Not in my lunch box!

Vegan Lunch Box:

veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/

Who could get excited about a lunch box? Not I, nor are most Americans I suppose.

To be a vegan is analgous to being a militant athiest - as opposed to a vegetarian being analgous to an agnostic - you are so virtuous in your belief, you have to run around and try to convert everyone. There is no middle ground. Even if you use distorted propaganda, as this person does in "Why vegan?"

Yes, putting pictures of your kid's lunch box on a blog every day to show vegan diets can be relatively normal (actually, another misrepresentation, see below) is rather innovative, which goes a long way in Eric's Blog Reviews. But there are problems here.

First, I will interject my opinion. Humans are primarily herbervious animals - I say primarily. We need a bit of meat in our diet-maybe one helping a day, or two, if you count animal by-products. We were made so it is possible to injest meat. Some peoples, like Eskimos, have survived on an almost all-meat diet (but granted this is a very poor diet). Meat is not a poison for humans. Therefore, avoiding any and all meat and animal by-products results in some very malnurish humans - unless you have a degree in nutrition to figure out how to balance all this out (which most people do not have the time to get anyway). Vegetarians can have balanced diets without much education, but for vegans, it takes a lot of effort.

However, as many a person has said to many a teacher "you cannot grade on opinion" so I shall not do so. Instead, I will grade on other aspects of this blog.

Primarily, the fact that it is boring. For something designed to convert the unwashed, it does a poor job of doing so. For a long, long, time, there have been more exciting things to do than to look at a lunch box every day.

This can be overcome with clever writing and/or sarcasm. But, coming from a perspective of a person who is a product of the Tri-Cities (so-named because they try to be cities), an area about as exciting as Stockton, California, the ability to present exciting, or humorous, prose, does not present itself. Instead, it is dull and uninspiring.

If you presented an exciting topic with this writing style, you could get away with it and have people of differing viewpoints come to read your blog regularly. However, with this writing style, the only people you will preach to is the choir.

As I noted above, innovation in blogs gives high points. However, the inability to present boring subject manner in an entertaining format reduces that grade it should be given.

Grade: B+