Why are schools serving meat?

[Anonymous]

meat is far too cheap, taking into account the negative impact of mass meat production on the environment. If the real costs were charged, consumption would certainly fall.
Why all or nothing? You don't need meat for a healthy diet, entire nations can get by without it. But a lot would be done for the environment (and one's own health) if consumption were limited to one or two days a week. That would be possible for schools also.

[Anonymous]

Americans, along with Australians, have the highest per capita meat consumption in the world, it's three times the global average, and Americans don't look particularly healthy ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think OP has a good point, if only for environmental reasons.

Do you know how many rabbits are murdered for crop fields?

How much gas is burned shipping coconut oil and almond milk and avocados?

The most environmentally sound thing would be to feed the children local pastured chicken, pork and beef along with locally grown corn, peaches, apples, tomatoes, zucchini and other things that grow well here.

The best thing to do would be to have the chickens and a fresh vegetable garden on site so that the chickens could eat breakfast and lunch scraps and their manure could be composted for use at the garden.

FCPS could have a magnet school for regenerative agriculture, natural health and homesteading with the high school children learning how to manage animals, market products and preserve the harvest.

+1. and add a cooking program!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans, along with Australians, have the highest per capita meat consumption in the world, it's three times the global average, and Americans don't look particularly healthy ...

I can't believe we beat out Argentinians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans, along with Australians, have the highest per capita meat consumption in the world, it's three times the global average, and Americans don't look particularly healthy ...

But Australians do. It doesn’t have to do with meat.

[Anonymous]

They should not be allowed to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should not be allowed to.

You vegetarians really need to go and start your own colony somewhere and leave the majority alone. You are welcome to choose not to eat meat. Stop trying to force your choices on others, especially kids. Like everyone else, they can choose to eat vegetarian, and I'll all for having vegetarian options for them, but stop trying to force others to adhere to your diet. Many of us disagree with you and think that including some animal based proteins are better for growing children, so you do you and leave the rest of us alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should not be allowed to.

You vegetarians really need to go and start your own colony somewhere and leave the majority alone. You are welcome to choose not to eat meat. Stop trying to force your choices on others, especially kids. Like everyone else, they can choose to eat vegetarian, and I'll all for having vegetarian options for them, but stop trying to force others to adhere to your diet. Many of us disagree with you and think that including some animal based proteins are better for growing children, so you do you and leave the rest of us alone.

+1. Meat is protein. The body needs protein. Stop judging and imposing your beliefs on others

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans, along with Australians, have the highest per capita meat consumption in the world, it's three times the global average, and Americans don't look particularly healthy ...

American health issues don’t come from eating meat. They come from eating too many processed carbs and sugar. A high protein, high fat diet is perfectly healthy and is consistent with what humans have eaten for tens of thousands of years. A diet full of sugar and processed carbohydrates is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Americans, along with Australians, have the highest per capita meat consumption in the world, it's three times the global average, and Americans don't look particularly healthy ...

American health issues don’t come from eating meat. They come from eating too many processed carbs and sugar. A high protein, high fat diet is perfectly healthy and is consistent with what humans have eaten for tens of thousands of years. A diet full of sugar and processed carbohydrates is not.

unless you are prone to kidney stones, then a Mediterranean diet is better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Americans, along with Australians, have the highest per capita meat consumption in the world, it's three times the global average, and Americans don't look particularly healthy ...

Widespread use of seed oils, high fructose corn syrup and riding every where are factors along with the popularization of snacking these last few decades are major factors. Add in the weird chemicals and processed rather than fresh generally and you see the issues. We ain’t never been vegetarian sweetheart and were thinner in the days before widespread soy consumption.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe because only approximately 1 in 200 children in the US are vegetarian.

Okay I’m vegan and not vegetarian but she has a point. We know a meat free or less meat diet is healthier. We can change this numbers so more kids will grow up vegetarian. We need to model healthy behavior.

Schools do offer a vegetarian and vegan-ish options.
It wouldn't be healthy though. It would be even more processed foods and loaded complex carbs.
Now if you said let's try and have 1-2 WHOLE food vegan breakfast & lunch a week, okay. Now that might be a good place to start trying to include new healthy options.
But, most schools already have a couple vegetarian meals each week. They are heavy on beans and unfortunately really heavy on cheese & pasta, or breads (cheese pizza). None of which is ethically sourced or from local farms so environmentally probably not a major impact there. Health wise if they want it cheap, easy to mass produce and somewhat shelf stable not likely. Not you want to talk buying local, good paying jobs & or job skills programs for high school to have meals made fresh in each school I would be interested in that conversation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We know that the meat industry is inherently bad and more expensive. Why are we spending all of this money on school lunches (in a normal year) promoting bad eating habits?

Frankly I wouldn’t mind straight vegan but I know there would be some objections to that one.

Lol.

Troll.

Take your special diet and restrictions and go restrict your own family not everyone else’s.

[Anonymous]

Here's an alternative to slaughtering animals that maybe will get the vegetarians and vegans satisfied. Lab cultured meats. Animals are not raised for slaugher and none of the environmentally dangerous issues from the farming of animals. Instead, the meat cultivated in a lab from animal cells. The animals are not harmed, but the cells are replicated in a laboratory environment that duplicates the environment in animal bodies.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/health/lab-grown-meat-pros-cons-life-itself-wellness-scn/index.html

[Anonymous]

Why do schools teach math?

I don’t like it and neither do my children. Cancel it!