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December 13, 2016
Vegetarianism and Choices
I have a friend at Wheaton who I rarely see eat anything in Chase other than salad. She isn’t on a diet, she just hates the food that much. I decided that her opinions might be valuable in a discussion of our Dining Services. Yesterday evening, we had dinner so that I could ask about her thoughts. She didn’t have many positive things to say. I won’t list her complaints as most were not particularly conducive to improvement. I chose to focus on her suggestion for improvement: wider selection of food.
“There’s usually only one or two options for meals other than salad.”
So I asked, what kinds of things did she want, specifically?
“More vegetarian options.”
A few weeks ago, Sahilia made a similar complaint on this blog. In fact, it’s a complaint I’ve heard from both vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. It’s made me wonder if Wheaton Dining Services is too reliant on meat as a main course.
According to a Vegetarian Times poll, about 3% of Americans are vegetarians, while about 5% eat vegetarian while out of the house. This is a rather small percentage, though likely no smaller than the number of people suffering from allergies.
It brings us back, I think, to an idea we’ve mentioned once or twice in class: people want choices. It makes me wonder, to what extent are extensive food choices possible on a small campus like Wheaton?
I found this post to be very interesting because my cousin is a vegetarian. She has visited Wheaton on several occasions and each time has asked about vegetarian options. She is used to a much larger campus where there are whole stations dedicated to vegetarian options. It makes me wonder as well to what extent can options such as vegetarian and other dietary choices be met at a small campus. Or is it that if you want to have these choices you have to go to a much larger school. Its a very interesting question.
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