(US/dc) Elizabeth Kucinich and the Veggie Caucus celebrate Earth Day
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Elizabeth Kucinich may be the best thing that ever happened to D.C.’s vegetarian movement.
“Happy Earth Day, everybody!” she said to Monday’s standing-room-only audience in the Capitol Visitors Center, embracing the roomful of young Hill staffers with a collective hug of approval. “And Happy Veg Week — although every week is veg week for us.”
Unrelated news flash: The gorgeous former congressional spouse, now a lobbyist for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, breezed in with a new, cropped haircut instead of flowing red tresses. “It’s all off,” she told us. “I’m liberated!”
The gathering was the first- ever event for the Congressional Vegetarian Staff Association — aka the Veggie Caucus. Never heard of it? Neither had we, although we just assumed it dated back to the granola days of the 1970’s.
Not even close: It was founded a mere six weeks ago, when half a dozen staffers decided they wanted more vegetarian options in the Hill cafeterias. “Anything other than beans they seemed to have a hard time with,” co-president Adam Sarvana, who works for Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva. Roll Call wrote a small article, and a movement was born.
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“Happy Earth Day, everybody!” she said to Monday’s standing-room-only audience in the Capitol Visitors Center, embracing the roomful of young Hill staffers with a collective hug of approval. “And Happy Veg Week — although every week is veg week for us.”
Unrelated news flash: The gorgeous former congressional spouse, now a lobbyist for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, breezed in with a new, cropped haircut instead of flowing red tresses. “It’s all off,” she told us. “I’m liberated!”
The gathering was the first- ever event for the Congressional Vegetarian Staff Association — aka the Veggie Caucus. Never heard of it? Neither had we, although we just assumed it dated back to the granola days of the 1970’s.
Not even close: It was founded a mere six weeks ago, when half a dozen staffers decided they wanted more vegetarian options in the Hill cafeterias. “Anything other than beans they seemed to have a hard time with,” co-president Adam Sarvana, who works for Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva. Roll Call wrote a small article, and a movement was born.
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full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/04/22/elizabeth-kucinich-and-the-veggie-caucus-celebrate-earth-day/
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