*boing*boing* So is everyone calling Matt "The Butcher" now? I love it when nicknames stick...

Yep. Thanks for it.

It's the best compliment I could ask for. In England, my nickname was "MASBO," after the acronym for one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Social_Behaviour_Order

But I prefer "The Butcher." It reflects my development as a person.

Saint Cupcake has vegan cupcakes...

Sometimes I fantasize about Matt Davis wearing a butcher's apron... and nothing else. Yum!

I love vegan food but those ridiculous armband things that girl is wearing really make me lose my appetite.

My friend has this amazing vegan food blog with pictures and everything if you want some more recipes:
http://food.pinkhairedgirl.com/
(Her new year's resolution for 2006 was to cook more and eat out less and it lead to her becoming vegan and starting this rather popular food blog.)

matt should come over and borrow my copy of Welfare Ranching edited by George Weurthner, or the Mercury should interview Wuerthner. The UN came out this year saying there is too much livestock production in the world, and the NYT had a nod to the UN report on their editorial page a few weeks back. Anyways, the book W.R. will give you another side of the meat story. Dont worry, there's lots of pictures to see and not tooooo much writing.

I think that food fight cant see the plus of having their ad across from the story is sad.It seems like the best place to have their ad, and herbivore,etc.
Like that one letter to the editor said, he was a meat eater but thought the article did more service to vegans.. And people dont know, or think about their meat and how it is raised and killed at all. This sheep was going to die anyway from this class (which i think is kind of stupid), but maybe this sheeps life/death will galvanize a lot of people to think about what they are eating and why. I am happy about all the dialogue coming out of the story. Ive been working on a film about wolves for over 8 years, and its almost a film about cows and sheep more so, from all I have learned about livestock production and the Livestock world.
The whole point is dialogue food fight, and you got one going now. Where does the fight come in in your name? Stand up and fight like a vegan!
I applaud all sides spoken, keep talking it out.

Wow, what a maelstrom this Matt/Sheep/Vegan Food Fight has turned into.

Scott, go vegan for a week and I am hopeful that you will report on it with interviews with vegans in town, etc. Anyway, I will personally come over to the Mercury's office with some vegan chocolate mousse and vegan Spanish stew for you. Also, don’t forget all the vegan junk food treats such as the vegan corn dog – my personal favorite.

However, I agree with Vanessa. It would be great to see some more dialogue about this from all sides. Dialogue is healthy. I personally would like to hear more from the Food Fight folks about their politics and philosophy in general. I don’t know much about them.

Finally, I heard that there is a vegetarian (Buddhist run) Dim-sum place in deep SE Portland. Anyone know of this place?

Are you talking about Bay Leaf? Adam wrote a lovely post about it last week.

(p.s. - Matt's the one going vegan... Scott practically is already.)

I dunno. I think there is a chinese vegetarian place out past 82nd that does dim sum, but I'm not certain.

So Bay leaf does dim sum?

Van Hahn
(503) 788-0825 / 8446 SE Division
Cheap vegetarian Vietnamese food run by Buddhist volunteer folk.

(from the foodfight site - pdx guide page.

Vegans are who they are because they don't believe in killing living creatures, right? So are they really faux-vegan if they make death threats?

It's like pro-lifers threatening abortion doctors... and just as stupid.

Vegans... we get it, you don't believe eating meat is right. Fine. Now understand that most indigenous people around the world are/were omnivores. If you travel, you may want to celebrate their native foods or at least respect that most citizens of this world eat meat. This isn't just a case of America-is-a-young-country lack of forethought. Nor is it some hipster irony that presents animal slaughter for scrutiny.

Get real. Or get bent.

TKRUEG - Your simplistic generalizations do not speak well for your cognitive capabilities.

That being said, you have obviously picked the proper forum to wax fantastic. Please continue. Your struggles at reason and the half baked conclusions you arrive at are a source of much amusement and pleasure.

>>> (vegan/killer)

I'm glad Matt is known as Matt the Butcher, as opposed to Pat Butcher.

She is a famous chav (see Matt's definition for "Asbo"), an old drag-queen lookalike character in EastEnders, a very popular English soap opera.

In real life, actress Pat St Clement is a very pro-gay rights lesbian.

In the programme, she's just an old slapper with bad taste in fashion.

See link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/eastenders/characters/character_content/character_pat_e.shtml

PS - if ever any pictures of Masbo - sorry, Butcher - find their way into Portland, there are many people this side of the pond that would love to get their grubby paws on them.

PS - I meant to say pictures of Masbo wearing just an apron and nothing else ... not just general pictures of the Croydon Superstar!