Meatless Mondays in the Schools!
September 24th, 2009 | Published in The Carnivorous World | 1 Comment
Kudos to Baltimore for having the first school-system-wide Meatless Monday lunches! Meatless Monday was started by Johns Hopkins University as a campaign to promote healthy eating. Baltimore is believed to be the first school to implement the plan into the school lunch system. In addition to Meatless Monday, they have made other significant changes, including replacing deep-fat-fryers with large scale ovens, and using local produce.
I’m sure the schools have sent (or will send) some sort of literature on the health benefits of incorporating local produce and Meatless Mondays into children’s diets. But I hope they teach the kids the benefits these small changes will have on our lovely planet, as well. I won’t bore you with facts today, but the short of it is that the meat industry has a pretty dismal effect on our planet, and going meatless one day a week will reduce your contribution to that. I really hope Baltimore takes advantage of this opportunity to teach kids how this little change is can have a big benefit for our planet’s health.
Read the full article, here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bal-md.gr.lunch24sep24,0,2342398,full.story
September 24th, 2009 at 6:21 pm (#)
Well, look who is blogging again! Welcome back!
And this is awesome.