Colorful Peppers

admin on Mon, 4th May 2009 11:00 am 



Did you know a bell pepper has more vitamin C than an orange? It’s true. It’s good to have color in your diet.

Chris Rowley on Tue, 5th May 2009 5:02 pm 



Michael and Kiki,
i thought Vegans didn’t eat anything with a face and I noticed you have tuna and salmon recipes???
Very nice website by the way.

admin on Wed, 6th May 2009 8:09 am 



We’re virtually vegan. We don’t eat eggs or diary. We have fish 2-3 times a month. I’ll probably have turkey on Thanksgiving.

Andrew Collins on Sun, 12th Jul 2009 10:34 am 



“We’re virtually vegan. We don’t eat eggs or diary. We have fish 2-3 times a month. I’ll probably have turkey on Thanksgiving.”

There are not different types, kinds or classes of vegans.

You are not vegan. You are health-conscious omnivores.

I’m glad for your decisions thus far, but your decision to create your own terminology, along with your lack of a clear decision not have turkey in the future, put you into the class of people known as “hypocritical self-deceivers.”

It would do you well to put as much thought into your eating habits as you have into the design of your website.

admin on Sun, 12th Jul 2009 10:52 am 



Hey Andrew. I nearly went for ‘Self-Deceivers.com’ as there are a lot of us out there. I see your point.

Whenever I hear the term ‘compassionate conservative’ I’m struck that people need to distinguish themselves from the other kind of conservative.

I do think I’ll be more successful getting people who never considered meatless meals to move closer to harmony with the universe than your (and many other vegans, I’m finding) approach to polarizing the issuer and generally pissing people off. Bless you for not eating meat, dairy, and honey. And thanks for the kind words about my design skills. You can see more of my work at http://www.papernapkin.com. Peace, bro.

Andrew Collins on Sun, 12th Jul 2009 11:48 am 



It is not polarizing to call “eating meat” exactly what it is “eating meat.”

I think your efforts are counter-productive for one central reason:

You efforts make a clear objective line (”don’t eat animals”) so subjective and blurry (”I feel it is okay to eat fish and turkey”) that the line ceases to exist.

You are allowing people, starting with yourself, through the use of jibber jabber which muddies the water, to merely feel better about being exactly as they are (people who eat/use animals), rather than putting truly honest labor towards being better than they are (people who don’t eat/use animals).

In effect you are destroying the line so that you can save it.

That is why you are receiving so much flak.

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