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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This will be followed by "Foodless Friday".
With the coming economic collapse, angelinos will have “foodless” days.
I’ll agree to this, if we get to have “Taxless Tuesdays” in return.
Don’t post these kind of images. Thanks!
Growers kill thousands of wild animals to protect the crops so their buyers can chow down on greens and veggies, then set back and pat their full bellies and say....”I’m better than you because ‘I’ don’t eat meat!”
If I were in LA, I would fire up the smelly charcoal grill and grill burgers, pork steaks, beef steaks, chicken and enjoy while the neighbors are eating their grass. Freeze what I don’t eat and enjoy MEAT all week long!
How long before meatless Mondays become mandatory?
I’m sure glad they are working on their failing economy.
I had a friend in the Army who had a lot of wild cats that lived in their barn. Every few years the cats got really stupid from inbreeding and he’d go out and shoot most of them with a .243.
Once the dollar implodes, you'll be grateful to get anything to eat at all.
Which is why they are doing everything they can to destroy it.
If they passed some sort of resolution like that around where I live, I’d make it a point to have a huge barbecue on that day.
It will be for the Children, dontcha know.
When Obamacare kicks in. It will be about lowering health care costs. Every muscle you move, 24/7 will be about health care.
That BS was totally ignored in my home!!!!
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Just change the dates.
I returned to the still-somewhat-required practice when I converted to Catholicism 6 years ago. England and Wales I think have made it mandatory again.
When the left starts obsessing over something like they have food for the last 4 years, you know they are about to push for some type of control.
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