Election day

So Wednesday's election day here - not presidential, but rather the local representatives. And it's a holiday. Yaaaaaaaay, no work!

We mentioned before that Korean elections are a strange mixture of awesome & annoying as all hell, mostly due to things like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULO0nwcYADo&feature=b-mv

[In Seoul (I believe), not filmed by us]

This is the kind of thing we encounter just while walking around.

The older fellow in blue? Their handler/organizer.

The older lady in pink? A random adjumma who decided to get groovy.

The move the main dancer makes at 1:00? Trying to hand out a flyer to passerby. We have to dodge this move a LOT. The whole "Yeah, I'm a foreigner, I obviously can't vote in your elections" thing only works on some people.

During last year's election cycle, we had four different groups representing four different people at a 4-way stop. It was chaos. Each had their own custom van with backdrop, music, dance, and flyers. Oooooh my god.

The Vegetarian Myth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNON5iNf07o

So I'm trying out a new baked tofu recipe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXOxjpufaH0) and am currently just waiting on the oven.
While waiting, I start browsing youtube and come across this interview. An interesting listen. I agree with quite a bit of her vision of where the world is headed, and had two thoughts after watching:

In defense of her argument:
1) Why are all the veg*ns angry at her for talking about this? The book could have just as easily been titled "The Agricultural Myth" or "The Global Civilization Myth" - the main point stands that by producing massives heaps of cheap processed food in one country to try & feed the rest of the world is simply preposterous. It's up to the local communities to do that. Another country can perhaps lead the way in technology & innovation, but the actual production of the food needs to be local. I would imagine most veg*ns agree with that, so I don't understand the flip-out it seems to be causing. She's basically saying "eat local."

On the other hand:
2) Why is she taking out her frustration about the global situation on the people who are most impassioned and involved in trying to actively change it? Most veg*ns, on some level, made the change for environmental reasons. By dropping out of the system, most veg*ns can rationalize that they're doing they're bit to help out. So singling out their lifestyle choice (as opposed to people who buy Monsanto products, or people who eat factory-farmed products) will just create a back-and-forth of attacks (as seen in the youtube comments, and I'm sure she's received quite a bit of backlash elsewhere) from a group of people she could really use on her side.

And finally:
3) A good review on Amazon, with a lot of follow-up discussion.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R3M4LC3USB5H3S?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_rdp_perm

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(Also posted this on Facebook, but thought I'd add it here, as well.)