Posted on 02/15/2017 4:05:43 PM PST by lowbridge
Oakland schools partnered with the environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE) to fight global warming by making student lunches climate-friendly.
FOE gave kids a lunch menu designed to eliminate foods it says are unsustainable for our planet. The new menu features far less meat and more plant-based food. Any meat or cheese the school did use came from pastured, organic dairy cows. The students lunch menu went from beef hot dogs and pepperoni pizza to vegan stir fry tofu and vegan tostadas. The new FOE-approved menu served meat and cheese-less frequently and reduced the portion sizes.
This is a landmark moment for school food, Jennifer LeBarre, head of nutrition services for Oakland Unified School District, said in a FOE press statement. We were so excited to see how the data showed that we could reduce our carbon and water footprint by serving healthy, delicious food like the vegetarian tostadas with fresh made in-house salsa, that kids absolutely love all while saving money.
The district and FOE claimed the lunch program was healthier than before, but only on the basis that food from plants is typically healthier than meat. The study justifies its health claims by stating average poultry consumption fell. FOE did not undertake an actual study into whether or not the lunches improved student health.
FOE says total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the school lunch program declined by 14 percent. The total change is equivalent to taking roughly 127 cars off the road for a year, according to the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) official calculator. The activists also claim lunch program costs fell 1 percent.
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"I eat pieces of $hit like you for breakfast!"-Happy Madison.
No WAY this woman doesn't eat entire HOGS as an "appetizer".
It’s funny how for the wild eyed leftists, what they perceive to be fascism, which to them is anyone that disagrees with them, they fight by instituting Real Fascism.
Fascism,Socialism,Communism All have the same goal, CONTROL over their fellow man
If God gave me the choice of having a million dollars and having to live in oakland or being homeless in middle america i would choose the homeless option.
If Oakland is so high on letting leftist groups like FOE, "Friends of the earth" dictate ANYTHING, I'm CERTAIN they would be all gung-ho "partnering" with a group like FOJ, "Friends of Jesus", right?
That would mean they are open-minded, or something.
No, who am I kidding? They would partner with "friends of Allah" in a minute.
Kids: You get to eat... camel meat!
It's not kosher, but it IS halal, so eat up!
Cheese is halal, too.
Stuff your indoctrinated faces!
I got tired of shrimp Creole every friday when I was in grade school. Can’t imagine having to face vegan stir fry and tostadas every day.
Those freaks should cut back on exhaling, they’re releasing too much CO2.
I’m quite sure their cafeteria garbage cans are doing a brisk business, with the kids tossing this veggie garbage right out. Growing kids need heavy duty protein, generally well served by some sort of meat.
Discarded inedible lunches generate methane gas in state landfills.
Of course not. The California immigrants will only stand so much
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