Meatless Monday is a campaign that aims to get Americans to cut out burgers and dogs one day each week as a way of trimming the hefty greenhouse gas emissions produced by the livestock industry — 18% of the world’s total carbon output, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
In a big leap forward for the movement, the Baltimore Public School District announced recently it would adopt a Meatless Monday menu for its 80,000 students, saying they wanted to “ensure the kids eat and learn about healthy, environmentally-friendly choices”.
The school system’s actions yesterday earned it the 2009 Award for Visionary Leadership in Local Food Procurement and Food Education from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future.
Our daughter will like this. She goes to school there and doesn’t go near meat.