Vegetarian Fruitcakes Of Tokyo

The lamest festival of the summer was sabotaged?

Yoyogi Parks 1st Tokyo Vegefesta was one of the biggest duds in the park's history. Record low numbers turned out for the 2 day festival. Despite being a vegetarian festival it smelled more like meat than any other event at the park all summer. The smell and smoke were due to many meat stands intentionally burning meat and fanning it through the small crowd.

The vegetarian movement in Japan is a small but vocal and annoying movement to most Japanese. Thousands of kilos of meatless food went unsold over the weekend, in fact, the busiest vendor was a Yakuza- operated, Turkish kebab stand selling tasty meats. The meat / seafood stands accounted for 40% of the food stalls and all were giving out free samples.

Vegetarian my ass! This meat stand was turning them away in droves!



A disappointed Vegefest organizer told me,  “From the beginning there was no respect given to us by the parks commission. They allowed Yakuza run food stalls selling meat to be situated right next to the vegetarian booths, big clouds of meat smoke drifted over to the animal lovers in attendance. It was sickening. I smell like I just left a slaughterhouse. I suspect the meat industry sent a lot of unemployed people or students to line up and buy food from them too."

"There were a lot of people walking around eating meat- It was also a lot cheaper than at normal festivals this summer. It was hard to compete with them.They gave us the last weekend of the year and relegated us to only 15% of the space given to other festivals. They also would not list it on their web site or newsletter. I suspect the Japanese Beef Association pressured or bribed he parks commission to make our event fail”.

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If you came looking for entertainment and celebrity speakers you came to the wrong place,  There was almost nothing to see other than some  quickly recruited young performers who had been performing on the street nearby.  An acne faced, chubby,unnamed festival volunteer complained , "The park supplied PA system didn't work and 99% of the talent agencies in Japan wouldn't let their artists appear at our event, we only got a few street performers. A couple of vegetarian, very well known names were scheduled to speak but they never showed up, not even a phone call".
Most in attendance were not vegetarian and openly hostile at the organizers and 25 volunteers.

         “ Fuck them all, they are trying to ruin our Japanese meat industry. These anti-Japanese , herbivore faggots are responsible for losing jobs and harassing hard working, blue collar folks and taking food from our children's mouths. The guy who organized must be a fag, right?".



Trouble- making, homosexual, vegetarian foreigners where escorted out of the festival and into park and detained until the Vegefesta was over.

 

Another attendee told me, “ I don't separate people by color, I separate them by the continents their ancestors came from! The common element between the  effeminate Tokugawa era and today. The problem is peace. Japan has been free from any form of conflict since World War II, and that has liberated men from the need to be manly. These vegetarian men who bitch and complain won't put any meat in their mouth but a foreign penis is OK? Multi-colored cocks, too. A hodge podge of dark dick. They must have trouble walking after such a deep dicking by an African or Arab!  It makes no sense to me! We are the superior species. We are supposed to be eating meat. They should just move to San Francisco and die from AIDS!”

One of the meat eaters in attendance told me, " I wouldn't even feed that vegetarian shit to my dog!"






 

Scapegoated, the carnivorous, petite 69 year-old grandfather and great supporter of the community, Minoru Tanaka was sent to one of Japan's toughest prisons for four years for fraud and unfair competition over the false labeling of its meat products. The disgraced former president of the now closed Meat Hope Co. admitted to the charges, saying ,

"I had only thought of how we can produce cheap meat to maintain the price at a level demanded by our customers and feed Japan's schoolchildren."

  Just one of these Anti-Japan idiots in Minoru's small town in Hokkaido caused almost everyone there to be unemployed and almost abandoned when the commie whistle-blower ratted out his wealthy boss to the media.

