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Is it true that meat is not available on Mondays? How restrictive/inconvenient is this?
Some people that go to several University of California campuses claim that it is really horrible. It does sound really miserable there.
If meat is not available in the dining halls, where could I get 2 pounds of fresh, well cooked meat conveniently and cheaply on Mondays?
I can adapt to any social or academic environment, but I refuse to be malnourished.</p>
<p>You can take a look at the menus using this link:
[HUDS:</a> This Week’s Menu](<a href=“HUDS: This Week's Menu”>HUDS: This Week's Menu)</p>
<p>believe me
not eating meat for a day will not make you malnourished
vegetarians do it everyday</p>
<p>Thanks, smoda.</p>
<p>I was quite scared for a second. There’s bacon and eggs for breakfast and chicken for lunch and dinner. I’ll still complain. 
There’s only one meat for breakfast. There aren’t any organic meat.</p>
<p>Not eating meat for one day is detrimental to my goals. I try to be the strongest I can be mentally and physically. Without meat, my metabolism drops and I would be unproductive for the whole day. Without meat, I cannot focus seriously on my schoolwork or my physical exercises. Lack of focus = lack of progress. Without meat, I would not be getting enough protein per day to recover from my daily activities. I’ve yet to see a vegetarian in really good shape. I’m sure it’s possible, but you’d have to be a genetic freak and/or take your nutrition insanely seriously and spend more time and money than necessary on food and/or take steroids.
If you are serious about your health and not constrained in some other way, there’s no reason you would want to be a vegetarian. For the record, I eat way more fruits and vegetables than any vegetarian I know. 2 lbs of random raw fruits/vegetables, 12oz of V8, a decent portion of cooked vegetables, and 1/2 to 1 quart of orange juice per day. [/rant]</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m glad that there are meats on Monday, but the list still sucks. Guess I’ll have to buy my own supplies and learn to cook…</p>
<p>That menu looks delicious. Way better than the crappy Oxford menu I saw in the UK.</p>
<p>I will also add that Cambridge has a powerful draw to it. My daughter heads there for all kinds of off-campus food any time and any day of the week. She’s on a sushi kick at the moment and has discovered that she can buy sushi in Lamont (one of the Harvard libraries) as well as a restaurant in town.</p>
<p>A great off campus monday night solution is Fire and Ice. I have yet to go there but my son, Tufts grad, went there all the time and my daughter heads there occasionally. My recollection is that it is all you can eat and gives student discount on Monday nights with your college ID. [url=<a href=“http://www.fire-ice.com/]Fire+Ice[/url”>http://www.fire-ice.com/]Fire+Ice[/url</a>]</p>
<p>The last thing I will say is that my daughter is not really impressed with the dining at Harvard but that is not the reason she chose to go there.</p>
<p>^^I assume Oxbridge has similar food and the food at Cambridge was not especially appealing. But there were nice restaurants all around that I could eat at instead.</p>
<p>I don’t eat meat for 40 days every year. I never really notice it. And I always feel guilty about deciding not to eat meat because I don’t eat that much of it anyway. I hate steak, I dislike hamburgers, I quickly tire of poultry, etc.</p>
<p>My friend received a full scholarship to Harvard but refused to matriculate because of Meatless Mondays. </p>
<p>It simply isn’t worth it. Rumor has it that at meals they make you eat… VEGETABLES. Some kids were never the same by the time they graduated.</p>
<p>^ Your friend might have gotten a FA package but not a full scholarship. Harvard does not give scholarships.</p>
<p>smoda61, I think Saugus might be joking.</p>
<p>Grouptheory,
Obviously, then, Harvard isn’t the college for you. Fortunately, there are plenty of colleges where you could eat meat to your heart’s content. :)</p>
<p>^
Or until it stops beating and you have to go to the hospital.</p>
<p>Please, myocardial infarctions are so passe!</p>
<p>Wrong. People who have not done enough research on nutrition typically associate vegetarianism with good health and environment. It’s not true. There’s a huge difference between real meat and fast food meat. I also have problems with people who think that drinking soda and eating a bag of chips and cake is healthy but drinking meat soup and eating a steak is terrible. Although soda, chips, and cake are vegetarian, none of them are vegetables, none of them contain nearly as complete of a macromolecule and mineral content as meat. There’s so many myths going around nowadays and people just won’t do their own research. If Harvard accepts me, it will be because I research everything I’m interested in to find the truth. Also, I have mentioned that I eat more vegetables than any vegetarian I know eat each day. I dislike the taste of all foods, after I learned about the conservation of energy, I decided to accept reality and try to eat healthily.
I’m sure that there are plenty of Harvard biology professors who could see my side of this argument. Back when my parents didn’t make as much money, I only ate rice and instant noodles on some days; it was not a pleasant experience.</p>
<p>The academics and research opportunities at Harvard are great, and I am willing to make short term sacrifices to achieve long term goals. But understand that being vegetarian is not good if you want to be healthy and there should be free discussion about this topic. Harvard seems to promote freedom of speech, so I doubt I will have any major problems. Supporting vegetarianism is no better than openly supporting some political party. I expected higher diversity.</p>
<p>Burritos from Felipe’s provide an adequate supply of dietary grease to the menus of most Harvard students.</p>
<p>I like meat because it spits in the face of the starving. I could produce 10 times as many calories if I just grew wheat, but I’d much rather have a steak.</p>
<p>I should note that I’m not a vegetarian (not even close), but vegetarianism (or at least vastly reduced meat consumption) makes sense from a population perspective. You make more energy to consume if it passes through fewer levels of the food chain on its way to your mouth.</p>
<p>^OMG, that’s part of the Anna Karenina principle. I think. I took Human Geo last year though.</p>
<p>^^
You DO realize that there is more than enough food to feed everyone in the world right now?</p>
<p>The problem is availability and cost.</p>
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<p>…huh? you poor child…</p>
<p>@OP</p>
<p>as someone who has been a vegetarian since birth, I am disgusted by your truly ignorant and bratty postings about your absolute necessity for meat and your unfounded misconceptions regarding the health benefits of vegetarianism. beyond that, it’s a really great environmental initiative because the amount of energy wasted in meat production is appalling. but I’m not going to waste time lecturing you about how good vegetarianism is for you and the world at large because chances are you won’t get in to Harvard and this entire post will be a non-issue. </p>
<p>here’s to you going to a college that serves juicy, bloody meat EVERY DAY FOR EVERY MEAL.</p>