“10 Things I Hate About You” And Vegetarian School Lunches
Written by Vegetarian Star on April 27th, 2010 in Children, Film & TV, Food & Drink, Videos.
Last week’s 10 Things I Hate About You featured Kat Stratford winning one for the team by getting her school to offer Meatless Mondays.
However, the student council member she teamed up with to get it passed didn’t tell her he was going to set up a pepperoni pizza stand on the same day declaring war on the vegetarian movement.
Ah, politics.
There is real progress happening in schools, however, to make vegetarian meals the norm, and the South Florida Miami-Dade school district has offered these for a long time.
Recently, the district added three new options to its menu: faux chicken nuggets, veggie burgers and hummus platters.
And no, kids aren’t pitching tents on the football field offering cold cuts to counteract this.
“We’re offering these items on the menu, and not seeing trays and trays go into the garbage can,” said Penny Parham to the Miami Herald, who oversees food services in the district.
If passed, the Healthy School Meals Act, H.R. 4870, introduced by representative Jared Polis, will offer school districts across the nation to test the introduction of vegetarian foods and non dairy beverages into their menus over the next couple of years.
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