Why are schools serving meat?

[Anonymous]

Our district serves mostly vegan lunches. All the kids complain. They use vegan cheese for mac & cheese.

[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.

Is this a joke?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Is this a joke?

fun fact: the answer is on page 10

[Anonymous]

Let’s all eat curried lentils and sweat it out all day long. Only costs $1!

[Anonymous]

Why are schools using paper? USA schools need to save the trees of the world.

[Anonymous]

How many tons of meat do schools throw away each day?

NP. I am not a troll, and I think giving children a vegetarian lunch is not a terrible thing and is in fact probably a good thing.

Bean and cheese quesadillas, curries, salads with garbonzo beans, chili, stir fries, so many meat free options!

I’m a mostly-vegetarian but recognize that humans are the top of the food chain.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that vegetarian meals done right are good and edible, but vegetarian meals are much more difficult to scale upwards in quantity and volume and still be decent meals. Instead you get a lot of low cost substitutions or mass produced substitutions and you end up with something even more disgusting and inedible than when you have mass produced omnivorous meals.

Those of you thinking about trying to make vegetarian meals in schools are thinking of what you'd be able to make at home or at a vegetarian restaurant, but not what will come out the USDA meal programs with their substitutions. The meatless options of cheese, meat substitutions, and even basic vegetables will not the type or quality of what you would choose trying to make a vegetarian meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

They will. Nothing to be had here except comedic value. Thanks for the laugh Op!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!!

Sign me up!!

[Anonymous]

Which schools are serving meat?

All of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well they can't serve peanut butter like most kids used to eat...

We have sun butter which is better than meat

yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

You are free to consume all the frankenfood you like. I’ll happily continue to consume farm fresh eggs, grass fed beef and local organically grown berries and greens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

You are free to consume all the frankenfood you like. I’ll happily continue to consume farm fresh eggs, grass fed beef and local organically grown berries and greens.

Not me (I'm the PP you're responding to). I'm a happy omnivore. I don't even need to have farm fresh, grass fed, organic things. My family happily consumes standard supermarket fare. I just thought I'd offer that tidbit for those who are trying to push for vegetarian or vegan options due to unethical farming of animals. They could feel better about lab cultured meats and stop pestering others with their food issues.

[Anonymous]

“They could feel better about lab cultured meats and stop pestering others with their food issues.”

+1
If that is the solution awesome! I am sick of sanctimonious people preaching about what others shouldn’t eat.

[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.

I would not have a problem as long as it is soy free too.