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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe because only approximately 1 in 200 children in the US are vegetarian.  :roll: [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.

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