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
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
Our participants are well into their second pledge week, so let’s see how they’re handling the change in diet: Malene has found that it isn’t hard to make vegetarian or fish meals for herself and her family: Beyond the initial … 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
”Your children are not your children; they are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself”, wrote the great philosopher Kahlil Gibran. Well, any parent can tell you that children definitely see things their own way, and part of … Read more
Might be time for a little more clarification of the Meat Pledge experiment and project. We are two Danish students involved in project dNmark (http://dnmark.org/?page_id=5&lang=en). We’re in the process of researching aspects of meat-consumption, and primarily looking at the stories, … Read more