Posted on 03/12/2019 8:07:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Meatless Mondays matter: In praise of New York City schools overhauling their menus once a week
By Jessica Scott-Reid Mar 12, 2019 | 10:25 AM
Building on a major expansion this past fall, Mayor de Blasio just announced that Meatless Mondays will be in public schools across the nations largest city starting next academic year.
Not surprisingly, immediate online reactions ignited increasingly common debates over the consumption of animal products, from concerns about forcing vegetarianism on children, to calls to remove dairy as well. Ultimately though, eliminating meat from school meals one day a week is a positive and necessary move, and it's something all school districts should consider.
Talking with one young student, Elah, de Blasio said he asked the fourth grader what she thought of going meat-free for breakfast and lunch once a week, and quoted her reply: Its good for the environment, and its good for you yourself.
Elah is correct, and her response offers proof that not only do Meatless Mondays teach children about food, but also about the impact of their food choices. Every day, it seems, science shines more light on the alarming connection between animal agriculture and climate chaos: not only the production of greenhouse gas emissions, but also unsustainable water and land usage, and major loss of wildlife and biodiversity. Its high time future generations learn what they are up against, and what they can do about it. And dropping meat for two meals a week is a great place to start.
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Exactly.
My great grandad grew up in NYC - PS83 in Queens. Meals were minestrone - day after day after day.
Not serving meat one a week to school kids is socialist?
Who knew?
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DiBlasio can go suck eggs.
As a leftist troll you DID read the article that says the reasoning behind this is to help children understand the dangers of global warming right?
Yes,I read it——but like all things coming out of his mouth I ignored it——he’s playing to his base.
My original response was to a statement you made about the need for protein and going w/o protein from meat one day a week is NOT a big deal for any child.
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Hes not playing to his base - hes changing dietary and socialist food allowances to captive students to enforce his ideology and it WILL affect the health of the children involved.
Teach them to obey early, they will comply later...
You don’t need re-education camps in the United States, you have public school system.
“it WILL affect the health of the children involved.”
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One day a week? Hardly.
During WWII we were lucky to have meat 3/4 days a week-——and we survived.
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Some titles (from a Google search) of scientific finding relating to "evolution human brain animal meat"
Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us SmarterSorry Vegans: Here's How Meat-Eating Made Us Human
How Human Brains Evolved with Meat
Meat and Nicotinamide: A Causal Role in Human Evolution, History, and Demographics
In New Orleans, Monday is traditionally red beans & rice & laundry.
You slow-cook the beans all day while doing the wash.
There’s a great bar/ poolhall/ laundromat called Igor’s on St. Charles Ave. You can do your laundry & buy a beer. Plate of beans & rice— free!
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