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Way to go, New York City! All 1,200 schools in the New York City public school district will now offer a vegan hummus option every day at the beginning of this school year, thanks to The Coalition for Healthy School Food (CHSF), a non-profit that helps introduce plant-based foods into schools. Vegan options for students that are available on the school’s vegetarian menu will range from Mexicali Chili, Lentil Stew, Lentil Sloppy Joes, Braised Black Beans with Plantains, and Zesty BBQ Crunchy Tofu. These yummy meals will be on rotation for the vegetarian menus.
And this isn’t CHSF‘s first initiative to help students have access to fresh, healthy food. CHSF has worked with the city’s department of education to help three NYC schools, Active Learning Elementary School in Queens (PS244), Peck Slip School in Manhattan (PS343), and The Bergen Elementary School (PS1) in Brooklyn, to transition to an all-vegetarian menu.
How can they have any pudding if they don't eat their meat?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Cinnamon Beige on Saturday October 07 2017, @02:43AM
I'm a lifelong vegetarian--I decided to take no risks on finding out the hard way if I inherited the family inability to digest meat correctly--and I'm not particularly impressed, particularly since I am very used to groups like "The Coalition for Healthy School Food" to tend to cover for not an effort to actually provide students with school lunches that are healthy and edible, or if they are they have a strange, strange delusion that vegan=healthy. (No. No it does not.)
Bets are that this is going to end up like many a past effort to 'improve' school lunches--with a lot of food just plain tossed into the trash.
The one thing to consider with a vegetarian/vegan menu is that it does have the distinct benefit of drastically lowered odds of giving people food poisoning, and given some of the food-handling 'skills' I've seen in school cafeterias... So, well, if you're thinking 'healthy' mostly in the sense of 'will require you be very talented to make anybody sick via fucking up food safety,' a veg menu is an excellent choice. (Salad's about the only vegan option where you really need to worry; everything else, most of the problems will fall into 'cross contamination with meat' in origin, at least if you can't tell if it's good before you start eating...)