Word: meatlessness
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...suggest that Harvard's meatless days are designed to soothe middle-class consciences is as valueless as pointing out that The Crimson's insistent demarcation of the true political path, be it ever so impossible to tread, is designed to soothe the conscience of Marxist boy-editors. It may be correct, but even if it isn't, who cares...
...from "encouraging people to ignore issues" such as the politics of famine, meatless days would raise the issues simply because, unlike so many other student sponsored causes, the proposal if carried out would actually affect student life. It would be a significant change in consumption patterns, not a symbolic gesture comparable to skipping Christmas dinner as is implied. For this very reason its future...
Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, expresses anger at student opposition to meatless days, and orders the Food Services Department to serve turkey tetrazzini every day for a month, "to break them." Half a million teamsters and Mayer are laid off. Bok announces that Sen. Peter I. Dominick (R-Colo.), "an expert on Third World nutrition," will fill Mayer's chair...
...single glass of juice to ease their fast. At the University of Notre Dame, 1,100 people sit down to a dinner of rice and tea-and donate more than $1,500 to the hungry. In Needham, Mass., an ecumenical group of 50 families commit themselves to eating three meatless meals together each week for six months...
...usually a complete fast but a general cutback in the amount of food eaten. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations will launch an antihunger campaign this month that includes, among other things, a recommendation for "un-dinners," complete with programs and speakers but no food. Perhaps curiously, considering their meatless Friday tradition, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Washington last month recommended two days of fasting each week but did not enjoin Catholics to abstain from meat on those days. The reason: they had been reminded by Bishop Edward O'Rourke of Peoria, 111., that...