Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Vegetarianism

[areinert (areinert]

On Mon, 6 Feb 1995, Deborah Behrens wrote:

> > From: g.meltzer [at] qut.edu.au (Graham Meltzer)
> > Other cohousing communities I visited in Denmark had both kinds of meal
> > available at all common meals. It's a rather obvious way to handle the
> > situation and seemed to work well in all cases. I was always impressed with
> > the quality of these common meals. When people cook perhaps once a week or
> > for a week every few months, and they have close, open relationships with
> > the folk they cook for, then something special happens which ensures
> > everyone's tastes are accommodated. In each community, common meals were a
> > nightly affair, except over summer holidays, and they typically had
> > attendance rates of between 95 and 100%. 

I think WCG attendance is 30 - 60%.
> 
> > From: johobson [at] wheel.ucdavis.edu (Jeffrey O. Hobson)
> > The community is not vegetarian, but there is a requirement that all
> > community meals have a meat option.

Requirement that all community meals have a vegetarian option, though 
often they are vegetarian when the vegetarians are cooks.  No meat 
requirement then

> > 
>       How do groups handle cost differentials between 
>       vegetarian and meat meal options ?

Share and share alike.  Seems to me sometimes the meats more$, sometimes 
the exotic veg alternative is more $


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Ditto.  Good safe disclaimer.

Arne Reinert, WCG