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Way to go Baltimore City Public Schools! As a substitute teacher in four public schools in Pennsylvania, I see a lot of what is served for “lunchâ€. I get physically nauseated when I walk around the lunchroom and see what kids eat that is served by the schools. It is a sad statement about our society, that we don’t serve high quality food to our children at school. We should be nourishing their brains instead of fattening up their waistlines. Thank you BCPS for leading the way for more schools to follow!
We all know that getting in plenty of fruits and vegetables is the smartest thing we can do for our health on a regular basis. Sadly though, many of us do not take this information to heart. Instead we pack our diet with ‘fruit and vegetable replacements’ such as fruit juice, V8 juice, fruit flavored bars, fruit cups, and so on.
While these will provide some nutrition, you’re really missing out on everything whole fruit has to offer, so you’ll be so much better off if you just go with the decision to have real fruit instead.
I love the idea of meatless Mondays, especially for those who are just starting to cut back on their meat consumption, and especially after the weekend when folks are more likely to eat out.
Thank you so much for everything that you do. You are an inspiration to so many people.
That’s pretty cool, but milk isn’t exactly better for the environment. I have an idea: soy milk! Soy is an environmental issue, but the majority of soy we grow is fed to animals. So if we feed soy to ourselves instead of the cows whose milk we’re taking, this is beneficial to the environment!
Why don’t we take all protein out of our diets and see what happens to the long term health and sustainability of our population. I can say I am very happy that my child is not part of the Baltimore School System, this is a horrible idea! Showing the kids how to grow their own food, however is fantastic, more people need to have an understanding of what it takes to put food on the plate. Then the general public would have a better appreciation of the American Farmer and how incredibly efficient they are.
I think this is an awesome initiative! If you look at all the shifts in North American society over the past 30 years, the secret to success was educating the youth. Like wearing seatbelts, not smoking (yes, there has been huge success in this area) and environmental issues such as recycling, shifting to a meatless society tomorrow will be achieved by teaching the facts and benefits in the schools today.
Preventive health is of paramount importance. It can save the taxpayers and the health care industry billions of dollars. Unfortunately, it is often too late and the person either succumbs to cardiac arrest or a stroke and is impaired for life or dead in a few years. Doctors make more money in surgery than educating their patients on preventive health. The choices we make in life are crucial to a healthy lifestyle. All too often we ignore healthy choices and embark on junk food, red meats, etc.
The media advertisements are part to blame bombarding us with thousands of unhealthy foods loaded with salt, saturated fats, etc. But what I have noticed is some people especially morbid obese are still eating saturated potato chips or greasy hamburgers! They eat so fast that it is any wonder how their digestive system is able to absorb these types of food. By eating rapidly like a machine they fail to enjoy their food. Thus they will eat more beyond the point of ‘fullness’. What they need to do is to slow down the unhealthy eating habits by slowly crunching the food so that it is small enough to digest. One good exercise is to have them chew on bread, preferably whole wheat for thirty-two times before permitting it to enter the esophagus and eventually the stomach where the enzymes will begin to digest the food. If they educated themselves by reading the back of labels they would probably make a healthy choice to eat more fruit and vegetables in their diet.
We share meatless Monday recipes and the website EVERY Monday on our Facebook page and have spread the word via our blog as well! http://www.facebook.com/cwuwonline
This is fantastic and actually makes me proud to be from Baltimore! The idea that you can only get protein from meat is downright ignorant. My husband and I go meatless 3-5 times a week and we’re totally healthy. Not only is it more environmentally responsible, but it’s cheaper and forces us to be creative with our cooking.
I think that this is a reasonable initiative. Being an overweight woman I wish that I had been aware of these things growing up. They are not taking anything away from these children they are educating them about healthy initiatives. Their parents can continue to feed them whatever they want at home so don’t go starting about that their childhood is being robbed. These people are doing what they are supposed to be doing. EDUCATING THE CHILDREN. Way to go! Lucy.
