Posted on 09/09/2014 4:12:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples is raising objections to a school district pilot program that encourages kids to eat meatless lunches once a week.
The pilot program at the Drippings Springs School District offers meat-free lunch options every Monday to students in its three elementary schools. Students can still eat meaty meals on Mondays, but must bring their lunches from home.
Among the food items offered to students this Monday were a black-bean burrito, vegetarian chili with cornbread, baby carrots and sliced peaches. On past Mondays, students could choose cheese sandwiches, cheese ravioli, spinach salad and vegetarian soups.
John Crowley, who heads childhood nutrition services for the Hays County district, said the program is intended to encourage healthy and environmentally conscientious eating. Some benefits of growing vegetables over raising livestock include fewer greenhouse gases.
He said there is no plan to expand the veggie menu to other weekdays.
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Let them eat fish!
Government slaves’ rations
My family eats meat on most days, but not necessarily everyday.
“John Crowley, who heads childhood nutrition services for the Hays County district, said the program is intended to encourage healthy and environmentally conscientious eating”
And this isnt the way to go about it.
How many wastes government salaries is this costing us?
I try to go meatless about once a month or every 6 weeks or there about. Sometimes it might go to 8 to 10 weeks if I’m not careful.
It's okay to offer a meat-free dish as an option, but forcing kids to bring food from home if they want a meat dish on a particular day is bad in principle and may be unconstitutional. Local taxpayers fund those schools and most of those taxpayers want their kids to have meat in their diet.
Note that the secular left chooses Monday, a day when abstinence from meat was never enjoined in Christian tradition, rather than Friday or Wednesday (we Orthodox lay off meat on both — Wednesday in commemoration of Our Lord’s unjust arrest, Friday in commemoration of His Saving Crucifixion — leaving aside some celebratory feasting periods and the week after the Sunday when the Gospel reading is that of the Pharisee and the Publican, when *not* fasting is a matter of ascetic practice).
This whole topic is getting ridiculous.
MAKE YOUR OWN KID’S LUNCH and stop complaining.
Every Monday a Clean Monday? No way!
Some Catholics in the area in and around New Orleans go meatless on Mondays. Years ago, I was down there visiting my dad and one of his friend’s wives, who is Catholic, said that the reason they eat beans & rice on Mondays is to atone for excess on the weekend.
Ar any rate, many people down there do have at least one or two meatless meals on Mondays.
I went to this elementary school in the fifties. There was one class for each grade 1-12 and no more than about 25 kids in each class. My sister was in the 11th grade and it had 12 kids. Nobody had even heard of kindergarten back then as far as I can remember.
Nowadays, there are more schools in the Dripping Springs area than I can count. The population must be 20-30 times what it was back then.
Cookies, cake and ice cream are meatless!
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