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Humane Society International announces:
Humane Society International [HSI] in Brazil has teamed up with four cities in the northeastern state of Bahia--Serrinha, Barroca, Teofilandia, and Biritinga--and the local Public Prosecutor Office, to transition all of the meals served at its public school cafeterias to 100 percent plant-based by the end of 2019, reducing meat, dairy, and egg consumption by 25 percent per semester. This marks the first time in history that any school districts have committed to having exclusively plant-based cafeterias. The change will impact over 23 million meals a year [covering 30,000 students].
The launch of the project, called "Escola Sustentável" (Sustainable School), took place on Monday, March 19th, and was followed by four days of plant-based culinary trainings for the cities' school cooks, led by HSI's Chef André Vieland. Chef André taught cooks how to prepare cost-effective, nutritious recipes, using accessible local ingredients. Escola Sustentável's mission is to improve student health, reduce the cities' environmental footprint (especially water consumption), and empower local farmers who will be able to supply the school districts with plant-based foods. Leticia Baird, Brazilian Public Prosecutor for the Environment in the State of Bahia, who led the creation of this program, stated: "Providing our school districts with plant-based meals will help save environmental and public financial resources, allow for a future of healthy adults, and build a fair world for the animals."
Sandra Lopes, food policy manager for HSI in Brazil, stated: "We applaud the cities of Serrinha, Barroca, Teofilandia, and Biritinga for becoming the world's first school districts to commit to going 100 percent plant-based. It's an honor to have worked with city authorities, nutritionists, and school cooks on the adoption and implementation of this initiative, and we're excited to continue working closely with them to ensure the success of this program."
AlterNet adds:
School meals in those cities typically feature animal proteins such as beef, lamb, poultry, fish, eggs, milk, and butter, Brazilian publication Correio reported.[pt-br] Under the new, two-year experimental program, lunches will consist of soy, rice milk, peanut butter (instead of butter), vegetables, root vegetables, grains, and whole-wheat bread.
Definitive implementation of the program will depend on health outcomes of the students after the trial period, according to Correio. Students will undergo periodic tests that count blood, ferritin, vitamin B12, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood glucose levels. Weight, height, and body composition will also be measured.
Families who do not agree with the newly imposed diet can send their students to school with packed lunches from home, [Ms.] Baird [...] said.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:19PM (22 children)
Where is the closest lot that would accommodate building a McDonalds?
If I know anything about school lunches, it's that veggies are not exactly the popular choice. Those kids will kill for a burger...
More seriously: empty stomachs do not promote learning and growing. Save a few bucks, make extremists happy, and therefore fuck up a whole generation?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:26PM (6 children)
Wait. You're suggesting there's a market opportunity for burgers, which I assume implies beef. Why would you then suggest a McDonalds?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:29PM (4 children)
I see hungry kids, I bank on McDo.
I'd rather have The Habit myself, but for max profit, you should give your starving public what they want.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 27 2018, @11:38PM
Do they have enough money to pay for the food, or do you plan to exploit teens labour? Which of the two you bank on, McDo do both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday March 27 2018, @11:49PM
So you want to torture these poor kids more by having the smell of hamburger that they can't afford outside their school?
(Score: 1, Redundant) by dry on Wednesday March 28 2018, @12:04AM
So you want to torture these poor kids with no money by making them smell hamburgers?
(Score: 1) by iru on Wednesday March 28 2018, @02:14PM
Fun fact: Brazilian McDonald meals have higher standards than their American counterparts.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 27 2018, @11:35PM
What exactly do you imply? (I have multiple possible interpretation of your snark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:31PM (4 children)
"taught cooks how to prepare cost-effective, nutritious recipes, using accessible local ingredients." At least they're doing it right.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27 2018, @06:55PM (1 child)
It's been a while since I was in school, but my kids concur with my recollections. School cooks are not known for their delicious offerings. I'd bet that there will be a lot more lunch packers in the future. Or you could do what my youngest did. When he discovered that his friends asked him to share the subs that his dad makes now and then, he went into business at school selling sandwiches. of course, I did not see any of the money to offset my raw material costs. ;-)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday March 28 2018, @12:48PM
Probably varies by district much like everything else education, but it seems common where I live for the design work to be done by the food service manager with a dietician degree at district HQ. If you want a high paying job for life with great bennies related to food, don't get a degree in food hospitality or WTF, stick with BS in dietician sciences or whatever the school district requires.
