Splinter Groups (was: Re: pork question)

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> We don't have to make a website at this time, just write and

> constantly revise well-referenced essays on topics that interest

us.

> And a couple years down the road it may hit critical mass. We are

in

> this for the long haul, right?

Hi ,

I like this! There are so many great ideas and info on this list (a

list which not many folks even know about). Creating a place for the

posting of articles and the free exchange of ideas on these subjects

that could more likely be found, is a great idea. I'm sure there

could be ways that the group could serve an advisory function to the

Foundation, helping it to refine and elaborate its messages. There

definitely needs to be a way to engage people 24/7 worldwide on these

subjects, and not just every few months when the WAPF journal comes

out. Thanks for suggesting this, and I hope that something will come

of it. I would be interested in participating in the formative

processes but have no time until the summer.

Best,

> >

> >

> > But, again, I'm much more concerned that the WAP foundation's

> literature,

> > whether printed or digital, be accurate and rigorously sourced.

>

> Funny to think that when I joined this list I was worried that it

> would be cultish - but the only cult here is the cult of the

nitpick!

>

> I don't think splinter groups are inherantly bad. Where would

> vegetarianism be if there were only one school of vegetarian

thought?

> What I'm starting to think would be cool is something

> like 'beyondveg.com'. We could call it 'beyondnapd.com'

> or 'beyondwap.com'. Unlike beyondveg it wouldn't be about ex-

wapers,

> but it would be 'research baised appraisals of traditional

> nutrition'. We could all just write essays about differant topics

and

> then nitpick the hell out of them. Carmen could turn her post

> about 'calves fed pasteurized milk...' into a full blown essay

about

> that subject, I could put up my cholesterol review, etc...

>

> In the meantime we can just pick topics that we've already thought

> about and try to exhaustively research them. Find the references

that

> contradict our points so that we can 'while some studies (1,2,3)

have

> found the opposite, the bulk of the research (4-12) has found

that...'

>

> We don't have to make a website at this time, just write and

> constantly revise well-referenced essays on topics that interest

us.

> And a couple years down the road it may hit critical mass. We are

in

> this for the long haul, right?

>

>