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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.

Meat-Free Mondays, forbidding window advertising on Muni buses and closing a loophole in the city's plastic bag ban -- all in a day's work for the Board of Supervisors. The board on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution by Supervisor Sophie Maxwell declaring every Monday "Vegetarian Day" or "Veg Day," which encourages restaurants, grocery stores and schools to offer more vegetarian fare. The only thing is, it doesn't actually require anything and there is no enforcement capability, just like other resolutions the board passes. Maxwell said it was important to draw attention to the relationship between diet and climate change, citing...

Johns Hopkins' Meatless Utopia Posted On August 20, 2003 A column in yesterday's Washington Post praises a program called "Meatless Monday," which claims the support of 28 schools of public health. However, when the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) called the organizers of Meatless Monday, they would not provide a list of those schools. CCF was told: "The reason that we're not releasing the schools of public health's names is that some of the schools would come under pressure." The individuals who could discuss what kind of pressure that might be, Meatless Monday's representative said, were on vacation -- the...