The Meat Ship
You can see it here: This Is Why You're Fat
Posted on 10/06/2009 2:29:20 AM PDT by markomalley
An animal rights group has declared Baltimore schools the "Most Progressive Public School District of 2009" for going vegetarian in school cafeterias once a week. The "Meatless Monday" menu that Baltimore City Public Schools adopted this school year earned it a "Proggy Award" from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. "Proggy" is PETA shorthand for "progress." Tapping into a national campaign, the "Meatless Monday" program is intended to make lunches more healthful, stretch the district's food budget and raise awareness about the environmental impact of large-scale meat production, Tony Geraci, the district's food and nutrition director, has said. The district, which offers meat products the rest of the school week, has not promoted the program as a way to save animals. But PETA appreciates the gesture just the same. "By adopting 'Meatless Mondays,' Mr. Geraci is helping students develop healthy eating habits and saving animals' lives at the same time," PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk said in a prepared statement. "Baltimore should be proud that its schools are considering how our food choices affect us - as well as the world around us."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
More steaks on Monday for my family effectively right now...lol.
I’ll stick with my meatless Fridays for higher reasons.
>>> “Proggy” is PETA shorthand for “progress.” <<<<
Sounds like something right out of Orwell’s 1984.
Which is fitting from the sadistic PETA, whose “ethical treatment of animals” includes killing abandoned dogs in the back of minivans, then throwing their bodies into random dumpsters.
“Proggy,” indeed.
I was going to say, my Catholic girl’s school never served meat on Fridays.
“The district, which offers meat products the rest of the school week”
What? Rats?
I can’t imagine the “meat” in a Baltimore school cafeteria is anything you’d actually want to eat.
I never once ate in the school lunch room when I was a kid nor did I carry my lunch. My siblings and I always walked home for lunch rain or shine. We had rain coats and boots and umbrellas and lived about a dozen blocks from school.
If memory serves me we had an hour off for lunch.
Do any school kids do this any more?
I suggest adapting the school menu to:
Meatball Monday
Beef Tip Tuesday
Western Meat Loaf Wednesday
T-Bone Thursday
Fried Chicken Friday
MMMMM!!!!! :)
People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.
Us Catholics have had meatless fridays for 2000 years, well untill Vatican II change the rules but most Catholics still have meatless fridays.
Now all they got to do is get lawyers to represent the vegetables and have them banned .
And Maryland was the Catholic colony, too. I'd rather see meatless Fridays, but memories of frozen fish filets every Friday...I now stick with PB&J.
You can see it here: This Is Why You're Fat
People Eating Tasty Animals endorsed this program? Uh-oh.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I think the point of this (and there was an article in the Sun about it early Sept.) was simply to be “healthier”.
NOT to save animals. Trust me, Baltimore citizens couldn’t care less about saving animals.
It’s like the whole “Green” thing. What is suggested in a cultist, religious way of “saving the earth” is in fact what most people would do for self-interest - to save money.
Screw the earth. It’s not a god. It’s what should be done just for efficiency’s sake.
I think the point of this (and there was an article in the Sun about it early Sept.) was simply to be “healthier”.
NOT to save animals. Trust me, Baltimore citizens couldn’t care less about saving animals.
It’s like the whole “Green” thing. What is suggested in a cultist, religious way of “saving the earth” is in fact what most people would do for self-interest - to save money.
Screw the earth. It’s not a god. It’s what should be done just for efficiency’s sake.
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