Food Blogs Join Fast for Peace

July 01, 2006 by Kalyn Denny in Food


Yesterday, two food blogs encouraged other bloggers to support a hunger strike or wage a virtual "fast from blogging" for one day or more, in a campaign designed to build pressure for withdrawing U.S. troops from the Iraq war.

Troops Home Fast is the name of a hunger strike campaign organized by Code Pink scheduled to begin July 4, in protest against the Iraq war. The campaign has also been endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America.

Now Cooking with Ideas has proposed that food blogs, or other bloggers, join the protest with a "virtual" or literal fast. Cooking with Ideas suggest several ways bloggers can lend support:

Just as those who are organizing the Hunger Strike offer various ways to be involved, there are many ways to support the "virtual fast." You might do so by:

1) Joining the strike by refraining from blogging for the period that long term hunger strikers do so.

2) "Fasting" on July 4th (the starting date) with those who do so.

3) "Fasting" on a different day or other time period and announcing your intention to do so and why.

4) Organizing a "rolling fast" with bloggers you know-- so that some or all of us refrain from blogging on different dates.

5) Doing what we can to ensure that we publicize the literal -- and our virtual --fast. The Code Pink site has useful information --including directions on how to fast safely.

Of course, for those of us who choose to fast literally, posting on that topic (on a day when you are not figuratively fasting!) would be great as well. Be sure to include a tag in your post -- we suggest "virtual hunger strike." And let us know that you're joining us.

Another food blogger, Laura Rebecca's Kitchen has already joined, designing the logo for bloggers you see above and posting Blog Fast for Peace encouraging other bloggers to participate.

Contributing editor Kalyn Denny also blogs at Kalyn's Kitchen

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One big assumption

suebob July 1, 2006 - 3:11pm

This is assuming that someone gives a crap whether we blog or not.

Yes, but

Kalyn Denny July 1, 2006 - 3:25pm

Yes, Sue I had to admit that did occur to me, but I was hoping I wasn't just old and cynical. (And, you're obviously not old and don't seem to be cynical either.) Still, I like the idea of it.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

Correction

suebob July 2, 2006 - 2:52pm

I am both old and cynical LOL. I will be 45 on Thursday and feel at least twice that.

I have been a participant in and designer of many protests. I think that some of them have been wrong-headed wastes of time. That's why I examine what I am getting myself into with a somewhat jaundiced eye.

Pretty much ditto on every

Kalyn Denny July 2, 2006 - 3:34pm

Pretty much ditto on every thing you said, except I'm 57 but I don't feel twice that old. Sometimes I only feel about half that old. I protested the Vietnam war and almost got put in jail. Now I pretty much do my protesting in the ballot box, not that it's doing much good lately. I kind of stay away from politics on my blog, but I am sneaking in a tiny little mention of this, as part of a comment about how lucky we are to live in a country where every person can practice their own brand of patriotism.

Wow, you sure don't look 45. I thought you were about 35, if that.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

Say hi

suebob July 2, 2006 - 5:44pm

Say hello to me at BlogHer and you can see the wrinkles in person. I would love to meet you.

I agree. I think protest is patriotic and that it is up to all of us to get involved and stay involved in issues that are important to us.

I'll look for you

Kalyn Denny July 2, 2006 - 6:14pm

I'll look for you and say "Hi" for sure, although I'm not expecting to see many wrinkles.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

Troops Home Fast

sfk July 4, 2006 - 8:19am

I am fasting today.

I don’t expect the war to end as a result of this fast. But I have been frustrated by what seems like an inability to have any effect on the terrible things that are happening around the world, with full support of my government, and this fast gives me an opportunity to do something about it. The result won’t be an end to those terrible things, but there WILL be a result. The actions that I take will have an effect, even if I can’t see them now (even if I never know what they are), and the more of us there are taking action, the stronger the effect will be.

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