Comments on: Digest This: Tuesday Food News

By: Rabbi Shmuel

Rabbi Shmuel — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:41:48 +0000

“that it’s possible to have a bite of meat every now and again and still identify as a vegetarian!” Really now? Canone “step out” and grab a Big Mac every now and then and still identify as kosher? perhaps we should have refinements like “kosher style” “faux kosher” “pseudo kosher” ditto for veggies!

but the reason I write is in response to the NY Times piece - they were not suggesting that the Chinese packing was more economically sound but that under certain conditions, more energy is expended replicating A instead of going to B. I understand they are building an indoor ski complex in Dubai - given the obscene energy input and ongoing energy committment to the project it would make much more sense to fly all the skiers in Dubai to the Alps (and I dare say to Idaho!)

What we do need is the tools to make the analysis - I have long been an advocate of disclosure on the “embedded energy” front but it’s a very tricky and elusive concept. But at least people are beginning to think about it!

By: Leah Koenig

Leah Koenig — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:17:47 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Alix - I didn’t know that. Though, Katzen is definitely still a veggie “icon” after all these years. Besides, as you and I know personally…

http://jcarrot.org/i-caved-in-to-turkey/
http://jcarrot.org/hazon-food-.....-the-goat/

…that it’s possible to have a bite of meat every now and again and still identify as a vegetarian!

By: Alix

Alix — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:25:11 +0000

Mollie Katzen may still be writing vegetarian cookbooks, but she’s admitted in print that she eats meat occasionally (I could care less about what she does, I just think it’s a bit misleading to say “Still veggie after all these years.”) The story is below.

http://features.us.reuters.com.....A4E63.html