The following advertisement was sent out to all Facebook subscribers of this Vancouver pizza joint:
Are we all now supposed to feel guilty when going out to a restaurant? I left them a comment that if they really believe what they’re preaching then they should shut down for a week or two. Think they will walk their talk?!
For the record, they make a pretty nice pizza, although the crust is paper thin and not to everyone’s liking.
Which shop?
I would like to drop them a thank you note for pointing how bad pizza is for my health so I will not buy any more from their shop.
I’m catholic. I already have a meatless day: Friday. You’d think given the Friday fast is a longstanding tradition of western civilization it would be a natural choice. The little fish & chip place near us does a booming business Fridays.
carbon footprint…….more BS
So do they refuse to (automobile) deliver all their pizzas on Monday too?
Ah Vancouver…land of the green and home of the hypocrits. Watching the news the other night after the first night of the annual fireworks competition and the entire beach was littered with the most appallling amount of trash. The city is forced to pay muni workers an excessive amount of overtime to clean up just to be repeated on Wed and Sat night. I recall a rather large “Tea Party” rally on the Washington Mall that left not a cigarette butt behind. If you bring it, pack it home with you, you pack of pigs. And if you want to help stop obesity and diabetes, stop eating pizza…completely.
My comment to the pizza guy:
Your suggestion for Meatless Monday that meat contributes to obesity and diabetes is exactly the reverse of current understanding in medicine. If you want your customers to be healthier, why not try LOOKING UP THE FACTS instead of going with whatever idiotic fad the hippies came up with this week.
The diets being prescribed by physicians for weight loss, which are successful, are to eat six (6) times a day, three meals and three snacks. Meals to tend toward protein, restricting carbs. Don’t eat after 8pm.
Go look it up, and please stop disseminating false information. We have enough sick, fat people in the world already, thanks very much.
So I order a shrimp pizza…how do they get the shrimp from the ocean to the restaurant from the sea…..maybe by a big diesel burning boat….and oh yes there is way more meat available than shrimp….so lets save the shrimp and eat the meat.
Same can be said for a fruit pizza and a vegatarian pizza.
I would like to know the name of this restaurant do I never go there…..
Little hypocritical to make your money on meat pizzas 6 days a week and then have one day when you don’t. If they were serious about it, they’d be meatless every day and reduce their carbon footprint by an additional 85%.
I wouldn’t buy a pizza there, but at least I’d acknowledge they had the courage ot stand behind their convictions.
Any angle to get new customers.
You can’t blame them for trying.
You can blame them for being so stupid about it.
This is so obviously a marketing device aimed at a particular self-congratulatory demographic. Good luck to them if it helps their business.
Otherwise, ignore it.
Personally, I judge restaurants on the food and the service. I’ll cheerfully eat in a vegetarian joint if the food is good. But I’ll just as happily go for a steak somewhere else should I have a craving for grilled meat.
We’ll see how long it lasts until economic reality sets in. Should be a unique learning experience for them.
Meatless Mondays is such a bunch of gutless tokenism. If resturants like this metrosexual trendy pizza parlour truly held the convictions they preach for the rest of us, that by not eating meat, we can miraculously reduce our carbon footprints, save precious resources and extend our lives, then they would do it on a day where sales really count like a Friday or a Saturday.
But on a slow pizza sales day like Monday when such jestures don’t really make any difference … gutless liberalism.
Almost as condescendingly pukey as those Toyota ads that preached the virtues of environmental sensitivity on WILD TV.
Liberals. Meatless on Mondays but gutless every day. Makes me happy that I went out last night and ordered a steak for dinner.
There is no clinical evidence to support the last sentence of the sign. Just another example of settled science.
If this is the kind of crap you get on facebook, I’m glad I have never signed up. I should get a twitter account so I can send out stupid messages like olympic athletes or Alberta cabinet ministers.
If going meatless once a week can help reduce your carbon footprint and save precious resources like fresh water and fossil fuel, then why not go meatless every day?
If it will(not just may) reduce your risk of chronic preventable conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity then stop eating meat altogether.
Last but not least does cheese, mozzarella for example, come from cows?
If so best to not eat products which contain cheese, pizza comes to mind.
” In addition to our regular all day menu, we are offering the following Meatless Monday specials ”
They still use their regular meat menu. I wonder, if you ordered meat on a Monday would that upset the other patrons? Would they treat you like a smoker and hurry their little darlings by your table?
