kathryn f.

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  Baltimore City Is First “Meatless Monday” School System

  It was great to learn about the Meatless Mondays movement going on in Baltimore. Not only do I think that a vegetarian menu one day a week will help kids learn new ways to eat vegetables and plant-based meals, I'm also excited about how this is going to better the environment and help us move towards a sustainable America.

  
  

  I've been reading Food Matters by Mark Bittman, and according to his book, "Eating a typical family-of-four steak dinner is the rough equivalent, energy-wise, of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights on at home... If we each ate the equivalent of three fewer cheeseburgers a week, we'd cancel out the effects of all the SUVs in the country. Not bad." Baltimore has over 200 public schools alone and feeds hundreds of thousands of kids, imagine the amount of energy they will help save by eliminating meet for just one day a week! I hope more school systems across the country will learn from Baltimore and hopefully join in on the campaign. Together the difference could be tremendous.

  
  

  Obviously the American Meat Institute is staunchly opposed to what Baltimore is doing, claiming they do not have the right to not give students the choice between eating meat or not. I saw this segment on CNN in this morning:

  
  

  http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/10/20/sylvester.meat.mondays.cnn?iref=videosearch

  
  

  I hope that politics as usual does not weaken what is happening in Baltimore's Public School System and the potential it has. Join the Meatless Mondays Movement in support!