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Meanie cow-raping school district fires bold rebel for secretly teaching veganism in art class, instead of, um, art.

The former teacher, Dave Warwak, leaves no news article combox untouched in his quest, under the name inslidedotcom.

"teach them how Artists shape and guide morals in society With this knowledge, they can deal with the real world Use their art to create positive change Live longer Heal the earth I model what I teach I have been railroaded Posts removed You celebrate I appeal You pay Meat and Dairy laughs I cry"

Poetry.

And as his combox name might suggest, he has a website.

Yes, this is the man I want to teach MY children about art.

Edit: I turned off comment notification (ow, my inbox) so if anyone has any links to this guy wanking elsewhere (since he's wanked in two news articles at least, I'm sure there's more and will be more) please drop a comment in joye's journal and I'll edit the post. Thanks.

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wrongly_amused
2007-10-11 03:16 am UTC (link)

The heavily preserved, less healthy canned stuff? Yeah. Fresh produce? Eh, not so much. A lot of the stuff can be impacted by seasonal or export changes. It costs about $3-4 to buy a bag of cut lettuce at my Giant Eagle, and that bag of lettuce has half the calorie count of that $8 worth of meat unless I buy more items to put on it. I'd think it easy to make up the difference monetarily by trying to build up the daily calorie needs in vegetables/fruits alone when you could supplement it with a protein or dairy product.

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	hallidae 2007-10-11 03:35 am UTC (link)
	Seasonal changes. I swear to God, this (and a soy allergy) is what keeps me from attempting vegan. Nearly all of my favorite fruits are sold in this area only during particular times of the year, and it's frustrating as hell, because when they are sold, they're massively expensive. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

napalmnacey
2007-10-14 05:00 pm UTC (link)

We have that problem here in Western Australia. Bananas go on random spikes in price (luckily I don't eat bananas cause, as amusing as they look, sound and feel, the taste and texture makes me balk) and just recently tomatoes were eight dollars a kilo. (That's roughly four dollars a pound, and there's currently only ten cents difference between the American and Australian dollar). The price went back down to four again, but it's prompted Mum to try to grow her own tomatoes.

Australia is having serious drought problems at the moment, so fresh produce is not always the cheapest option in our area of the world. Then again, neither is meat. So the vegans, vegetarian and omnivorous folks are screwed, doesn't matter what you put into your mouth.

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warrioreowyn
2007-10-12 05:30 am UTC (link)

But buying pre-cut lettuce isn't exactly cutting costs. And most calories are more likely to come from grains/legumes than from veggies, the veggies are more for other nutrients and roughage. (I don't expect that it would be easy (or healthy!) for anyone to manage living solely off vegetables and fruits.)

I was thinking more of grains and legumes, plus stuff like carrots and celery and bananas (and potatoes and onions) which you can buy for basically nothing, supplemented with whatever's seasonal and reasonably priced. I'm not saying that it would be a fun or exciting diet, and you couldn't pay me to eat vegan, but lack of money doesn't preclude it; rather the opposite.

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