EA Boycotts Feast Fest

-Los Angeles
-Feast Fest has become the latest victim of the anti-alcohol-consumption group Eliminate Alcohol.

EA Court President John Mecke said that EA had made the "unanimous decision" to boycott Feast Fest because the event serves alcohol and attracts families, claiming Feast Fest subjects children to untoward exposure to alcohol.

EA voted Wednesday to print and distribute anti-Feast Fest rhetoric and to urge the public not to attend Feast Fest unless it either restricts the event to those 21 and older or eliminates alcoholic consumption altogether. EA would likely prefer the latter. "EA has nothing against Feast Fest," John Sint Wiwelsken, a longtime analyst of EA and its workings, said. "Feast Fest is merely its most recent target in a long line of family-catering institutions it has endeavored recently to have them scrap alcohol. They have no legal standing, and Feast Fest needs not to worry."

Calls to EA offices and Court President Mecke were not returned. Court Member Jimmy Rokkette, who opposed the proposal, called boycotting Feast Fest "ridiculous." "We have very clear guidelines about what constitutes a legal crossing-the-line when it comes to alcoholic consumption. Feast Fest has not even come close to crossing that line."

Event Mgr. William Vanderbilt did not bridle at the boycott, however, instead extending an olive branch to EA by way of a letter to Court President Mecke in which he acknowledged problems with alcoholic consumption at Feast Fest and pledged to curb them.

"Inebriation has become a problem at Feast Fest," Vanderbilt assured Mecke, "and I stand firm in my quest to snuff it out."

FF Wire Service