Graffiti Writer Can't Get Vegan Food on Riker's

vegantag.jpg Anyone have a spare block of extra firm tofu, a nail file, and a soft spot for graffiti gal UTAH? She's currently doing time on Riker's Island, and allegedly she can't get her hands on any vegan grub. Animal reports that after a friend visited her there, he reported back via Twitter, saying: “She said it’s not so bad, like a ghetto sleepaway camp. Suave shamps. She is starving b/c she is vegan. No tempeh on the island apparently.” The Department of Corrections directs inmates with special dietary needs to a nutritionist, who can issue an ID card for vegan meal procurement. Of course, it's actually easier to send a lawsuit-threatening letter than to go through this process successfully. And that is exactly what UTAH had to do in order to get soy milk and peanut butter.

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Kosher, Halal is provided, why not vegan. It's cheaper and healthier.

Eat the green meat, baby, it's good for ya.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Who cares?

oh. I guess it is ok to SPRAY paint and pollute the environment because its cool to be a graffitti artist especially if you're a vegan.

So on one hand...yeah, it's prison.

But on the other hand, total excuse to go all caveman on a big, juicy, greenish-grey hamburger! When you've been without meat, I'm sure even prison meat tastes divine.

Plus, when you get out you can be a martyr to all your vegan friends -- and tell them how gross it was to be forced to eat the mystery chopped steak every day. (Particularly to have to go back for seconds.)

Oh really? Then it's off to Rikers to claim your throne.

why not request some organic clothes during your stay? this ain't no four seasons. they should make her clean off the graffiti in the toilets (if they have any) with a toothbush.

This is totally unfair to her. She is a vegan, so she should be treated as one. If the muslims can't have their pork and a Yagermeister, she shouldn't have her vegans.

How about flying her over Utah at about 30,000 feet and dropping her off over a parsnip field?

muslims don't eat pork idiot. You and your kids are losers.

And you're a mongoloid, so I guess in your eyes that oughta make you both even, right?

Fuck graffiti "artists".

hello my zionist stalker, you support bombing and killing children in Palestine so of course you wouldn't care about vegan diets. fuck off

I meant BBQ beef ribs sorry and KFC. I get them mixed up because I don't eat food that Muslims in jail eat. It fucks up your brain. Notice all the retards that come out of the system that are born again "Muslims", for a week.

you cant be serious
slow news?
motherfvckers get locked up in that island like its another bus stop
way more problems in there then some "vegan issue"
lol
you cant make this sh!t up

on other note they should have been prepared for "vegan" diet or any other diet for that matter

If it's not so bad at Rikers, she wouldn't mind staying for a few years, then?

That would be cruel and unusual punishment for all her cellmates...

What do you expect someone to say to a friend? We get it...you hate her. Now, piss off.

Felixthefat2.. you're not fooling anyone with your new account.

Felixthefat2.. you're not fooling anyone with your new account.

Hehehehehehehehehe

An inmate with special needs!!!!

Welcome to jail BITCH!!!

Give the PRISONER nothing but bread & water. To paraphrase Ivan Drago, if she dies, she dies.

By the way, why isn't she named in this post or on Animal? Is she too good to go by her birth name, Danielle Bremner? Does she think she's some uber-cool superstar who thinks everyone should recognize her by one name a la Madonna? Or is she ashamed of what she's done and doesn't want her real name associated with it for all (including possibly future employers, assuming she ever actually wants to do an honest day's work) to see on the Internet?

Well it is obvious you are an uber-hater. And it is too bad you are uber-stupid as shit, too. She is in jail...no computers...so she did not write anything on this page. How do you presume to know what she thinks or how she feels about anything. She is not participating in this ridiculous discussion, yet you have all these accusations about what she thinks. You make so many personal negative statements against Danielle that is is very clear you have some person motive or agenda that causes you to reach out and spew your hatred. The fact is, that no matter who it is, the punishment is time in jail, not starvation. Kosher and Halal meals are served everyday and nobody is forced to justify why they need or want it. The same laws that put people in jail dictate that they be treated in a humane way. If you support the law, then it is ALL laws, not just the ones that serve your purposes. There is a constitution...and people in jail deserve to be fed properly. You don't get to pick and choose who deserves what punishment. You are a p---y who hides his/her personal hatred by trying to make believe that you have some valid or valuable opinion about an issue.

There's one thing she will be eating, and it's between the legs of her 350-pound cellmate, Thunder.

Are pink tacos vegan? I'm guessing not.

For what it's worth "Utah" is a nice tag, done and placed well. It always pleased me to see it. I'm agnostic on veganism. I don't respect the "new age belief systems," but that is my own prejudice. I hope she does her time with a minimum of drama and goes on to a productive, happy life.
THANK HER FOR ME

Sorry, my original reply was for Spirit of 76, not you.

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