Posted on 12/08/2009 8:44:12 AM PST by markomalley
For Ashley Valentín, giving up meat was easy.
The hard part: finding something to eat in the school cafeteria.
``At first, there weren't that many options,'' said Ashley, 17, a senior at Miami Sunset High. ``There was always pizza. But eating pizza all the time is unhealthy.''
School cafeterias are taking note.
While the Miami-Dade school district has long offered vegetarian items, it debuted three new vegan options this year: faux chicken nuggets, veggie burgers and hummus platters.
The Broward school district also added veggie burgers to menus districtwide. And cafeterias are now offering vegetarian and vegan salads daily -- and a hot vegan option once a week.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
She could always pack her own brussel sprouts and beano. However, that would require effort on her part.
Processed foodstuffs to resemble meat.
Processed foodstuffs to resemble meat.
and a plate of hummus with bread.
None of THIS is a healthy lunch either.
I don’t see any problem with this. If they were going all vegan or vegetarian, I would. But, if there is a demand among student for vegan/vegetarian items, I think it is good for the schools to respond to it.
I went to a school 20 plus years ago that only served soy...no meat. Of course, they did it to save money, not because a small minority of students thought meat was icky.
Soy tacos are disgusting. Soy hamburgers are disgusting. I learned at 10 to stay away from soy as the primary ingredient in my meals.
I say the food is the food, eat it or don’t. Bring your own tofu/halal/sushi/etc from home.
It isn’t about what SHE wants to eat, it is about getting the school to bend to her ideology and impose it on other students as a “choice”.
Certainly the number of other food options must decline. All because eating meat is “wrong” morally.
Secular humanism is the one religion permitted by the state.
Parents aren’t going to buy 5 days of lunches when so many kids can get a ‘FREE’ lunch at the schools.
I have no problem with them offering vegetarian options.
When I was in junior high, peanut butter and jelly qualified as vegetarian.
Uh, what exactly is wrong with providing vegetarian alternatives in school cafeterias? Vegetarianism is a choice that many people make for a variety of reasons - religious, ethical, health, etc. It doesn’t hurt anyone else and doesn’t really make excesive demands of school cafeteria, IMO.
I say the above as someone who doesn’t mind some vegetarian fare, but still likes meat and seafood.
Do I see a knee jerk here, that the kids must of necessity be under the thumb of a gummit indoctrination land in order to want these things available?
Especially if they turn out to cost less for the same nutrition, as many lacto-ovo vegetarian items do?
I was by no means shy of meat as such, but I hated hamburger pizza with a passion, and tons of it got wasted when it was put on my plate whether I could stand it or not.
Because more and more there is not the "option."
What percentage of student “demand” for it? 5%, 10%, 35%?
How about for halal meals to be served?
What is the level of demand needed to change the menu for everybody?
Excellent! More food in the dumpsters.
BS, what if the rich kids want their fish eggs. Your are in school eat and live like the rest of the mush heads.
The entire reason that we have school meals is that it props up the lazy a** parents who are more than happy to abdicate away virtually every aspect of their responsibility. In addition when 70% of the Amish don’t know who their father is, it becomes easy to justify meals for these disadvantaged kids. We have spent $15T dollars since the Great Society was rolled out by LBJ. Has anything gotten better? Wake up people. It’s about personal responsibility and accountability not government doing anything for you.
Soy was a joy to me when I was young. Today it is gas city. Digestions change as we age.
>>>BS, what if the rich kids want their fish eggs. Your are in school eat and live like the rest of the mush heads.<<
Adding caviar to the menu would be quite expensive. I doubt the vegan alternatives are.
I went to Prep School. Lived in the Dorm. Some of the “mystery meat” we were served was not fit for human consumption! I would have enjoyed fried tofu and vegetables over some of the gut wrenching “meat” I had to eat if I didn’t want to go hungry!
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