To everybody angry at me for being myself on this site and throwing out some verbal lashings at the "foodie vegan" community, sorry. Kinda. Actually, not much.

These Let Live events are not about Food Fight being successful, or us making money, or ego stroking each other through shared respect of our own feel good consumerism. They are about people needing to get off their asses. This has to be a movement of participation or it is headed nowhere. Not saying you have to protest, or home demo, or anything in particular, but you need to be doing your part. And, sorry, just eating healthy isn't gonna cut it for the animals whose lives are at stake.

Pissed at us? Don't like our tone? Don't shop here, I would honestly rather go out of business and work on something that has some greater impact, rather than try to constantly coax along a community that should care enough to participate, but doesn't because it hasn't been bribed into doing so yet. Take that energy you saved by not shopping with us, and put it elsewhere into something that matters.

Folks need to try and understand how frustrating it is, to consistently have a handful of people turn out to issue-based activities that can make us all more effective advocates for the animals. And then have hundreds show up to sample the newest vegan snack. Or to have people change the subject from something that matters to, "When are you getting more nacho cheese in stock?" It's a real momentum killer. It's depressing as fuck to see burnout coming not from fighting the bad guys, but from dealing with the good guys.

Sorry if any thing I've said seemed directed at any single person, I know it's not the SweetPea brunch's fault, I was eating there too. The delicious food had nothing to do with me going or not going.

Sincerely,
Chad (not Let Live, not the rest of the elitist mini-mall, not even other folks at Food Fight, just me.)