Why are schools serving meat?

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Anonymous wrote:Are you a vegan? Do you wear leather?

No, but I only rarely eat animal products from the farmer’s market when I know where they came from.

Then, you cannot speak if you eat animal products. If you are eating meat, then why is this even an issue.

So, none of your shoes, including sneakers are leather? Are your kids leather?

(I am a vegetarian/no leather and don't take people like you seriously as you are fake in your concern).

I don’t eat meat. Sometimes I eat milk or eggs or honey.

Then, stop pushing vegan. How about fish?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are you going to serve instead that most kids will eat? Give me a 5 day sample menu.

I'm still waiting on the sample menu...

[Anonymous]

I gotta ask: where is everyone commenting from? Once upon a time I thought DCUM threads mostly had just people from the DC metro area. But recently....man the Schools and General Discussion has just jumped the shark.

[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.

We don’t agree that meat is bad for your health.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are you going to serve instead that most kids will eat? Give me a 5 day sample menu.

I'm still waiting on the sample menu...

I was hoping to see this as well. I was also hoping to see some acknowledgment of the fact that many students, particularly older students who are POC may be lactose intolerant, so when you leave out meat, minimize dairy, and go peanut free, and have extremely low and restricted budgets as well as kitchens that are often set up to heat food rather than to prepare it from scratch, menus of meals that students will actually eat and that meet nutritional standards might be a challenge. This would be an even more difficult challenge if we can agree that white flour, hydrogenated oils, and large amounts of sugars and sodium should also be minimized.

So: waiting.

[Anonymous]

God this is such a good troll!!! It is *just* barely believable that someone could be this much of an a$$hole and also dumb enough to not realize that this is an absurd position.

Seriously, very well done.

[Anonymous]

They're out in full force this week.

[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.

Good lord, because many people like meat. What if they took away all the vegetarian options? Or are you just pissed because they don't serve enough varieties of bunny feed?

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Anonymous wrote:The meat industry is subsidized by thrr Ed gift snd feeding more people meat helps the economy.

What?

Sorry by the government*

It all comes down to $$$

[Anonymous]

Money. Meals needs to be cheap including prep and labor and calorically dense and meet dietary requirements (if you have issues with those thats another thing). And since schools dont have kitchens, food needs to be prepared offsite and delivered and heated. So no nice fresh veg soup everyday. In an ideal world, there would be gardens kids help work on and that food and more fresh food would be delivered to school kitchens where cooks would make fresh food accounting for regional and demographic balance of the school and include international cuisines and noone would need to bring lunch We are what we eat after all.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Good lord, because many people like meat. What if they took away all the vegetarian options? Or are you just pissed because they don't serve enough varieties of bunny feed?

Many schools don't have veggie options so its a non-issue. However this person is not a vegan so the post makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are you going to serve instead that most kids will eat? Give me a 5 day sample menu.

I'm still waiting on the sample menu...

I was hoping to see this as well. I was also hoping to see some acknowledgment of the fact that many students, particularly older students who are POC may be lactose intolerant, so when you leave out meat, minimize dairy, and go peanut free, and have extremely low and restricted budgets as well as kitchens that are often set up to heat food rather than to prepare it from scratch, menus of meals that students will actually eat and that meet nutritional standards might be a challenge. This would be an even more difficult challenge if we can agree that white flour, hydrogenated oils, and large amounts of sugars and sodium should also be minimized.

So: waiting.

Its easy enough to do but most kids will not eat it. There are lots of veggie substitutes.

[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.

If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself and then make the ... change

[Anonymous]

Meat is not unhealthy. Stop pushing your vegan narrative.

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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.

That is a lie. A meat free diet is not a healthier diet

It’s just like you COVID nuts to not believe in science

You’re a moron. Stop eating all the garbage around you.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15927927/

Meat is healthy!