Jan

26

2010

Dear Student Westlaw Rep

Author: Fat Plaid Shirt

This is in response to your email this morning, regarding stopping by your table and being one of the first 40 people to receive a certain fast food companies “breakfast burrito.”  Rather than send this to you personally, I thought I’d save myself from being chewed out by our administration for being insensitive to the needs of any company that still employs law students, I’m posting this here at the corner, and maybe you’ll even see it!

re:  Westlaw Breakfast Table:

Would that be the same “fast food chain”  that is the largest producer/consumer/seller of dirty factory farmed hormone/antibiotic manipulated cheap ground up bleach soaked mash they alone term “meat?”?  Lest we leave out the part about keeping the South American farmers it “employs” in poverty, followed by the minimum wage employees who must touch and play with it in order to get it from there to our mouth, in order to provide us with a cheap dirty nutritionally deficient meal?    It’s safer to stay home and eat the dirt from my back yard, so thanks, but no thanks.  As up and coming attorneys. I’d like to think our research companies would be a little more socially responsible.  Couldn’t you have sent that fifty bucks to someone who can’t give their child breakfast and just given us another highlighter?

So dear readers, in case you didn’t figure it out, I have grown tired of giant corporations and their attempts to market their costly inefficient high priced junk.  I have made a conscious decision to be a little more socially responsible, and in doing so, apparently, pissed off some of my peers.  Sorry, but maybe since you are in law school you should pay a little more attention to who you receive “rewards” from, not to mention the crap you put in your mouth.

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4 Responses to “Dear Student Westlaw Rep”

  1. David Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 7:37 am

    I don’t condone not eating meat. I enjoy your blog, and I don’t always agree with what you write, but I do really like that you seem to be an intelligent individual with some sort of realistic convictions, and as an attorney, I respect that.
    I wish you well, and please, keep writing, I’ll keep reading.

  2. fat-plaid-shirt Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 7:38 am

    Thanks for reading, and I assure you, I will not quit writing any time soon!

  3. Laurie Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 11:59 am

    I really liked this post. Like yourself, I am trying to eat more responsibly. I am not a vegetarian, but I choose to pay higher prices for meat whose origins I know. Breaking the fast food habit was really difficult for me. And after a few weeks of paying high prices for organic meats and free-range eggs (I know that they are all the things they claim because I know the farmers), I eat a lot less meat. But when I say anything, I and my opinions have been brushed off as hippie (yeah, a hippie that wears Ann Taylor, no offense to hippies, but not really) or a food Nazi. These comments were in response to “I don’t eat that because…” Not “You shouldn’t eat that because…”

    It’s very frustrating.

  4. Fat Plaid Shirt Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    I agree,I have also completely given up soda. I still love coffee, but if I can’t have that or tea I have water. The more I learn about our food, the more I can’t ignore it anymore.

    On another note, thanks for reading!

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