Not everyone likes the meat.
It seems as though Alexander Marra is the type to enjoy a great reaction, whether good or bad, and is going to look at the list of complaints about his article and smile, but I feel I have to state my opinion anyway.
Food Not Bombs is an anti-war organization that uses cooking and eating soup on Sunday afternoons as an activity during which people discuss our nation’s foreign policy. The soup is for anyone, but the homeless people voluntarily come to the “beautiful” park and the cooks welcome all, despite the fact that the homeless generally don’t vote or even have much of an opinion about happenings thousands of miles away. Food Not Bombs isn’t “just cheap;” all food is donated. If as you say “it wouldn’t be too costly to serve up a nice pot of Campbell’s hearty selection,” then perhaps you’d like to finance a weekly trip to the grocery store to purchase gallons of your choice soup (Campbell’s Chunky Beef Soup: $2.39/18 oz. can).
VCU is supposed to be a mecca of diversity but your belief that food cannot taste good without meat combined with the way you refer to these generous people as a “strange clan,” only show how uncultured and closed-minded you are. If you didn’t want to go to school with free thinkers or people who care about things other than their appearance, you should have gone to a little more of a trite college town, where pop-culture reigns and bums are non-existent.
Chad Greene
Also, I know that I can’t prove this one, but three friends and I have read your article and all of us, without any instigation have remarked that your “quotes” just seem made up.
