Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!occrsh!uokmax!tegarvin
From: tegarvin@uokmax.UUCP (Theodore E Garvin)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Vegetarians in the Workplace
Message-ID: <992@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 04:51:12 GMT
References: <22295@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: tegarvin@uokmax.UUCP ()
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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In article <22295@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jwl@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (James Wilbur Lewis) writes:
>The recent "Religious Intolerance" discussion got me thinking about 
>discrimination and harassment at work.  It occurred to me that there is an 
>injustice being perpretrated which dwarfs even the celebration of religious 
>holidays in the workplace!
 
[Long screed about his workmates' disgusting habit of eating dead animals.]
 
>Of course, I'd hate to promote the image of vegetarians as self-righteous,
>intolerant rabble-rousers.  In a spirit of compromise, I will not embark
>on a campaign to rid the workplace of meat comsumption: all I ask is that
>all references to "meat" in its various forms be replaced by "non-vegetable
>protein supplements".  Is that so difficult a thing, to accomodate my
>preju...er, preferences...and make vegetarians feel a bit more welcome
>in the workplace?   If you simply *must* eat "meat", at least eat it at
>home, where I won't be offended by it.
 
[Kzinti mode on]
 If you leaf-eaters simply must consume those disgusting vegetable products,
then at least have the decency to do so in private.  One man's fish is
another man's poisson, don't you know?
[Kzinti mode off]

(Don't flame me; I'm in satiric mode...)
 
>-- Jim Lewis
>   U.C. Berkeley
>


Ted Garvin                "The graveyards are filled with men who
tegarvin@uokmax.UUCP            thought they could not be replaced."
                                          -- Corwin of Amber
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