Rating: ★★★★★
Reviewer: Mark Epstein
Themed as a “Vegetables are People Too” event, the annual conference of the “People for the Ethical Treatment of Vegetables” celebrates the all meat and dairy lifestyle through an initial wine and food cleansing of all vegetable appetites that is followed by the traditional “Second Dinner” celebration. Second Dinner literally pushes the vegetables through and out of the body using the lubricating fats of land and sea creatures to erase the memory of the ritual wine-paired vegetable slaughter. First dinner reminds us that a diet of creatures who cannot roam is an unsportsmen-like reaping of rooted life that cannot run, hide or defend itself.
The Annual conference is the opposite of a fast. Participants continuously consume food and wine while conscious, sleep and then resume eating early the following morning. Participants leave without a trace of vegetable or fruit fiber in the GI Tract and with a clean conscience knowing that they have only consumed those foods that can run, fly or swim away.
Carlos’ aptitude and enthusiasm for this event is truly inspiring and possibly infectious in recent years. His example (aside from his occasional lapses into exercise) sets the tone to turn the “fruit of the beast” into an un-rooted feast. The feast occurs at the very end of the Fall and celebrates the end of the vegetable Holocaust and the coming of the season of non-vegetable protein. It is truly an honor to share this moving, primarily spiritual event with Carlos, Alan and Alex as we celebrate dining as men did before recorded human history.
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