Posted on 11/11/2012 4:39:33 AM PST by Pinkbell
Los Angeles is hoping to persuade people to become vegetarian – at least one day per week. Under a resolution unanimously approved by the city council this week, all future Mondays in the City of Angels have been declared "Meatless Mondays."
It's part of an international campaign to cut down on meat consumption for health and environmental reasons.
Both the spiritual home of the hamburger and a haven for the health-obsessed, Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to support the Meatless Monday campaign. The nonprofit initiative, started in 2003, is associated with Johns Hopkins University's public health school.
Councilwoman Jan Perry, who introduced the motion with Councilman Ed Reyes, noted the environmental impacts of meat production, and she emphasized that a high-meat diet has been linked to health problems such as colon, prostate, kidney and breast cancers, as well as heart disease.
"Eating less meat can prevent and even reverse some of our nation's most common illnesses," Perry said.
"We've become disconnected in some ways from the simple truth that our health is directly affected by the foods we eat,'' she added.
Her motion posted 12-0 in a council session Friday.
Reyes said it is easy for individuals to feel helpless in the face of issues as big as global warming or the obesity epidemic, "but the small changes we make every day can have a tremendous impact. That's why this 'Meatless Monday' resolution is important. Together we can better our health, the animals and the environment, one plate at a time.''
The council resolution referred to the link between livestock and environmental problem, and noted that reduced consumption of animal-based foods can "lower our carbon footprint."
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A diet high in anything will cause health problems. That is because we are omnivores. We are supposed to eat a diet that contains a little of all food groups.
There is no evidence that eating all vegetarian will have an impact on the environment. Livestock eat plant matter that we can't eat. I am not at all sure that converting crops to only foods that humans can eat is possible, and I have never seen an analysis. However, human health would suffer if there were an effort to force vegetarianism on everyone. Just like health would suffer with attempts to force a low sodium diet on everyone.
There will be food rationing in the name of fairness.
In this country we have more food than we need.
Other countries don't have enough food.
Therefore, in fairness, we must redistribute the ‘food” wealth to other countries.
“Cults put their members on a low protein diet...”
And do you want to be seated in `chanting’ or `nonchanting’?
;^)
It’s going to be Rice and beans after the tax increases
This will go from a campaign “encouraging” people not to eat meat on Mondays to LA passing a law that no meat can be sold in stores or restaurants on Mondays. Watch.
The wackos have a super majority in Cali now. Nothing to stop the madness.
“A diet high in anything will cause health problems. That is because we are omnivores. We are supposed to eat a diet that contains a little of all food groups.”
We should diversify to reduce risk, just like with our stock portfolios.
Corollary: taking in most of the revenue from a small number of taxpayers is a bad idea.
I don’t eat beef or pork because I feel bad eating pigs and cows. Chickens, turkeys and fish can go to hell. I eat them all day long. :D
MS-13 goes vegan.
“Chickens, turkeys and fish can go to hell. I eat them all day long”
Sounds like you need some pepto bismol
The Cripps and Bloods share veggie recipes and do potluck on Mondays.
Gee, I guess no meat on Friday was too close to religion for Kalifornia Commie Government; after all, have to separate Church and Communist STATE.
Eat More Chickin'
That’s scary. Really scary. The New Order is here.
How about Government-Free Mondays? Live like a FREE MAN (and I am using that in the old-fashioned way - no s/he for me).
Exactly! It’s just another way of “nudging” the masses into doing what they’re going to have to do anyway...once the leftist policies are in full-fledged destruction mode.
Me too.
We ate a lot of grilled cheese and tomato soup when I was a kid.
lol Well of course I was exaggerating it’s not all day long. I do eat some meat protein once a day though.
Unofficially, it would be funny to designate Mondays as “PETA Beater” days, without specifying what that means.
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