Kinda like the line workers at McDonalds know how to cook a delicious burger, its just at work all the decisions are made maybe ten corporate levels higher than their station.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 28 2018, @01:06AM
Just hang up some wolfsbane and tell the kids "free lunch! have at it!"
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 28 2018, @06:20AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 5, Insightful) by acid andy on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:07PM
If done properly, a vegan meal won't consist solely of the unpopular veg. Kids aren't carivores! This doesn't mean they have to eat a plate of just boiled cabbage and sprouts. Potatoes, beans, onion rings, in some cases mushrooms, all popular. Some of the kids will love chilli too and rice. They won't have empty stomachs.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday March 27 2018, @09:56PM (8 children)
You assume the stomachs would be empty. You can get your fill from the food, since it is not just all veggies. They have whole grains involved too, and bread is filling. Half the reason why a big burger is filling is because of the bread and fries. Try eating a lettuce wrapped burger, even with cheese, and tell me that you're still not hungry.
I doubt that malnutrition will be a problem since it is a pilot study and they're paying close attention to the children's health. Which I would imagine would be contrasted against scholastic scores too.
This is teaching a whole generation a different, and more sustainable, way of eating.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday March 27 2018, @10:33PM (4 children)
One *can* do attractive and satisfying Vegan food. I've seen it done, often in Chinese restaurants. But this doesn't mean it's easy, and this doesn't mean it's what I expect.
What I really expect is that they'll add enough sugar to everything to make it acceptable. This will eventually show up on the kids weight and glucose measurements, but not for a year or so. At which point they'll quietly call the thing off. But time may tell.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday March 27 2018, @10:38PM (3 children)
If I had to be a strict vegetarian, I'd rush off to India.
If I had to be a strict vegan, I'd rush off the top of a tall building, bridge or cliff.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by linuxrocks123 on Tuesday March 27 2018, @11:38PM (2 children)
Perhaps you should look around you and find more interesting ways to derive pleasure from life than eating food. It's eat to live, not live to eat.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday March 28 2018, @12:05AM (1 child)
Given your screen name, I have to ask how much fun it would be to have to spend all your computer time on Windows 2.0. (not wishing ME or Vista on you, I'm evil, but I may have my limits).
Not eating well is a damper on your whole existence. Like a terrible job you don't want to get out of bed for, but since the family gotta survive...
Anyway, the original comment was more related to the state of mind, since I am not aware of any single medical condition that forces people to give up on everything that's an Abomination Onto Vegan. Turning Vegan would be like turning Zombie, and I'd need one of you to Mercy Me.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday March 28 2018, @04:29PM
There's no single medical condition per se that would force someone to become Vegan. There's also no real reason why you can't eat healthily or unhealthily as a Vegan. Refined Sugar is Vegan and is arguably as bad as or worse than red meat. Meat is also expensive. Poor people can get better quality vegan food to sustain them at a price they can afford. Random hunk of meat != healthy. I've grown up Vegetarian and I've tried various meats. Well prepared meat tastes good. Same goes for Vegetables, Fruits, Nuts, and Grains. Good nutrition isn't about getting a slab of meat or not getting a slab of meat. It's about getting a balanced diet. That diet can include or exclude meat, dairy and eggs. The biggest issue is making sure you're getting good quality meat, dairy and eggs. There's too much industrialized production of them in unhealthy conditions. Pumping all of the animals up with hormones + vaccinations isn't the answer.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Troll) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 28 2018, @01:09AM (1 child)
and if it's a catholic school, the priests will have lots of nutritious protein to give them: the kids only have to suck it up through the 'straw'......
:-%
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:32AM
Troll, huh.
"The humour is weak in this one."
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday March 28 2018, @06:23AM
Grains are veggies.
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