Los Angeles City Council declares all future Mondays to be 'meatless'

[TexasGranny]

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Thought everyone else would enjoy this too!

Los Angeles City Council declares all future Mondays to be 'meatless'

The Los Angeles City Council has declared every Monday to be a so-called 'meatless Monday,' and is urging all

residents to participate in the weekly day of vegetarianism.

NBC Los Angeles reports that with the vote Los Angeles has become the largest city to embrace the Meatless

Monday campaign, a nonprofit with the goal of cutting down on meat consumption for health and environmental reasons.

Neither city officials nor law enforcement will be allowed to force residents to not eat meat, The Los Angeles Daily

News reports. Rather, the resolution is meant to encourage residents to not eat meat once a week in the hopes of starting a city-wide trend.

Councilwoman Jan Perry, who has pushed for a ban on new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles, said the

resolution is part of an overall "good food" agenda for the city.

"We can reduce saturated fats and reduce the risk of heart disease by 19 percent," Perry said according to the Los Angeles

Daily News. "While this is a symbolic gesture, it is asking people to think about the food choices they make. Eating less meat

can reverse some of our nation's most common illnesses."

[rope]

OMG.........well so much for their theory...now all I want to do is go get a Big Mac AND it's Monday They just better leave chocolate alone.......now that will be a cold day in hell for sure All for OUR health of course...yeah right!!!

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Yet God forbid someone suggest Fridays mean fish for everybody!

Oy vay!

Fruits n' nuts... fruits n' nuts... fruits n' nuts....Cally.

We all know what happened to Oprah when she put that out there!

Oh, well....

Means more meat for us!

Thank you for all the hard work you do, America's Chicken Farmers, Cattlemen,

Shepherds, Goat Herders & Pork Producers...

We salute you and think you're delicious!

[dontlop]

i like it .. the big citys get their dictators like they want ,, and this creates a surplus on beef ... that should drive prices down .. maybe all big citys should do this ..so the rest of us can enjoy ourselves,, can you imagine how many cows are rounded up to feed those citys every day .. man i could go for a 50 cent steak dinner

[S.FITZ]

Perhaps the more pertinent issues such as : deficit, defense,political mis-direction of info & funds should be addressed before imposing "dietary restrictions" on ALL our U.S. citizens. WHERE are our true protectors of freedom & U.S. principles/ constitutional rights? Need we become bogged down with such things as "big gulps", etc.....?

[smee2]

This sort of falls in line with the mayor of New York City who has made it illegal to feed the homeless. Reason? ... No control over how much salt and how many calories are in the food. Scratching my head on that one. Are there so many homeless people in New York City ending up in hospital needing bypass surgery for clogged arteries? Or so many of them becoming morbidly obese?

I have an idea ... lets get the city of Los Angeles to donate the meat they would have eaten on Mondays to the homeless in New York City. Then the homeless would be assured of at least one meal a week?

Silly notions competing with stupid viewpoints. If both cities have their way it could end up with meat producers basically giving meat away, any day but Monday of course, and then when they are homeless themselves they will have to find a city in which the homeless are allowed to accept donated food from restaurants, agencies and individuals who want to help. Rather than worry about meat or no meat, and donated food being too salty or heavy on the calories, they should be focussing on keeping the meet producers in business and the homeless fed ... the homeless can make their own minds up about whether or not they wish to eat food that is considered too salty by the food police. Just stupid ... the entire subject.

smee2