Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Enviro PETA says Atlanta's pretty darned veg-friendly
Posted by Gwynedd Stuart @gwynnstu on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:06 PM
Here's a totally ridiculous blurb from PETA's website:
4. Atlanta, Georgia
Life for Georgia's vegans is increasingly peachy, with restaurants such as Café Sunflower (offering stuffed mushroom caps in a miso mushroom sauce), Green Sprout (presenting veggie pork with tofu and Szechuan sauce), and Ria's Bluebird (serving up Southwest tofu scramble with veggies). The South will rise again—and ask for seconds.
You see what they did there? They said life is "peachy" because Georgia's the Peach State. You get it?
Anyway, bloggers in San Francisco and New York — which ranked seventh and ninth, respectively — are ticked about where their cities ended up on the list. The San Francisco Chronicle whines of the snub, "We practically invented the vegetarian movement, and now you say San Francisco is only the seventh most vegetarian- and vegan-friendly city in the United States?" Robert Sietsema at the Village Voice says, "New York's low position comes as something as a shock, since the metropolitan area probably has more vegetarian Indian restaurants alone than all the vegan and vegetarian restaurants in Washington, DC, Albuquerque, NM, and Portland, OR combined," and asks, "Does Albuquerque even qualify as a city?" Ouch.
Oh, and, If ranking higher than NYC and San Fran wasn't reward enough, there's more ...
"The mayor and tourism bureau of each city that ranked among the top 10 in either category will receive a framed certificate and a letter of congratulations."
A FRAMED CERTIFICATE?! Score!
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And they didn't even mention Dynamic Dish! I'm a carnivore, and even I know that's one of Atlanta's vegan/veggie highlights.
Also, I'm sure NYC has more, but Atlanta does have a prodigious number of vegetarian Indian joints. Good ones.
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This is fabulous!!These animal organizations are getting very smart. There is a new pro-animal site geared towards the press--totally free--that is massively distributing their pro-animal video. The video is showing up on MTV, NBC, etc. A CNN story that just aired is at http://freeanimalvideo.org/about
I love the taste of a good red-blooded animal, myself. Seems GA is a pretty good place for us carnivores too.
As a vegetarian who lived in Atlanta for three years and the SF Bay for four, this is bunk. No way there's more vegetarian restaurants in Atlanta than SF. One wonders how these lists are even created, since no one can live in all these different cities at once to get a fair assesment. Congrats on your certificate just the same.
--a bitter San Franciscan
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