More School Lunches Going Vegetarian

We are OMNIVORES...not HERBIVORES, or vegetarians. My kids are healthy because I feed them HEALTHY MEAT choices. I am NOT a vegeatarian, and most vegetarians I have seen looked like warmed over DEATH. The schools are doing this "healthy" UNHEALTHY choice crap to charge us the same or more money for school lunches, while giving our kids less. This is unacceptable. We are forced by LAW to send our kids to school, or home school, or private school, but the public schools are becoming less and less of a viable option for educating our kids, while having no conscience over taking our tax money.

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We live in Rockdale County and my daughter has attended schools in this county for 12 years. We have been asking for healthier options with no avail. They do not make their own hot dog and hamburger buns. The majority of the kids eat greasy pizza, french fries and cookies daily. I don't know where these people get their info from.. guess you can't believe everything you read on the internet.

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How can environmentally-possessed Democrats push this "green" agenda onto American kids when these are the same hypocrites who waste thousands of tons of corn each year to manufacture their unnecessary and functionally-ineffective gasoline-alternative (known as ethanol)? These liberal lunatics need to STOP wasting food, START drilling for our OWN oil (like the Chinese and Indians have been doing, 17 miles off of the Florida coast), and STOP indoctrinating American kids into their damned enviro-extremist political religion!!!

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The way the article is presented makes it sound like they are forcing it on the children. The problem is not choice, but bad Journalism. If it is offered as a choice, great. If you are not allowed any other foods, then no, it is not good. Our child has choices in the line of what to get. And, yes, most of the childrens choices are influenced by the parents (what we do & say). If he is told he will no longer have a choice, I will also home school. Very strange that all the people commenting are more worried about name calling than actually trying to work together to find an agreeable solution. We have to be smarter than the children and the school officials. Remember, for every person that believes one way, there is someone that believes the opposite. Just ask the medical "experts" what they think.

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yeah, i am in 8th grade and I am a vegetarian, and the only thing i can eat everyday is a salad. It gets so boring and gross that most of the time I don't even eat lunch. I really hope that this goes ito effect at my school. They call themselves a "green school", yet all the food they serve is really unhealthy. Hopefully this is an upcoming dicussion in many schools.

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I like meat and im 62 years old and not sick.Ask the famous jim kick O hes dead at 42 i guess the veggie thing works.?????

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offering only vegetarian foods can disrupt a child's body system. Its been proven that if you change a person's nature abruptly it will have consequences on that patient.

I'm fed up with all these slogans saying vegetarianism is the healthiest choice you can make. Its absolutely wrong, a balance diet of meat and vegetables is the healthiest choice you can make.

The problem isn't the food, the problem is the schools cutting down on physical activities.

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Great idea. I'm a vegetarian and at my school they have very few veggie options, so I have to pack every day.

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How can someone say that vegetarian meals are for liberals??? Aren't there any healthy Republicans out there, or did they all suffer brain damage from the kool-aid they drank during George Dumbass Bush's reign?

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Offering veg meals gives kids a choice. A choice to be healthier and more compassionate. Kids are smarter than this generation and don't want to end up fat and sick at the hands of the big agribusinesses!

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It is a good thing. It is a solution to global warming. Also we will all go to heaven following the commendment, " Thou shall not kill."

Nirm

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Veggie choices is a good thing, however if your kid doesn't eat everyone says pack a lunch, you do realize that you have to pack what the school allows, you can't pack a little snack cake for dessert, no soda(even diet) no chips nothing snack wise, the stuff that is allowed is expensive. So if a parent cannot get the stuff that is on the allowed lunch list(which I agree kids need to eat healthier) then they are forced to either eat school lunches or not eat at all.

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What bothers me most about the issue is the fact that it is more expensive to feed our children whole foods and vegetables for their meals than it is to feed them processed food. When the government stops subsidizing the factory farm industry, and instead pours money into local and organic farming, our children will be much better served, and far healthier than they are now.

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Kill P.E.T.A.,EAT A WHOPPER

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As a nutrition major, I agree that the foods in the schools need to be adjusted, but pure vegetarian meals aren't the entire answer. Coming from a very depressed area I know that many kids in the public school system get their biggest meal while in school, so they needed a better ROUNDED meal, not just veggies. There are proteins and vitamins that come from properly prepared meats that are essential in all diets. Simple things like cutting the sweets for sides to a minimum would serve better, than cutting meat all together. Obesity in this country isn't just from the diets adopted; it's also do to the dramatic change to the "modern technological" society. Children are spending more time in the house than outside burning off the proteins and access energy that comes from the foods. We eat food as fuel for work and play, not to sit in front of technology like a veggie without working. A child could eat completely healthy and still be over weight without the proper physical stimulation to burn off what was consumed. Please, don't lean toward anything until you look into the matter fully.

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Look close at that "food" thats looks like tasteless slop!

Truth; Vegetables will cost too much (just look in your grocery store),so it is financially unsustainable

2. Dont you dare braiwash our kids!

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This is great! But I have to wonder if they're serving GOOD vegetarian meals or just half-a$$ing it? When I was in high school, the students begged the school to stop giving us crappy junk food, so they started offering "salads" and fruit but the salads weren't fresh or tasty, they were just as suspicious-looking as the mystery meat.

Plus, the only alternative to the junk food they served was salad, like the students really wanted to eat the same crappy iceberg lettuce salad everyday. There are other vegetarian meals besides SALAD! Real vegetarians have a variety of delicious dishes they can prepare besides salad - hot meals, too.

Knowing my old elementary school, they would probably start to serve "vegetarian meals" (right now, they don't) just to catch up to the other schools just so they can brag about serving healthier meals. But they would feed the students cheap, non-appetizing, unimaginative soggy stuff from cans that they wouldn't even have to heat up and would only serve good food when the parents come in for Open House.

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That is disgusting looking, boy I am glad to have graduated school. I know I would not buy anything that nasty, and no I am not obese or fat, in fact I am a little underweight. I feel bad for the kids, I hope they keep the meat for those that choose to eat meat with their diet.

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I find it to be pathetic that most of you are attacking vegetarianism, without legitimate reasoning. For those who are aware what entails fully with vegetarianism, and initially know what their talking about I applaud you. I'm a vegetarian, and I have been for several years, although it may be a significant change to the body when not eating meat, there are various options to fulfilling those gaps with the lack of protein, and other essential vitamins. It is not hard to live healthily, meat may provide what humans need, but are you aware of what is in your meat? How many hormones that are damaging to the body and chemicals filled in the meat, and by eating meat your chances of heart disease and other diseases raise to at some points 50% higher then those who don't eat meat? I find it difficult to even select one particular item in the cafeteria, finding that the lunch schedule does not change one bit throughout the year, and that there is only one day that calls for no meat in the course. Vegetarian option are indeed healthier, and easy to prepare, IF THE TIME IS TAKEN. What I'm seeing here is that some of you aren't willing to be open-minded about the subject. Wouldn't you want your children to eat more vegetables, then most already detest in taste, the taste is manipulated with seasoning which is natural and far more healthier. I'm not attacking anyone, but merely providing a different side to this subject. I personally, am sufficiently healthy, I have high-protein, and my levels of vitamins are higher then most, and it doesn't take me much time to eat healthier. I say, finally, cafeterias are considering all types of eaters.

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