[47] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: Food Fact Flyer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Tue Mar 1 00:53:55 1994
To: espiekos@MIT.EDU
Cc: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 28 Feb 94 23:32:53 -0500.
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 94 00:52:52 EST
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
> Here comes the tricky part. We have all seen that look on people's faces
> when you tell them you're a vegetarian. Many people seem to expect all
> vegetarians to be vocal, pushy radicals and that you are going to launch into
> a tirade about how the whole world is going to end tomorrow if we don't all
> switch immediately to a diet consisting entirely of tofu. This *really* turns
> many people off, and they will just tune us out if we come on too strongly.
> The goal is to make people think without getting into their faces.
You're doing the exact opposite with the flyer: you're throwing statistics
(which people read as "lies, damn lies, and statistics") in their faces and
giving them nothing substantial to think about. I would also disagree that
"many people seem to expect all vegetarians to be vocal, pushy radicals" since
virtually everyone who knows me respects my vegetarian habits.
I don't understand the intention of this flyer.
> I think we should have
> a comment period, say until midnight Sunday, before anyone hangs any of these
> because they have the vsg name on them and, therefore, reflect on all of us.
Why put VSG's name on it at all, instead of, say, ARF or even SAVE? ARF
is a political group; VSG is not. VSG was created simply to support and
encourage people who already are vegetarian or considering vegetarianism
(I think that was the original intention). VSG was not created to recruit
or persuade others to consider vegetarianism.
I would not want VSG's name appearing on a flyer like that.
+ Richard
