Two more days left for our plege project, but the work will indeed continue and we are still very happy to start a pledge period with new volunteers! For those who have just discovered this blog, Meaty Matters is part … Read more
For many days, we’ve been talking on Meaty Matters about our 9 pledge participants, volunteers who are willing to eat less or no meat for 4 whole weeks, and to tell us all about it. Actually they’ve done quite well, … Read more
”Killing a large animal is lot of work, the nervous system does not stop immediately and it can even be dangerous. Cutting it apart is grueling. You’re taking the legs and the shoulders, etc. but there’s still a frame that … Read more
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