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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Chow / Theater Vegetarians Rejoice!

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Sat, May 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM

The Belgian city of Ghent (pop. 594,582) has declared Thursdays meat-free:

Restaurants, canteens and schools will now opt to make vegetarianism the default for one day a week, and promote meat-free meals on other days as well.

In other Belgians: Jab Fabre's Orgy of Tolerance at On the Boards is already kicking up dust. The show—which involves competitive masturbation, sodomy with rifles, and a shopping-cart ballet—is playing this weekend and I'm already receiving emails and overhearing arguments about it.

Since theater is an impermanent medium, its major fight is against forgetting. Fabre has been declared a genius and a bore—sometimes by the same critic—but he is, at least, burning memories in peoples' brains.

(More about Orgy here, ticket information here.)

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I hereby declare every day to be Meat Day. I will eat meat and promote meat-based meals every day.

Posted by Dave M on May 16, 2009 at 2:08 PM

On the other hand, Belgium just also declared Double Meat Fridays, so it all balances out.

Posted by NapoleonXIV on May 16, 2009 at 4:09 PM

There is such a thing as noncompetitive masturbation? Huh.

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on May 16, 2009 at 4:35 PM

Humans who now live in a slightly more sustainable environment rejoice!

Posted by The BTB

on May 16, 2009 at 5:28 PM

Frites! Frites! Frites!

Posted by Chefgirl on May 16, 2009 at 7:37 PM

Awesome. I've always been bewildered at people who despair when all 1100 meals per year don't contain meat.

Posted by PedestrianMe

on May 16, 2009 at 10:39 PM

That's a great idea. Telling people they can't do something always results in the desired effect.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on May 17, 2009 at 8:49 AM

This is a good idea. We should do this here, but we'll probably have to wait a few years for our conservative society to catch up to Belgium. We need to stop forcing meat on schoolchildren first -- it's causing a myriad of public health problems and kids can't decide for themselves what a healthy diet is.

Posted by lizzie on May 18, 2009 at 8:17 AM