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Advice for wanna-be enviroliberals

By Caroline Cummins

December 11, 2008

Christian Lander, the blogger behind Stuff White People Like, is currently starring on the cover of the environmental magazine Plenty with an article titled “Stuff Environmentalists Like.” Highlights include tips for how to be a bleeding-heart liberal at a dinner party:

If you are hoping to impress a host . . . tell a story about how you are raising a few chickens in your back yard. For extra points, use the following terms: free-range, factory farm, and antibiotics . . . If conversation starts to lull, it’s always a good idea to bring up a paradox that engages the entire table. The most pressing question of our generation is: local or organic?

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