Commentary
The Paris Olympics were not without their controversies, on and off the field. The bizarre opening ceremony drew the most headlines and even a rebuke from the Pope. Then there were the boxers who appeared to have XY chromosomes but competed as women. Both won gold, in the teeth of uproar over the fairness or otherwise of biological men fighting women.
One controversy that might have escaped your notice, perhaps while you were picking over the imagery in that mock Last Supper, involved another kind of supper: the food being served to the athletes in the Olympic Village. Part of the plan for this year’s Olympics was a commitment that 30 percent of the food on offer for the athletes and 60 percent of offerings to spectators should be vegetarian in order to reduce the Games’ “carbon footprint.” The athletes, however, had other ideas.
