<p>Food tastes better when it wasn't made by killing people.</p>
<p>"Now all 12 of Yale's colleges have some sustainable options, though they still serve hot dogs and other traditional food.</p>
<p>Yale opened a cafe this week in a new library that includes fair trade coffee and chocolate, local organic produce and meat that is hormone and antibiotic free. The menu changes with the seasons."</p>
<p>There're people who are born into wealthy and intellectual families, smarter and richer than their peers. These people then get to better colleges, have better food and healthier lifestyles, so end up living longer. It would have been an ideal evolutionary development if the less fortunate people of society do not happen to reproduce more.</p>
<p>To all Yalies: have more unprotected sex! We need more of you! Please save us, please save the whole human kind!</p>
<p>Eh, yeah, or we acknowledge the fact that there are myriads of supersmart kids out there that, due to poverty, don't even make it out of high school. </p>
<p>Sustainable food here is good and I appreciate the cause, obviously, but I wonder if there couldn't have been some more effort to figure out an affordable model to share with colleges and high schools NOT endowed with 50 gazillion dollars just flying around. If we could figure out a way to make sustainable food sustainable for disadvantaged organizations and communities as well, now THAT would be sweet.</p>
<p>Now, I don't know how serious you were with the reproduction part, but there was a kid in the YDN the other week that argued something in that same vein. It scares me to think moronic, elitist, quasi-racist ideas like that actually have some sort of support out there. Even if us "Yalies" got boatloads of double-legacy babies - which, statistically speaking, won't happen since affluence and education drastically decrease the number of children women have (and the other way around with lower-income brackets) - we'd still have to rely on a permanent workingclass to polish our shoes, compete for serving us burgers and whatnot. You can't eradicate poverty by equating it with "bad" individuals having "bad" babies in a "bad" context, since this is what the assumption of "good" reproduction presupposes - poverty and brains isn't an individual or familial thing. Also, much of what we think of as safevouching intelligence - an academic family, a good prep school - has less to do with innovative, independent thinking and more with cultural padding. </p>
<p>I love Yale. I love the fact everybody (well, 99%) here is very down-to-earth, quirky, and passionate about some issue or another. But Yale is still an ivory tower for reproducing the upper classes, try as they might to shuffle some of us finaid kids along on that ladder. I've never seen a non-black dining hall worker. I mean, the same system that lets us feel like Yale is where the creme de la creme go is that which makes sure those dining hall workers can never be part of it. Punishing the workingclass for being just that, enabling our affluent lifestyle, is incredibly hypocritical. The administration is actively trying to change that with finaid initiatives, etc - we should be supporting this, not mocking it by imagining there to be some clearly defined "Yalie" human being out there that, coincidentally, almost always turns out to be a white kid from a solid prep school.</p>
<p>Rant over. Sorry!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, all the top colleges are elitist in several senses. But the top 30 state universities in this country are MUCH more elitist than Yale or Harvard. They have much worse financial aid and student bodies who segregate based on which affluent suburban town they came from, even to the point where the wealthy kids can rent better dormitory rooms by paying more. They are also typically located far from anyone else, in remote areas or tiny towns that are historically disconnected from any larger community. YH are much more integrated, on many levels.</p>
<p>Breaking news: Air Force No2 crashed in New Haven, Connecticut while flying from Sustainable Food to Unprotected Sex. The aircraft ran out of sense-of-humor and finally crashed down on Yale campus in the witness of thousands of walking ivory-towers there. </p>
<p>Coming up next... ?</p>