Veganism's new martyr...

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Dave Warwak's campaign to teach his 8th-grade art students about the evils of an omnivorous lifestyle is officially over the top.

Warwak, who says he was removed from his McHenry County classroom last week by the "ardent meat eaters" who run Fox River Grove District 3, had predicted he would be fired at a Monday meeting with his bosses. That didn't happen, but Warwak now says he won't return to work unless the school cafeteria goes vegan, eliminating meat, milk and other "poisons" from the menu. He also wants the state's attorney to charge the district with child endangerment.

That's several notches above last week's complaint, which was that the Fox River Thought Police were running amok. Although you had to wonder why the 8th-grade art curriculum was so heavy on nutrition and ethics, it did seem like overkill for a middle school principal to chide a teacher for sharing ideas or literature meant "to influence the students against our school lunch program."



Some parents and teachers have been dismayed by the art teacher's fixation on veganism. In the spring, Warwak created a fetching 3-D model featuring marshmallow Peeps confined to cages, run over by trucks and otherwise abused by humans. Last week, he passed out copies of "The Food Revolution," John Robbins' treatise on factory farming, after school officials refused to remove the "Got Milk?" posters from the cafeteria.


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