As an added bonus,the workplace apparatchik can loudly proclaim the sacrifice they have made to save the planet,while sneering at us common folk who don’t care like they do.
Humm…saving the universe by burning wood in a horrifically inefficient wood oven that is a terrible polluter compared to clean natural gas. AND they use wheat grown in Italy vs buying high-end Canadian wheat.
A bunch of hypocritical green-weenie BS. ☺
Does going “Meatless ” also mean no meat products? Which means Cheese-less pizza. Good luck selling these pizzas.
The most significant way to reduce one’s carbon footprint is to stop buying and driving gasoline-powered motor vehicles. Why is the Left not hard at it advocating ditching the car?
Ah….just lay the hell off the solutions to a non-existant problem….it ain’t glowball warmin’…it’s summer…happens every year…mostly
I see that this is a Neapolitan Pizzeria. Does that mean that the place looks like a pigsty and you get your pocket picked when you go there?
They need a geography lesson as well.
“produced in Tuscany in northeastern Italy”
Not where Tuscany is Dudes.
“Why is the Left not hard at it advocating ditching the car?”
~shaken
Auto workers unions members wouldn’t vote for the Left then would they?
The dirty little truth is the Left is made up of the Children of Chaos.
Each Leftists group’s interest is at odds with some of the others.
They’d all be cutting each other’s grass if each interest group got their way, they’d all fall into the ditch and come to naught.
Sounds like a pizzeria to be avoided at all times. Run by moonbats, no doubt. In my experience, the best pizza to be had in Canada is made by Greeks.
Now what would be fun: How about, on “meatless Monday” gather a few friends and a couple of portable gas grills and folding tables, and set up on the sidewalk in front of this pizza joint, and grill some yummy steaks and dino ribs? Not for sale, as that would require a city permit. Just for the consumption of yourselves and your friends, and anybody who might ask for a taste. Make no attempt to block the entry of the pizza joint, or to harangue their clientele; just be there, gently mocking them.
I think you’re missing the point,they want to reduce their carbon footprint,so CLOSE THE BUSINESS!
Then there would be NO meat, flour,pasta sauce,electricity Bills,water usage,or employees making their way to work by horrible cars or other means.
Yes,shut her down,and everyone collect welfare. It’s for the planet/children.
Allah,I’m getting SO tired of the stupidity of the people who want to “make the world a better place”.
I am a vegetarian. I think every day of the week should be meatless, eggless, milkless, cheeseless.
Suzuki once told me that historically humans never ate meat. Meat eating was invented by right-wing conservatives because they hate animals.
It doesn’t matter if I look pale and shrivelled because of lack of protein. Such is life. These are sacrifices that need to be made. There are too many of us on the planet anyway.
Got PETA! Go Suzuki! Go Gore! Down with meat eaters.
Well done TJ. You’ve convinced me.
This Fall I am going moose hunting but this time I’ll merely converse with Bullwinkle,rather than assassinate him.
Bambi? Won’t even look at Bambi through the scope.
Joking aside, cows are just efficient protein conversion chemical factories. So I really don’t know why people fuss so much and engage in shallow, feel-good exercises like meatless Mondays.
Back when I was in the corporate world, I was treated to training sessions where we spent a week at a time in an isolated retreat on Vancouver Island where the presumptuous organizers treated us to a one day vegetarian cuisine whether or not we wanted one. My reaction was to pig-out on the bean dishes and treat everyone to the proudly noisy and odorous consequences that followed, blaming it on the PC organizers.
You might want to point out to the pizza joint that methane is a much more effective green house gas than carbon dioxide.
Rick:
Surprisingly, pizza doesn’t spike the blood sugar of many diabetics the way other foods do; the thought is it’s the combination of carbs/fat/protein with the tomato, but who knows?
What I wonder about the pizza joint in question is why do so many establishments think I want to purchase their morality along with their goods? I thought branding was important when it was difficult for people to get information; you bought Tide over Brand X because you believed that it was a better product. Now that we all have access to so much info, what do we need brands for? I suspect brands today are for people who, lacking any true sense of self, try to adopt one through the brands they buy. For example, if you live and work in downtown Toronto, buying a Smart car that can park in tiny spots and doesn’t use much gas may well be a practical choice; buying a Smart car if you live in, say, Weyburn SK is more a (desperate, IMHO) “look at me, I’m cool!”. Those of us who know who we are don’t need that type of affirmation.
