I was not familiar with Chu Minh. The Stranger pages linked are ... interesting.

Looking at the King County web site referenced, it looks like they have continued to fail inspections as recently as last spring, but have been able to correct the violations upon reinspection.

This article works both as a parody of vegans, and as the views of a vegan. Remarkable.

"So now that you're all gung-ho about veganism, where can you get some good food?"

Why does this piece only mention restaurants? Why not encourage people to make their own dishes? Why not also mention places like Vegan Haven, the small vegan grocery that carries many items not found at WF/TJ/Safeway/etc?

I realize that veganism is primarily a religious thing, but if you're mainly concerned about the practical impact on the environment, you can just cut down your meat intake, you don't need to stop eating it altogether.

@3: Why not encourage people to make their own dishes?

Do you care about the planet? Just like it's wasteful for everyone to commute in their own cars, it's similarly wasteful for everyone to cook in their own kitchens. Shopping for ingredients, refrigerating, and cooking use up enormous quantities of fossil fuels, not to mention the resources wasted on building everyone their own special private kitchen.

It's far more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly to eat at restaurants or other communal kitchens.

@5: Veganism != Jainism.

True. Veganism is it's own religion, although in some cases it's just a cover story for an eating disorder.

"It's your protection against other people's apathy, inertia, and sarcasm. Your words need to slice through other people's impediments and illogic like a hot knife through butter."

Has this ever actually worked for you? Playing the act of a strident vegan tends to turn people off. Just being a normal person who is also a vegan around others tends to result in the same level of information exchange without being overtly threatening to other people's ideas, which people tend to take as an attack on themselves and then double down on their existing beliefs.

@4: "It's far more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly to eat at restaurants"

Stats to back that up?