Bad Dining Experiences

by Kim W. Stallwood Posted on April 6, 2011

The Grumpy Vegan wrote here in 2006 about Why He Hates to Eat Out. A variety of bad experiences have over the years come to be known in the Grumpy Vegan household as BDEs–Bad Dining Experiences. Tonight, there’s been another BDE.

In Hastings at the (non-veg) Indian restaurant that is reputed by some to be the best in town I ordered a vegetable samosa and potato curry or Bombay Aloo. After eating most of the samosa a small hair was discovered on the plate. Trying to feel magnanimous a complaint was deferred from being made. The matter was let go off. During the consumption of the curry, however, another hair was discovered on the plate. Which is to say a 100 per cent success rate in achieving one hair in each dish ordered in one meal. A complaint was made and the cost of the dish was waived. By the way, both hairs were witnessed by dinner partner.

Yet another restaurant is added to the list that the Grumpy Vegan won’t return to.

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Scientific American Opposes Antibiotics in Pigs

by Kim W. Stallwood Posted on March 31, 2011
How can the threat to human health from eating charred dead pig seasoned with antibiotics be any clearer than how CBS News presents it in this cute graphic?

You know you’ve got to worry (or, at least, you should be) when scientists get anxious about something. Here’s the prestigious Scientific American magazine in an editorial expressing alarm about feeding low-dose antibiotics to pigs in factory farms.

For more than 50 years microbiologists have warned against using antibiotics to fatten up farm animals. The practice, they argue, threatens human health by turning farms into breeding grounds of drug-resistant bacteria. Farmers responded that restricting antibiotics in livestock would devastate the industry and significantly raise costs to consumers. We now have empirical data that should resolve this debate. Since 1995 Denmark has enforced progressively tighter rules on the use of antibiotics in the raising of pigs, poultry and other livestock. In the process, it has shown that it is possible to protect human health without hurting farmers.

Here’s the link to check out that smart CBS graphic.

You want drugs with that?

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