What a significant and critical interview with Dr. Essylsten. He’s a role model for surgeons and patients alike. His research and practice is ideal and identifies the solution to our healthcare crisis. If physicians would spend 5 hours explaining to their patients the implications of nutrition on their health and delineate how to put it into practice, we could minimize the need for medical and surgical intervention, saving thousand of lives and billions of dollars!
I am all for buying local and supporting local growers and businesses. The locivore lifestyle is not the most environmentally friendly way to go in all cases, though. Sometimes, it’s actually more harmful to the environment. You have to look at things like how the produce is raised, if chemicals were used in the farming and, if so, which ones were used, how efficient the transport from farm to market is…there’s a list of factors. Kudos to Baltimore schools for showing kids meatless options. I wonder if cafeteria food is the best way to go about doing it, though.
Until we acknowledge the importance of PREVENTION no amount or kind of healthcare is going to help this and other senseless diseases from taking a huge toll on the lives of Americans. Healthcare is not only a money issue, but a psychological issue as well. When someone has gone their entire lives on cholesterol and blood pressure medicine only to have their chest cracked opened at the age of 60, it takes a lot of wind from their sails. Yes, we do need to find a way to save money, but even if prevention costs more, as some skeptics say, overall the outcome is going to be a much better quality of life which is priceless. I’d rather eat well and take care of my body now and live 10 years longer than to “do whatever” now and spend those last 5 years in and out of a hospital.
Thank you to the Baltimore City Public Schools to give hope and insurance to the children and their families that we can live in a better world. It’s a great start! Je suis un enseignant vegan dans une école secondaire au Québec et j’espère que ce mouvement sera un exemple inspirant pour ici et le reste du monde.
I wanted to sincerely thank you for your recipes. Our family is now more like meat once a week, than previously everyday. It all started with Meatless Mondays! Thanks so much.
Everyone should be able to give up meat one-day a week. I will be promoting it on my blog every week. If it makes just one person change, it will be worth it.
I have spent more than 100 hours searching out high quality recipe videos that demonstrate vegetarian cooking. See great chefs from across the world demonstrating meatless protein dishes. Take a look for yourself:
http://www.tpss.coop/recipes.html
Going Meatless on Monday is a great idea and I think it can be easily implemented one day out of the week. I can not wait to see what foods and recipes my professor at Winthrop University will be introducing to us this coming Monday during lab. I will definitely take Meatless Mondays and implement it into my life and relationship.
Going Meatless on Mondays sounds like a very beneficial program in terms of helping ourselves and the entire planet. I wonder if it isn’t something that could be implemented into weekly life at colleges and universities.
Meatless Monday should be an interesting task to get some of my family and friends to do. It seems like a great idea to at least be a vegetarian one day a week.
I find Meatless Mondays to be an excellent way to save our environment, animals, energy, money, and mainly health. Only one day a week without meat has such significant outcome that I would love to convince my family to follow the campaign. I am sure they will join me and we will use all various delicious recipes that are applied for a meatless meal.
This is a great way to get started if someone wants to become a vegetarian!
I found this to be very interesting. I never realized how much water went into producing just one pound of raw beef. This seems to be a simple task in helping the world. Meatless Mondays is also an easy way into leading into becoming a vegetarian!
Meatless Mondays would definitely be a great opportunity to practice vegetarianism. Starting off with just one day a week, a person wanting to become a vegetarian would eventually get used to not eating meat on a daily basis if that person would keep up with the routine. I, personally, don’t think I would be able to do meatless Mondays because I wouldn’t realize that I’ve eaten meat until after I’ve eaten it.
For those trying to reduce their meat consumption, Meatless Mondays are the perfect way to go. It allows individuals to still have meat while slowly weening themselves to a vegetarian or strictly vegan diet. However, if converting to different dietary lifestyles is not what you are after, this initiatives still allows you to save the world by reducing the amount of energy, water, and gasoline used to create meat products.
Meatless Mondays are an easy, yet powerful way of maintaining good health and preserving the environment. After trying this for myself, I realized how easy it is to just skip meat products for a day. In addition, I encouraged my friends and family to try it with me. We were all surprised by the significant impact that Meatless Mondays have on the earth. My hope is that more people will become aware of it, try it and spread the word to others. It’s simple, free and benefits your health and the world we live in. Now who’s with me?
