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Should the school system be deciding if your child eats meat or not?

Baltimore Schools Go Meatless

http://www.meatlessmonday.com/baltimore-schools/#

The Baltimore City Public School system is about to become the first fully Meatless Monday school system in the U.S. They’re joining a growing international movement of individuals, organizations, communities and cities making the commitment to lower meat consumption and enjoy a plant-based diet on Mondays.

The 80,000 young people BCPS serves will begin each week with a Meatless Monday menu. And that’s not all. The school system has introduced a wide variety of projects to ensure its students eat and learn about healthy, environmentally friendly choices. BCPS has teemed up with local farmers and distributors to provide students fresh, locally raised fruits, vegetables and milk. They’ve also introduced Great Kids Farm, a 33-acre teaching farm, home to chickens, goats and a variety of fruits and vegetables. Educators on the farm teach kids and adults how to produce home-grown fresh food, even in an urban setting. BCPS is also in the process of developing gardens for each of the system’s 200 schools.

We at Meatless Monday hope the example BCPS is setting will help inspire the nation and serve as a model to transform school food systems coast to coast.

 

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Hi Audrey,

DS has never bought a school lunch and he's not a huge meat eater at all. He gets most of his protein from cheese, peanut butter, yogurt, etc.

As for my opinion, my first thought was that it would probably help a food budget to skip the meat once a week. But I think that adding meat in is not a bad thing if it's cooked healthy.  I think the school has decided that children should not eat meat and that should be a family decision.

 

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