About three weeks ago, our plucky participants began a pledge period of less or no meat for 4 weeks. Why did they do it? In this blog entry we’re looking at the reasons some of these volunteers decided to change … Read more
Corkonians have changed over the past generation; for one thing, people eat out much more. There have been chippers and McDonalds for decades but now there’s a larger variety of convenience eateries. Supermarkets in Cork have gotten a greater variety … Read more
We’ve written several times about problems that arise during the Meat Pledge experiment (keeping a period of less or no meat for 4 weeks) both in reactions from others around them and within the participants themselves. But we have also … Read more
Today we’re going to talk about a taste treasure trove which is not yet as widely known as it could or should be. Jacob has by the third week of the experiment been missing the amount of meat he usually … Read more
We’ve had a comment on the discussion of ‘the hunger illusion’ in our earlier blog entry; that a transgression be viewed as a way of giving your body time, and thus not guilt-inducing. We all agree that feeling guilty is … Read more
Arthur Leahy has been a key figure in the Quay Coop since 1981, when it was founded. In his youth, Arthur describes himself as a left-wing hippy radical, very politically active in London from his teenage years until his mid-thirties. … Read more
In 1996, esteemed clinical psychologist George Weinberg wrote The Heart of Psychotherapy, a book which has been considered to be ground-breaking by many of his peers. In it, he describes a certain condition he coins; ‘the hunger illusion’. When a … Read more
Our valient volunteers have come to the half-way point in their meat pledge, and some are doing better than others. Today we’re just checking in to see how a few more of them are doing. Betty hasn’t noticed any hardship, … Read more
If you’ve been on Cook Street in Cork, then you’ve seen the sign with the old-style bicycle for Oscar’s Restaurant, run by Daragh Fitzgerald. Daragh has a background in retail and got restaurant experience by working for some years at … Read more
Navigating a less meat or meatless plege when other people are making the food can be tricky. As we wrote earlier, in order to get something other than salad at her work cafeteria, Sofie had to pick the bacon off … Read more