Vicious antivegetarianism and Newcastle University cowardice.

Chris Williams reports on how a visiting professor at Newcastle University in the U.K. lost his internet privileges due to a complaint by certain members of a, we kid you not, vegetarian dating site.

Prof. Nikolas Lloyd published a piece called "Why vegetarians should be force fed with lard" and also had some views critical of banning hunting. His essay on "A woman's place" was probably worth a month's supply of ratatouille all by its lonesome.

Mr. Lloyd was a brave man indeed to take on the Yoplait Yakuza, the M-13 Anti-Hunting Brigaden, und the forces of Studiously Outraged Feminine Sensibility all by himself. The mind reels at his raw courage.

Newcastle University officials at first acquitted theyselves well but, like craven curs, took to salving the feelings of the Vege Abteilung (VA) and cut off poor Mr. Lloyd from further rampages through delicate British psyches. It seems Mr. Lloyd enjoyed only the status as a visiting fellow and thus could not avail himself of certain statutory protections available to honest to gosh professors.

Yes.

The same nation that kicked Rommel's ass at El Alemein.

The very same.

Now it worries about hurt feelings.

O, Albion!

"Crusading veggies steamroll university into web censorship." By Chris Williams, The Register, 5/12/06.

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