Eating Berkeley

Guide to getting to campus’s closest fast food

Berkeley is known for having some of the best food venues in the Bay, there’s no question there. But, if you’ve grown up under the wing of corporate America, sometimes the only thing you miss is a nice and greasy meal from your favorite fast food chain. Here at the Clog,
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Columns

Deconstructing meat

Theoretical Titillation

I segued back into my former omnivore lifestyle with a pescatarian diet. After a few days, I moved past seafood. At first it was easy; I could detach myself from the animal. But then it wasn’t. As silly as it seemed, my meaty meals challenged my moral premise. I often woke up full, more from shame than from the meat itself. If I ate seafood the night before, I spent my mornings considering the water pollution offset by overfishing and farming fish. On a more emotional level, I thought about the fish and their fish lives, drifting in water only to be caught and eaten. I thought about what made me entitled to eating another sentient being. What was it about being human? Did my willpower snap in half under the weight of what others told me was simply natural for me to engage in?
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Around Town

The Berkeley Student Food Collective powers through summer

Berkeley’s normally bustling student population disappears from the campus during the summer, as students return to their homes, study abroad or greet sandy beach vacations. The city’s independent businesses, once faced with long lines that stretched out the door now face hardship from the loss of customers and struggle to make profit. The Berkeley
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