I am writing to the moron who wrote the "what's hot/what's not" list in the last issue of gazette. In particular, I take issue with the part where you say that veal is “hot” and tofu is “not.” As well as with social activism on campus as a “not.”
First of all tofu is not "so over." It's not a trend like fashion or music; it’s a staple in the diets of compassionate people. Veal, on the other hand, is the diet of selfish, cruel people. Perhaps you are unaware of the suffering veal calves endure in order to yield the tenderest meat. Let me educate you. Veal calves are usually the products of continuous artificial insemination. Their mothers are impregnated so that they will continue producing milk. The calves are not allowed to feed from their mothers, as they naturally would, because the farmers sell the milk to you instead. In order to keep their flesh tender, the farmers prevent the calves from building any kind of muscle by keeping them in tiny stalls (in which they cannot turn around) and feeding them a diet so deficient in iron that they lick their own feces and urine in a feeble attempt to gain nutrients. Those calves who survive are cruelly transported and brutally slaughtered. This is not "hot."
In addition, social activism on campus has been "hot" since the 60's and is the best way to inspire change in our patriarchal, overproducing world. Based on the tuition freeze demonstration at the end of last year and the student support for the professors on strike, I would say that on Dalhousie's campus, student activism is hotter then ever.
I don't know whose views your piece was to represent, but it certainly wasn't that of the student body. Perhaps it was just your own opinion, in which case you are “not hot.”
