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...Kupferberg's idea for a "collective decision to cut back meat production"--if he is talking about this country, then I wonder how far in the future he imagines this process will occur. The oil-producing countries of the Third World started collecting a fair price for oil because they put together an effective cartel; not because the U.S. collectively decided to buy at higher prices. In the case of food, if the Third World is to get some of the protein it needs there will necessarily be less meat for Americans. How will this happen? Meat consumption will decrease...
...Meat Alone" (Dec. 19, by Seth Kupferberg): Why is it that what The Crimson serves up in the way of political analysis always smacks of sour grapes? The taste is annoying, especially to one who finds himself agreeing with the politics but not the petulance...
While Mr. Kupferberg is rubbing our noses in the futility of our efforts, he might reflect that political consciousness without an alternative program in which ordinary people can participate is equally futile. This is true even of the prodigiously informed, finely turned consciousness attained in Harvard's History and Literature department, in which I believe Mr. Kupferberg is a concentrator...
...someone who cooks his own in a Radcliffe co-op, may I suggest that Mr. Kupferberg rethink his opposition to the cheese souffle, the rice and bean casserole, and the friendly omelette? Who knows? He might even decide to live in a co-op like Radcliffe's Jordan K, where, as in the real world, switching to five meaty days a week would be no cutback. Adam Glass...
...oppose Mayer's proposal. --Seth Kupferberg...