The Magical Color of Food

I wonder what the most apetizing color is? Yeah, I mean what color is the most apealing to eat. I am sure there have been psychological type studies on it. There is probably personal preference involved, but there are probably some common trends. I remember as a kid I loved eating blue things--blue popsicles, blue slushies, blue poptarts, blue oatmeal. One of the greates marketing moves of all time would have to be when M&M's replaced their tan with blue.

Cougar Eat Price Ceilings

Apparently there is a policy here at BYU that the cougar eat food court cannot charge more than $6.00 (net of tax) for one menu item. Consequently, i would like to share on cougar eat steal: Tomosito's combo #2. It is a calzone, pasta, breadstick, salad, and drink for only $5.99. Such a feast would usually be worth more than this, but this is as much as they can charge! The economics department might decry this decision of BYU, but i am ejoying taking advantage of it.

Go Barak!

This week i dont feel like talking about food. I just want to give a shout out to my man Barak Obama. He has rocked in this weeks contest, and i think we are on our way to having our first black president. He is the next JFK...and for you conservatives i mean that in a good way.

My Struggles with Vegetarianism, Part II

I had mentioned in my previous blog that after struggling internally with justifying eating meat that i was finally able to develop a new personal philosophy on the matter. In this unimportant blog i will expand--as if anyone cares. The impetus that spurred my second guessing was the great feeling of discomfort i was feeling. I realized that if Heavenly Father wanted me to give up this heinous practice of eating meat the personal revelation telling me to do so would be a peaceful confirming feeling--the exact opposite of what i was feeling. Also, if eating meat was such a bad thing then the prophets would be more vocal about it. It is probably a higher law, like the law of consecration, that someday we will have to live by, but not now--the lamb and the lion are not going to be lying down together when we are chasing them with our shotguns! So i knew it was not wrong, per se, to kill animals quickly and painlessly for meat, but i needed to reconcile how i could ethically eat meat which supports the industry that is soooo cruel to the animals, and I KNOW that that is morally wrong. But then my meager economics training kicked in; the benefit i would lose from not eating meat would be greater than the benefit to the cause of better treatment of animals, so it would be wrong for me to make this radical decision. If there ever was a big vegetarian movement that could impact the industry then it would be the moral thing for me to join, but there is not. If i ever get elected to office i will be an animal rights activist. I felt good about this conclusion; i wasn't capitulating my morals, but rather trying to receive guidance in the task of reconciling my logos and pathos with the proper authority's ethos. To see an eye opening video on the depravity of the industry go to, but be warned that it is pretty graphic. http://www.meat.org/.

This week i would like to talk about an experience I had last Thursday night. I am obsessed with politics, and a lean to the left, so i occasionaly enjoy attending the BYU Democrat meetings. Well this week it was combined with the BYU Vegetarians. I went just out of curiousity and had not intention of being swayed. It turns out the presentation was by a professor of philosophy here at the Y (specializing in logic!) who is an avid animal rights activist, and needless to say a vegetarian. His presentation was entitled "Mormonism and Vegetarianism." I wont go into detail, but he was good. He adroitly used Logos (his specialty) , Ethos (he had extended quotations from the prophets and scriptures), and Pathos (we watched a video called "Meet Your Meat" which showed how the meat industry worked) to all try to convince us that vegetarianism is the only moral pathway. I tell you what i left that meeting disturbed. I was convinced that i had to be a vegetarian to be an ethical person, but i realized how much that would inconvenience my life; meat is such a huge part of our culture. Logically and emotionaly i was convinced, but vicserally i felt uneasy. The next two days I was a vegetarian, only in the interim while i reworked a new philosophy on "animal rights" that felt right to my core. Happy to say i reworked a new philosophy, and i am back to meat consumption. What that philosophy is? Well that will have to wait for another blog!