post-baitcon feedback

[quietann.livejournal.com]

My personal issues with baitcon are in my personal journal; however, there are a few things that IMHO need to change:

• Separate dishes/mixing equipment/etc. for any ice cream product containing meat. There are a lot of people involved who nominally keep kosher, and it's discomfiting to know that one's ice cream might have been prepared using the same equipment as, say, the chicken liver ice cream. (for that matter, I'd just ban meat-containing flavors entirely, but that's not my decision to make.)
  
• More whole wheat (not just wheat, whole wheat) bread, less white bread. We ran out of whole wheat by lunch on Saturday. (this suggestion passed on from Gregorian, who was amazingly polite about it, but still really would have preferred whole wheat bread for his peanut butter sandwich...)
  
• More tarpage for shade protection (may not be an issue if baitcon isn't at Mink Hollow anymore, but...)
  
• Re-reinforcement of the "modest dress" (ahem) requirement in and around the main area. There was one person in particular who seriously violated this. (insert serious snarkage here; I am trying to be polite.) Dancing naked in the rain, as usual, should be granted leniency.
  

Comments

[gingicat]

Well, I can think of at least six people offhand (including myself and my husband, who admittedly haven't been in a while) who keep meat-milk separation in some fashion but are okay with eating Baitcon food.

I can think of at least two vegans who have attended past Baitcons but weren't at this one.

So yes, it's a small sample size, but it's the sort of thing I did automatically for people long before I kept meat-milk separation rules myself. Consider it akin to making sure the person allergic to mushrooms doesn't get anything that touches the mushrooms. There may be only one person with that allergy, but making sure zie doesn't go into anaphylactic shock is still well worth the effort. Kashrut and veganism are conscious choices, but no less mentally important to the people who practice them.