The Food Professor sat down to talk to some University of Montreal grad students the other day. The feedback he got confirms the suspicions of many that most universities have never altered their mission to graduate as many Marxists as possible.
Spoke with a group of graduate students and faculty today. The consensus in the room was clear: they believe food companies shouldn’t be allowed to make a profit, and meat consumption should be banned or at least heavily discouraged.
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food companies shouldn’t be allowed to make a profit
That’s the recipe for a famine.
true. just make sure the ideology swamped marxists seize all the
good arable land and start driving crop yields down right away
Pssst … that’s already been tried in the Soviet Union. Breadlines, then Tens of millions died, comrades
Yes Kenji and you know things about history because people who were Humanities grads wrote histories.
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it?
How can people learn history if there are no Histories written because there are no Humanities studies?
Are you implying Kenji wants to ban Humanities studies in universities?
No, I am not, Mango.
I am saying that Kenji knows history because Humanities grads wrote it and Kenji experienced it and read about it.
Below other commentors are denigrating the Humanities departments.
(can I still say denigrating or is that racist?)
The Humanities in universities used to be essential to bolstering the continuity of western civilization.
How do I know that?
Well, it is because I am a humanities student who learned how to appreciate the best and brightest tradition and its canon of great works.
History, Literature, Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Law. Essential context.
All seemingly undermined by the queer, post modern, Marxist takeover of what used to be a good and true “liberal arts” education.
And by “liberal” I allude to the classic kind. You know, John Stuart Mill, etc.
As for history. I like Paul Johnson’s approach.
Oh, and I can state what I just said thanks to a solid humanities education, good old school profs, but, most importantly, because of a curious mind and a local library that preceded any formal stuff.
Nuff said.
There are two types of Marxists, those who drink wine with their bread and those in the bread lines. The nice thing about universities is that they will willingly line up for bread.
Here’s a BC Marxist who racked up a $6000 limo bill.
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/bc-minister-slammed-for-6600-limousine-bill-on-boston-trip/67774
Should have replaced humanities faculties with library cards 50 years ago!
All funding to humanities faculties should be redirected to technical schools. At the very least, tuition to humanities faculties should be doubled while tuition to engineering and medical faculties should be cut in half.
Not to medical schools! Medical schools constantly push the proPalestintian Marxist line. Just go look at any valedictorian speech from medical school in the last ten years. The 2024 speech at U of Manitoba by Dr. Gem Newman included a call for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists and alleged Israel’s military was deliberately targeting Palestinian hospitals. And he condemned medical associations for their silence on the conflict. The resulting fall out was so bad the university removed the speech from its website and canceled the 2025 speech altogether. Doctors don’t get nutrition and genetics training much beyond a brief mention in first year but they do get classes in equity, diversity, oppression of women by the patriarchy and the evil of Zionism their entire medical education. Can you think of a more woke lefty groups than Medicine Sans Frontier? Just go check out this “leadership in medicine” curriculum for the Canadian Medical Association Professional Development. Medicine has been totally captured.
https://www.came-acem.ca/professional-development/clime2/
Dude, you’re talking U of M. Ask questions they can relate to. Like should pushers be allowed to make a profit. Should blowing your professor merit an A or a B?
Depends on whether spit or swallow.
I often wonder if my field of study (Rutgers, Landscape Architecture 85-89) has been compromised by the Woke Mind Virus in the last few years. It was largely devoid of any Marxist leanings, although a professor of horticulture once insinuated a professor didn’t get tenure because she was a woman (the patriarchy!). IIRC, that was the extent of it. Kind of hard to inject Marxism into landscape design, but I’m sure the commies have found a way!
“Kind of hard to inject Marxism into landscape design…”
The Soviets seemed to find a way.
In a brutal sort of way.
Some of the dumbest people I ever met were in graduate school. In some ways they were brilliant, and in others they were dumb as a stump. But most of them believed they were smarter than everyone else, and knew everything.
So grad students are morons – big shocker there.
No profit, no food.
Give them a choice between eating grass or what’s skewered on Buddy’s Long Pig BBQ, I have no doubts.
Well in todays reign of untruths,naturally the “Humanities Studies” will ignore and deny Human Nature.
Same type of clowns who seek to save us from misinformation as they lie to us.
Humans all have a sense of right and wrong,especially when they are getting the short end of the stick.
Can Ahh Duh is fading away, because those who produce real things are getting shafted.
With no legal recourse or remedy,the only cure is stop producing.
So sad.
Too Bad.
No profit for me?
No produce for you.