Nerd News: Food Fight at Bowdoin

Kudos, I say, to the students who protested by having a barbecue outside!

Controversy erupted at Bowdoin College last week after the campus’s main dining facilities went completely meatless for dinner as part of “Meatless Monday,” a national nutritional awareness campaign started at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Dozens of students held an impromptu barbecue outside one facility in protest. Two other students sold McDonald’s cheeseburgers while simultaneously raising funds for a local humane society. Another group of students ate buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken inside the dining hall. Opinion both for and against the awareness campaign has been published in The Orient, Bowdoin’s student newspaper. 

These days, veggie options are standard at most colleges -- and some provide for vegan, Kosher or other dietary choices as well. While the range of choices isn't controversial, removing meat options is something else.

Dude, don't you know how expensive meal plans are on a college campus?  Or how they're often mandatory if you live on campus in the dorms?  I'd be annoyed too!  Sure, go ahead and give veggie-vores their options, but don't you take my carnivore ones!