Mint Tulip Vegan Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
“Once a year during a certain holiday in November, meat-eaters use the hollowed-out rectum of a dead bird as a pressure cooker for stuffing. And people think vegans are weird because we eat tofu?” ~Gary Yourofsky In the spirit of the much debated question of “nature or nurture,” my inaugural visit to The Mint Tulip Vegan Restaurant prompted my own philosophical contemplation, “are veggie haters born or made?” The answer is probably a little of both. Many of us were–as children–traumatized by well-intentioned parental chiding or threats regarding vegetables: “Eat Your Vegetables!” “You’re not leaving this table until you eat your rutabaga!” “No dessert until you finish all your vegetable medley!” Then there are those of us who were once…