I had no idea Meatless Mondays held so many benefits. It’s health and environmental advantages, especially the ones on gas, are astounding. Meatless Mondays should be more promoted as a solution and perhaps placed in more schools.
Southwestern Squash Stew. My first meatless monday recipe, and now I’m hooked and am having it again today, on a Thursday! My husband, a picky eater loved it and ate most of it by himself. So easy and good for you.
Meatless Mondays is a great idea! It helps show everyday Americans how easy it is to go a day without meat and will hopefully persuade them to eat less meat more often.
I have pledged to go meatless on Mondays in 2010 and will post a vegetarian recipe every Monday on my blog, http://www.stilllifewithwhisk.wordpress.com. Viva Meatless Monday!
I love the idea of meatless mondays! That is such a simple thing to do that can help our enviroment and health greatly! I’m inspired, so I’m going to pledge to go meatless on mondays.
I love this idea, and have been researching it’s benefits, after watching food inc. I’ve made a big push to get the word out I have made speeches to my classes about factory farming, and talked to my teacher about having a debate on meatless monday, we are having it tomorrow!
thanks for all the helpful information of this websight
Gretchen Beyer-14 years old
Hello: Passover and Easter will be here before too long. These are holidays that often have meat as a central part of the festival. That can change with your help. Please supply some non-meat/vegetarian/vegan recipes for these festivals.
I wish meatlessmonday.com was available also in spanish so we could be able to expand this campaign through México, Spain, and the whole Latinamerican countries. It’s such a great idea, and very easy to achieve.
Are you kidding me? Yes I can see buying local grass fed beef. But has nobody seen how when we went low fat, lower protein we increased our carbs and we have become fatter & more unhealthy then ever. I continue to eat meat every day as I am trying to improve my health after years of low fat high carb dieting. People do the research.
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I’d like to start up Meatless Monday in New Zealand. Can someone contact me please and talk about your criteria for partnerships in this regard?
We are starting a Meatless Monday campaign at my university. Is there information you could send us or schools you could put us into contact with that would be able to help us out with our process? To communicate with them would be great so that we know what direction to go in. We already started a signatures page of students who would like it so that when we present to our school’s catering service we have support. Any other ideas/information you could give would be great! I appreciate it and hope to talk to someone soon!
I started the meatfree Mondays when Macca asked for all to join. Since that time I have not eated meat on Mondays and have even added a couple of more days a week. Actually my cholesterol has gone down and my good cholesterol has gone up. This is a great thing and I am actaully enjoying the foods. I have bought about 4 or 5 of Linda McCartneys’ cookbooks and I am really enjoying the food and yes, I am saving our planet and myself. Thanks Macca, you are correct, we must save our world and planet. I feel good about what I have done and will continue to have meatfree Mondays for the rest of my life. Who knows, I might even become a vegetarian.
I don’t understand. We produce the safest and best product in the world with the least impact on the environment. We meet or exceed all of the enviromental regulations imposed on our businesses, everyday is “earth day” on Americas family farms and ranches. We have scientific studies showing the benefits of meat as a protien source, yet you create meatless monday. I will encourage all of my contacts to eat meat for all three of mondays meals.
My blog, The Delightful Repast (delightfulrepast.blogspot.com), is brand-new but will be featuring many meatless recipes. I have been a part-time vegetarian — I think they’ve now come up with a single word for it, “flexitarian” — all my life. There are many benefits to a meatless diet, benefits to our individual health as well as the health of the planet. I was thrilled to discover the Meatless Monday site just today through a comment on Cooking with Amy. When I have a meal with meat, I feel much better if I have a small portion of meat and large portions of vegetables. It’s unfortunate that people who eat meat are sometimes made to feel “under attack” by people who don’t. I’ve found that inviting people over for a delicious, satisfying meatless meal makes more converts, if you will, than all the harsh words in the world.