PETA Kinda Likes Berkeley
Cal has made PETA’s top-ten list of most vegetarian-friendly schools in the U.S. Visitors to the PETA website voted in this poll, which does not take into consideration vegetarian options off-campus. One site claims that Berkeley would have topped the list if off-campus food had been considered.
PETA explains that
It makes sense that a school integral to the protest movements of the ’60s would continue the legacy by standing up to corporate meat mongers. Students’ brains are fueled by Tofu Scramble, Vegan Meatloaf, and Hazelnut Cutlets, among other fabulous foods.
Cal came in at number eight on the top-ten list, behind such notables as Humboldt State, Yale, and NYU.
It’s really unfortunate that they judged the vegetarian options of each campus on solely DC food. Sure, Crossroads is pretty neat-o for a campus dining facility, but have you tried the tofu scramble? If the poll had included off-campus and co-op food, Berkeley surely would have been numero uno. You’d be amazed with how many different ways co-opers can consume tofu.
Considering the response to PETA’s display in the spring which compared the treatment of animals to African-Americans being lynched, it is nice of them to include us on the list.
Comment by Christopher Page — November 28, 2006 @ 11:16 pm
Beef. It’s what’s for dinner!
Comment by anon54 — November 29, 2006 @ 8:44 am
I would rather eat the corporate meat monger fillet than the PETA bean monger tofu.
Comment by Paul — November 29, 2006 @ 8:57 am
Jesus, I’m sick of eating tofu at my co-op. Half the time I’m forced to be a grass eater because we don’t have any meat.
Comment by Nathan — November 30, 2006 @ 12:50 am