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More districts skipping meat on Mondays
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 9, 2014 | by Jill Tucker

Posted on 09/09/2014 4:08:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Mondays have become meat free in hundreds of school cafeterias across the Bay Area, a move praised by animal rights activists and environmentalists and condemned by the livestock industry for pushing politics into the lunch line.

South San Francisco Unified joined the Meatless Monday movement this year, joining Oakland, West Contra Costa and several other districts that have adopted the campaign within the last few years.

District officials say it's all about improving student nutrition and drawing attention to alternative sources of protein.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: lunch; meat; meatlessmonday; peta; school
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Chicken is meat.


21 posted on 09/09/2014 4:46:14 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Bayard

The Catholic church could allow the traditional observation of Friday abstinence on Mondays, making this a religious observance in the schools.

Play their game.


22 posted on 09/09/2014 4:47:08 PM PDT by joshhiggins
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To: TMD

Oldeconomy,

I’m Methodist, but decided to follow tradition a few years ago and go “meatless” on Fridays. In our modern society, it is way easy to go meatless with lots of options. Still, it has been rewarding spiritually.

Heaven forbid that secular schools might be in tune with many of their students and simply have meatless Fridays. Fish sticks? On no! No religion in schools.

This whole meatless Mondays stuff is so leftist it makes me sick.

Sorry, that’s my opinion.

Oldplayer


23 posted on 09/09/2014 4:50:10 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: joshhiggins

That wouldn’t make sense.

“The Friday Fast is an Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays.

According to Pope Peter of Alexandria, the Friday fast is done in commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday.

Abstinence is colloquially referred to as “fasting” although it does not necessarily involve a reduction in the quantity of food.”

Source: Wikipedia


24 posted on 09/09/2014 4:55:40 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
Chicken is meat.

This just in...SUN RISES IN EAST.

25 posted on 09/09/2014 4:55:42 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Meat is expensive. If I’m skimping on it at home, why shouldn’t it be limited in tax subsidized school lunches? Those receiving the free and reduced breakfasts and lunches have obama voting parents. Too bad so sad.


26 posted on 09/09/2014 4:56:55 PM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Sorry. I mistakenly thought that you were responding to the subject of this article.


27 posted on 09/09/2014 4:57:10 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

No, the Mississippi school cafeteria fare seemed more interesting.


28 posted on 09/09/2014 5:05:27 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: oldplayer
Heaven forbid that secular schools might be in tune with many of their students and simply have meatless Fridays.

My public elementary school (1960s) always had meatless Fridays: fish sticks, "tuna boat with cheese sail," macaroni and cheese. No shocker, the district was mostly Irish and Italian. And some Jewish kids, who, if they practice their faith, know a lot about fasting and abstinence.

I think it's called being "sensitive" to the local culture, right? But nobody used that expression then. Someone would kick your butt if you did.

29 posted on 09/09/2014 5:50:11 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That keep using that word “meat.” Nothing I ever had pushed on me in a government cafeteria had any resemblance to meat.


30 posted on 09/09/2014 5:58:18 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: SamuraiScot

When I was in high school in the early 60s, our cafeteria served fish on Fridays. I doubt there were more than a dozen Catholics in the entire school system.

No one complained about it despite the fact that the vast majority of students were Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist or Pentecostal.


31 posted on 09/09/2014 5:58:41 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: ilgipper

Long ago, San Francisco has surrendered and become the No. 1 wimp city in America. These leftist jellyfish would surrender to a cupcake recipe.


32 posted on 09/09/2014 6:15:10 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: yarddog
No one complained about it despite the fact that the vast majority of students were Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist or Pentecostal.

As I recall, fish on Fridays was not uncommon among Protestants then, either, was it? . . . I mean, despite the existence of such expressions as "mackerel snapper" for Catholic?

(My father, who had an Irish Catholic mother, told me that one.)

33 posted on 09/09/2014 6:17:27 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

I don’t recall Fridays having any special meaning to our family or our church.

One of the reasons we didn’t mind fish on Fridays was it was in no way a sacrifice to us. We liked it as well as any other meal.

Interestingly, our cafeteria served good food. Their rolls were always great. They tasted almost as well as they smelled and that aroma was fine.


34 posted on 09/09/2014 6:29:14 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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