Public Schools start enforcing "Meatless Monday" policy on students

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I don't see why public schools should try to appease picky eaters and raging ideologues. Instead of having "meatless monday", vegeterian alternatives need to be removed. It's common sense that it's better to eat all the things we are meant to eat that be picky about it and leave a large group of foods such as meat outside. If parents want to ruin their kids health and social standing we shouldn't be helping them with it. Also, everyone eats pork when it's served. Muslims have caused us enough trouble as it is and Jews don't need any more special treatment. If you don't like the cuisine of this country you can just leave.

 

All anyone needs t do is watch Pixar's Wall-E for a glimpse onto the future.

 

Another place where we could cut cost by supplying less choices and more beans and tofu.

 

But that isn't the truth either. Over eating, and bad/poor eating habits, not eating real foods (too many chemicals, preservatives, and processed garbage that appears to be food) and not having a good variety of real foods is what leads to poor health especially in the developmental years especially when the body and brain needs the most nourishment/vitamins etc... People who eat poorly as yoots, usually pay for it when they get older.

So it isn't a one or the other but a well balanced variety of foods in the appropriate portions that fit the needs of the individual that is important.

 

Or the vegan/vegetarian could bring a lunch since they are the minority in the equation, problem solved. Common sense and logic should dictate every time, not irrational and/or idiotic. See what I did there?

I get it, when you like something it is the governments responsibility to impose it on others but if it is something you don't like, it is the governments responsibility to take that away from others, because you know what is better for everybody else right? There is a word for that mindset, it's "supremacist".

 

...or the schools could just get out of the cafeteria business all together and everybody could bring a lunch, or not. That would save a lot of money.

 

The rate we are going it will look more like a Boy and his Dog.

(spoiler alert) Only the boy will not be communicating with his dog telepathically, he will be delusional and on the verge of insanity, by thinking his dog is talking to him due to a lack of the right kind of proteins in his diet. In reality he would have been better off eating the dog than convincing himself the voice he hears coming from the dog is real, but instead as the movie shows he resorts to cannibalism instead delving further into madness and eventually his own demise.

 

You twist and bend some really weird (*)(*)(*)(*) out of a simple straigtforward and logical statement and then to top it all off you laugh at your own nonsense...weird.

btw...I pay taxes that contribute to public school lunches and I want the kids in my family to eat mostly vegetarian lunches and in fact...I demand it.

 

Agreed.

 

Your choice, send them a lunch. Don't like the option, tough! Not so fun when the shoe isn't on your foot is it?

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They wouldn't allow that, but we both know that.

 

Now I understand. Its not the dishonesty that you object to, its the political party you object to. "Campaign promises" from Democrats are ok, but not from Republicans. Why didn't you just say that in the beginning instead of trying to act like a politician?

 

Nice broadbrush against all conservatives. Do you think it equally just when people lambaste all socialists as being murderous asshats like Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev?

 

something for the hard right to worry about, most serious lefties are well armed.

 

I'll explain this as if I'm talking to a three year old and make it simple...

The thread title clearly says "Meatless Monday" and Monday is just one of 5 days of the school week, which means that out of 5 days just 1 day is designated meatless. Do you get it now? If any compromise and/or relenting is to be done, it is left up to the people that have kids that will get to eat eat meat 4 of the 5 days of the school week, while the parents that prefer meatless lunches just get 1 day for ther kids to eat a healthier vegetarain lunch. Are you really that belligerntly stubborn and closed minded or are you in the commerical meat packing or slaughtering industry?

 

If my kid was subjected to this his "lunchbox" would consist of a serving tray full of delicious brisket for lunch every Monday.

 

"Subjected to this"? Like it's some kind of torture or punishment? LOL I'd lay odds that most, if not all of the people whining about this, don't even serve their kids meat every day anyway...and feeding kids fast food or commercially raised meat and poultry is certainly not doing them any nutritional favors anyway.

 

That deserves some sort of prize for the fastest disproving of the first sentence...

Nice try, but it's your dopey idea, and I'm not even a little bit interested in it.

News flash: Putting words in other peoples' mouths doesn't make you a "winner".


Even Charlie Sheen's not impressed.

 

Unfortunately it reminded me of the Catholic tradition of "meatless Friday". All the sudden it gets complicated again...

 

Yes there are many substitutes. Not the least of which are rice and beans combined to form a 'complete protein'. It is cheap, if seasoned well is delicious and has a bunch of fiber.

 

Meats contain certain nutrients that absolutely nothing else has, and that are an important source of overall development (if you're a child, of course). Even adults.. every vegetarian and vegan I've met seemed to have been physically weak and in poor health. A lot of them (not all) are stuck up, too. This mostly applies to vegans only.

 

Eating tofu is torture and punishment. My kids ate meat everyday. It's good for them and has essential nutrients that aren't available anywhere else.

 

If you are feeding your kids commercially raised beef and poultry you are doing them a disservice. The kids in my family are only given organiclly raised meat/poultry and not every day. They love eggplant parmesan, veggie and cheese ravioli and being that we have quite few really good cooks that have actually catered professionally in the family, anything cooked up is extremely tasty and appetizing. My sister's specialty is Moroccan cuisine and even when it is prepared strictly vegetarian it is out of this world mouth watering. But I do realize that not everyone has the knack for approaching cooking as an art form.

 

You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about and I am not stating that to be rude. You are merely dead on wrong on the points you attempted to make.

 

Most meat we eat is elk and venison. We do buy grass-fed beef and fresh chicken from our butcher. Of course there's also whatever fish we catch, but we're limited by the fishing laws and can't really stock up on fish.

If you're not hunting or fishing, you're doing your kids a disservice.

Also, if you think kids are getting eggplant parmesan, cheese ravioli, and or fantastic Moroccan cuisine for school lunch, you're crazy. It's more like bean and cheese burrito supreme (and the beans are "textured vegetable protein").