Comments appalachiantransplant has made

  • Are you kidding me?  You're not even going to bother including at least ONE non-dairy ice cream?  Alright, Grist, just keep your fatheads in the sand and continue making excuses as to why you can't (read: won't) go vegan.  Ignore the research regarding the environmental impact of animal agriculture and continue to pat yourselves on the back for eating organic happy meat and driving your Priuses.


    For readers who care, Temptation Soy Ice Cream from Chicago Soy Dairy is wonderful, as is Good Karma "rice" cream.  I've also heard great things about the new hemp-based "ice cream" from Living Harvest called Tempt.

    On A tasting of seven organic ice cream flavors posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago 15 Responses

  • Thank you, mountainmaid.  Very well said.  You're right, as much as I want to ignore offensive generalizations such as Roberts' and just walk away from it, people like you and I and others who have commented to call out Roberts on his prejudice need to be here to help educate others in the movement.  The louder and more often we speak out, the more chance we have of being heard.

    On West Virginia celebrates the blessings of a coal-based economy posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago 27 Responses

  • Well said!  I am tired of hearing my home state bashed by environmentalists and seeing writers resort to what amounts to racism as humor.  We don't need jokes, we need the help of the environmental movement.  We can't beat Big Coal on our own, and that's the enemy, not the people of West Virginia.

    On West Virginia celebrates the blessings of a coal-based economy posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago 27 Responses

  • Wow, yet again, a Grist article delivers some disgusting classist "jokes" about my home state.  I don't care if you did grow up in TN, that doesn't make it right for you to bash other Appalachians.  I will no longer be a Grist reader.

    *Editing my comment to add a bit more:  Is it any wonder why more of my fellow West Virginians aren't involved in the environmental movement?  Environmentalists treat us like white trash or children, they make snide comments about us and look down their noses at us poor mountain people.  Making classist jokes about West Virginia DOES NOTHING TO HELP US.  Don't you understand that much of the citizenry of WV hates what Big Coal is doing to the state just as much as the rest of the country does?  We have been beaten down for years and the coal industry holds all the power.  It's an uphill battle for us.  Why don't environmentalists want to help rather than make jokes about our dental care?  (This article is the SECOND of its kind in recent months, by the way, and it is why I'm unsubscribing from Grist.  You can be insightful and informative and even funny without resorting to disgusting stereotypes and classist humor.  I'll get my environmental news elsewhere, thanks.)

    On West Virginia celebrates the blessings of a coal-based economy posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago 27 Responses

  • Very ignorant generalization

    Wow...did you really just call a group of people "white trash" based solely on their state of residence?  Are you aware of how ignorant that makes you sound and how classist that statement is?  Are you also aware that WV is a very economically depressed state and many of its residents cannot afford college?  Try walking a mile in their shoes and then call them white trash.  Perhaps you should think before you type next time.

    Be the change you wish to see.

    On Talking with voters in the Mountain State posted 1 year, 6 months ago 5 Responses