“Sounds like a pizzeria to be avoided at all times. Run by moonbats, no doubt. In my experience, the best pizza to be had in Canada is made by Greeks.”
Er, no. Looks like you don’t know what a real pizza is. Here in Montreal the Italians continue to make the best pizza – BAR NONE. I know there are few non-Italians who claim they make the “best” but not in my opinion.
There are many countries already that have meatless mondays, as well as tue wed thur etc..
most of those inhabitants really don’t look that healthy. Bet that politically correct pizza joint would be welcome over there.
This morning I had a breakfast burrito with bacon and sausage. I overheard thr manager telling an employee that meat prices went up two dollars a pound virtually overnight.
I do not follow commodity markets, but when a small business owner is complaining about input prices, I tend to think they know what they are talking about.
Aside from the leftist drivel of Meatless Monday which they tried to implement here in San Francisco, some businesses might be shying away from meat because their profit margins are thinning.
Many pizzarias I’ve been to have the Meat Lovers Pizza with five different kinds of meat. If this is a social fad, it isn’t catching on everywhere. There will always be room for a competitor to deliver what another cannot or will not. On the other hand, if meat prices are going up then we should see either rising prices, more non-meat “specials,” or some moral persuasion against meat as cover for their bottom line.
The Mayor should ban them. I would if I were.
There are days that I am very embarrassed to be from Vancouver.
God, I hate hipsters AND hippies.
If we have to choose between meatless pizza and the end of the planet earth, well … we can always find another planet.
Italians do make the best pizzas, which is as it should be. Scots make the best haggis (I assume). Pizza crust needs to be very very thin and slightly burnt. If you’re eating gobs of waxy melted cheese on thick white bread you’ve been had.
I hear some nice things about B.C., but you guys do sort of seem to be California North. That can’t be good. I think I could just about tolerate hippies if they weren’t so damn sanctimonious. Ugh.
Really, really good pizza is best without meat IMO. I’m doubting, though, that this is really, really good pizza…
Keeping aside for the moment that animal products taste so damn good, unless you are a doctor or reside in the Vatican, no one tells me to go without. As was said before, this is nonsensical and appeals to those for whom empty gestures mean a lot. It also makes the control freaks excited.
Studies have repeatedly shown that eating little to no meat is healthier than eating meat regularly or excessively.
Reducing your meat intake is a good way to promote longevity and overall health and I advise anyone to give it a shot.
@ Hood
“Studies have repeatedly shown …..”
Studies have also shown vegetarians have more health and mental problems than people with a rounded diet.
Studies have shown opposing views on every subject.
When your lead line starts with a statement “Studies have repeatedly shown……” , please provide the links so we can shred those studies with other studies that have shown the opposite. Better yet, start with “in my opinion….”
Hood said: “Studies have repeatedly shown that eating little to no meat is healthier than eating meat regularly or excessively.”
Sure. Was there any math in the study you read?
Tell me the sample size, methodology and stats analysis tools. Then -maybe- you’ve got an argument. Because “studies” have also repeatedly shown that “a gun in the home is 47 times more likely to kill a resident than a burglar”, which just ain’t so.
The medical literature is about 93% useless these days. Chances are if you follow that no-meat advice you’ll make yourself sick. As in, kidney failure go to the hospital and maybe die kinda sick.
But then there will be one less dumb@$$ hipster in the world, so on balance I count it a win for my side.
Here’s the latest preachy comment to my original one asking Versace Pizza to walk their own talk:
Chad Alden Kim Sing
I don’t see this as preaching at all. It’s great to have choices but we live in an era where it is increasingly important to be responsible.
One could argue extremes of any argument but in general public education, conservation, and pre
vention (including chronic and acute diseases) remain essential and powerful tools to change modifiable habits and lifestyles. It works – there are many forms of media that appeal to common sense. Hotels do so by the cards they leave for towels and housekeeping services. Hospitals use it in pamphlets kept in the ER.
So I think it’s great that verace is keeping us in the know and giving
us choices that may serve to keep us healthier and livin in a hopefully sustainable environment.
“F” them
The best pizza I’ve ever had was in the most unlikely place I could have imagined.
Nakina Ontario’s only restaurant offers a gastro-freak of a creation, it is heaven.
“Mexican or Nacho” Pizza can’t remember the name.
Crazy good!
http://www.highway11.ca/ThunderBay/03bNakina/index.php
Don’t worry, the stuff they put on pizza isn’t really meat.