I can’t imagine how much fun it must have been to walk around the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory and ask rural Vermonters about this. PETA maintains that if we really cared about animal welfare, we’d be drinking breast-milk ice cream: Mama’s Milk Ice Cream, Anyone? By JOHN CURRAN – 19 hours ago WATERBURY, [...]
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The new lactation sensation
Posted in Geography, Political Drivel, Writing, tagged animal rights, animal welfare, animals, Ben and Jerry's, breast milk, breast milk ice cream, breast pumps, breasts, cow's milk, cows, Holsteins, ice cream, ice cream factory, lactation, PETA, political correctness, Vermont, Vermonters, Waterbury on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cultural capitalism
Posted in Political Drivel, tagged " western massachusetts, "cultural elite, amherst, amherst college, blue label, comfort, cultural capital, cultural capitalism, Dartmouth, dartmouth college, ebola, proletariat, townie, townies, umass, umass girls, undergraduates, us news and world report on September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dartmouth College is just across the river and I have a couple friends enrolled, so I meet undergraduates from time to time when I’m in the area. When they hear I’m from the area (a “townie”), instead of being interested, they act uncomfortable – presumably from being in such close proximity to a member of [...]