With the right sauce I think I could. “The rhetoric of apology distorts animal rights discourse in many ways,” complains Karen Davis in a recent issue of the Animals’ Agenda. “Activists warn each other that the public will never care about chickens. Therefore, the only way to persuade people to stop eating chickens is to emphasize the effects of chicken consumption on human health and the environment. To accept this defeatist view, however, is to create a self-fulfilling prophecy…. Believing that others will never care about chickens projects the feeling, ‘I don’t think I can ever care much about chickens.’”
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II. For the architect who thinks it’s still 1964. Among the “specialized gifts for architects and builders” at Toyscape on North Broadway are “Bauhaus-style toys from Switzerland.”
III. Nobody here but us gerbils. According to Fitness Experience, Inc., in Addison, “People who used to spend $2,000 on a stereo or wide-screen television are choosing to spend their money on a premium-quality treadmill that can be used by the whole family.”
I’m sorry, you don’t seem to realize that you have the wrong feelings. From a 1990 study of West Town gentrification by Erie House and the Chicago Council on Urban Affairs, as recalled by Maureen Hellwig in the Network Builder (Fall): “Families reported paying rents that were 50 and 60 percent of their income. Still others reported a pattern of relatives and friends migrating to areas like Cicero and Berwyn where they could buy a house for much less than what it cost in West Town. Ironically, many residents reported positive feelings toward the new investment. It was good to see the neighborhood improving.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
