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The reason that most people are afraid of veggie folks could simply be that they

have never actually met one before. When I was a college senior at Kansas

State, I took a required ethics course, environmental of course, and my prof was

a young man, obviously not from Kansas. He was ethnically Jewish (the first I

had ever known), athiest by religion and veggie by what I thought was total

strangeness. Nine months later, I left for Peace Corps and began my own

personal journey into the land of the wierd. At the end of two years, I myself

had morphed into an athiest and had started the journey of becoming veggie. It

seems I could do nothing to change being ethinically Czek. A few weeks after

returning to Kansas, I bought my first Moosewood cookbook. I did it because I

saw how the land was being destroyed in this island paradise for a few burgers

for us to eat. I did it because I saw that my neighbors could live well and eat

meat only every week or so and even then, it was a tiny portion. I did it

because my mother was no longer cooking for me. I also did it because of the

few veggie resturants in the country and how the volunteers all flocked to them,

they were sooo good!

If I had met a veggie when I was a child, if I had been told that it was

possible, if I had been taught about the environment in school, if I had been

shown a nation of malnourished people.... ya maybe. But, most Americans have

not and will not be, ever. Angry veggies only allienate everyone else

further... so I bring yummy dishes, like my hummus artichoke wraps (Vegetarin

Times this year, with a few modifications) and go on. Maybe my being there,

eating beans, will influence the thinking of someone years down the road... you

never know.

Genie

 

 

 

 

 

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