Friday morning roundup

Will the Taliban take Karachi?

Have I mentioned that there are a shit-ton of antibiotics in meat?

Are poor, rural students out of reach for elite schools?

Smell that olive oil.

On that topic--the one addressed in the Well post, on the importance of fats to satiety--I have to mostly agree but kind-of disagree with this SoulVeggie post on Daiya cheese. I really see no point in eschewing fat in general, and I know the issue that vegan nutritionists take is with expressed oils, and Soul Veggie has it in for olive oil for that reason. Shrug. It's fine. As for Daiya cheese, of course its nutritional claims are absurd, but anyone with a brain has got to be able to figure that out (that said, given the success of gluten-free marketing to non-celiacs or non-allergics, I question the nutritional savvy of these consumers). This is touched on in the comments, but the issue is that, no, Daiya is not good for you, but it's also not bad for you. It's a sometimes-food. If you're going to Daiya to meet your nutritional needs, you have bigger problems.