“ The Meat Hope factory employed a whole town when some vegetarian , PETA member, whale loving, fruitcake decided to tell the inside scoop on how we repacked the returned, expired meat and relabeled it. We also called our mix of pork, chicken and beef that was returned 100% beef...  So what? Many others do that too. That might have been a mistake as it pissed off the few homosexuals, Jews and Muslims down in Tokyo who can't eat it for some reason. Listen, most of these laws about expiration dates and shit like that are bullshit. No harm in eating meat that's a few months old, as long as it's kept cold and the bacteria count is low it's OK to eat”.

Three years in prison is not enough to keep this nationalistic businessman down

 
He is stopped to have his photo taken with some cute high schoolgirls who like his outfit.

 "Japan is having a real crisis with a low birthrate. It's all these herbivore boys, they lack confidence and a sex drive. They'd rather blow a guy. Even a Chinese or Korean one! It's sad to see what's happening to my Japan. These grass eaters even sit down on their heated toilet to piss! It's a tragedy!  We've been having trouble with blurry gender boundaries for years and not eating meat is making our men even bigger pussies. Maybe a war will make our boys become men again"

This pro meat industry rally on the other side of the park is suspected of helping ruin the VegeFesta.

Sobbing, he added, “ I only wanted to give jobs to the people of my hometown and provide affordable food to the people of Japan, no one got sick, they are all sick in the head, but no one got sick that I know of.”   He also added,  “ You should see what  those filthy Americans are putting into the All-American Hot Dog! You think my Meat Hope was bad? Let me take you on a tour of a sausage or wiener plant! You know chicken nuggets? You will give me an award for sanitation if you see that. They went after me because I am a small time businessman in rural Japan.”


Stand Tall, Stand Proud, Minoru. You did your time, now time to payback those motherfuckers who set you up and destroyed your life and town

The judge in the case said, "The defendant caused anxiety about food labeling among consumers, shaking the foundation of the public's trust on food safety. Tanaka's practice of mixing other rotting meat and other animal and fish by-products into the beef stands out in its maliciousness and should be distinguished from other recent false food labeling incidents, such as disguising a product's origin."


My Falafel sangwich was tasty and a rare treat in Tokyo

 

Prosecutors, pressured by US and Australian meat companies, had sought a six-year prison term, claiming the false labeling was "unprecedentedly systematic and chronic for a food-related crime." Those laws were created in the 50's when refrigeration wasn't as good and food spoiled easily. The politicians can't make the dates longer now cause it would look bad and make them unpopular. Also, all this old food keeps the 100 yen shops in business and people, including foreigners, employed. "

Minoru claims, " The US Beef industry got pissed at Japanese meat producers, we cost them millions with that whole mad cow ban on US Meat we started a while back. I was just a political target to make up for that, what a bunch of bullshit".





Despite organizer's protests, this shellfish stand was given the best spot near the festival's entrance. It also had the longest line!



Festival founder and main organizer, Yoshiharu Kondo, 33,  says,
"I'm used to adversity, since I was a kid in school and refused to eat the school lunch. Authority in the school system always hated me because of my being outspoken and dressing like a video game character. I used to have to sneak candy bars and bread in the bathroom because the school refuse [sic] to let me bring my own cruelty- free lunch".

Starting to cry, Yoshiharu struggled to say, "Although the festival did fail pretty badly.....very badly..... I think there will be a 2nd annual festival next year......
We may have to move it to a smaller park outside of Tokyo though. The whole time we ran into many obstacles and red tape. It was crazy".




His face covered for his job security, Yohiharu is already hard at work planing the 2011 event



Now red faced and visibly angry, "They kept rejecting my applications since 2005, I had to hire 3 lawyers to get it in order and then they would all mysteriously quit after they got threatening phone calls. I really think Japan is scared of people not eating meat. I had to use vegetarian volunteers to build the stands because the park worker's union refused to set up the stalls- they gave no reason.
Many things went wrong. It was a nightmare to organize and almost impossible to advertise. Several leading newspapers would not accept our paid ads or even mention it, also, no reason at all was given! I feel I had a small victory in pulling it off and will not quit!!!"







Fuck these vegetarian weirdos and right wing meat lovers, I gotta get back to my fish dinner!