CNN’s Lou Dobbs finds himself stirring the pot once again with a segment on Monday evening’s show blasting a new policy in Baltimore schools – going veggie one day a week by offering up a vegetarian lunch on Mondays.
Predictably, the American Meat Institute, a trade organization of processors and packers, were quick to decry the new policy. American’s over-reliance on meat as a source of protein, however, has been soundly linked to a myriad of our country’s health challenges.
There’s meat and there’s meat, as well. Few cafeteria lunches feature grass-fed angus beef or organic, free-range chicken breast. Too often, the “meat” school districts can afford is comprised of the lowest cuts, processed and shaped into logs, stars, or cartoon characters and then deep-fried in trans-fat laden oils.
Skipping the processed, deep-fried, machine-shaped nuggets once a week…unhealthy indoctrination or the ingredients for healthy living?
How about, Congratulations to Baltimore for giving kids an introduction to real food?
For more information: Read all about it and watch the video at the Huffingtonpost.
Comments
Right on! Great post.
I wonder what Lou eats for lunch. ;-)
Keep up the good work.
Unhealthy indoctrination we see every day as a commercial on tv, on billboards, hidden in TV-programs with "famous" cooks.
Couldn't they at least have made it meatless FRIDAY? But I suppose that would raise the ire of the ACLU regarding separation of church and state.
This clown is irrelevant. Shame on CNN for keeping this monster on the air. Send him over to Nazi Germany as a minister of propaganda. That would fit him nicely!
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