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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The entitlement in this thread, wow.  For some kids, school lunch is the only real meal they get.  Should it be high quality?  Yes!  But we should not force OP's dietary choices on kids who might not get food elsewhere.

FWIW, I was vegetarian for more than a decade and vegan for several years.  I feel much, much better eating meat.[/quote]

You are a sample-size of one.  And it’s only your opinion.

A vegetarian diet is better for kids, better for the economy, and better for the environment.

There is no planet B ![/quote]

My kids were in a pre-school a few years ago that decide to go with a vegetarian meal service.  It was a higher end vegetarian service and our tuitions went up significantly because the food service cost more.  If we did not want the vegetarian meal service, we could send in any peanut and tree nut free lunches, but the cost of the meal service was baked into the tuition.  By Christmas, I was back to packing lunches because my kids only ate half of what was served and they were hungry and cranky by the end of the day, so we started packing lunches.  By Spring break, they were throwing away so much food and more than half of the families were sending in lunches.  The school canceled the meal service and adjusted the tuition the following year and everyone just packed and sent lunches.

My kids will eat vegetarian periodically, but they said that the lunch options were not good unless you were vegetarian all the time.  But many of the omnivorous children did not like the vegetarian choices that were offered.  So many of them were eating the sides and not the entrees and not getting enough to eat.  I think less than 1/4 of the children were actually eating the lunches when they discontinued the service.[/quote]

The problem was: surely they gave up too soon.

What they should have done was to continue the service, and also encourage the parents to go vegan / vegetarian at home.[/quote]

You're being ridiculous.  If they had continued the food service and tried to encourage parent to go vegan/vegetarian at home, many of the families would have looked for alternative preschools for their children and this preschool would have had trouble staying in business.

Vegetarianism is a choice.  And not one you can force on people.  You are a tiny majority of the population and the much larger majority doesn't want to be forced to follow your choice.  And ultimately, the school was a business and they were going to lose clients if they continued on that path.  The school opted to stop the meal program entirely and just have the parents provide their children's meals.  [/quote]

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