No Meat on Mondays in Los Angeles

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No Meat on Mondays in Los Angeles By Susan Jones November 12, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - The Los Angeles City Council is urging all residents to observe "meatless Mondays" from now on.

A resolution adopted on Oct. 24 reads: "Be it resolved, that the Council of the City of Los Angeles hereby declares all Mondays as 'Meatless Mondays' in support of comprehensive sustainability efforts as well as to further encourage residents to eat a more varied plant-based diet to protect their health and protect animals."

Councilwoman Jan Perry, who introduced the resolution, also wants to ban new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles.

"While this is a symbolic gesture, it is asking people to think about the food choices they make. Eating less meat can reverse some of our nation's most common illnesses," press reports quoted Perry as saying.

The resolution makes 15 points in support of meatless Mondays, including U.N. recognition that "livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems."

And if that's not enought, the resolution also mentions the growing obesity epidemic, the importance of reducing "our carbon footprint," health disparities in low-income communities, and animal cruelty.

The resolution plugs a vegetarian diet, noting that a nonprofit group in Los Angeles called Compassion Over Killing "encourages people to choose vegetarian foods as a way to help build a kinder, cleaner, and healthier world, and works with businesses throughout Los Angeles County to ensure vegetarian meals are readily available to consumers."

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Today voluntary. Tomorrow mandatory. Which is just as well. Very soon, the way the California and American economy is being handled, nobody will be able to afford meat on Mondays.

Or Tuesdays. Or Wednesdays. Or...

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“WE THE PEOPLE” Need to bring back the time honored practice of running elected and unelected Tyrants in all levels of government out of town on a rail. Who made that Tyrant Food Queen? I'd eat a pork sandwich and spit it in her face if she tried to stop me from eating meat.