ETHS Ditches Hamburgers for Veggie Burgers On ‘Meatless Mondays’
Along with a handful of other high schools and colleges in Illinois, Evanston Township High School will participate in the Humane Society’s “Meatless Monday” campaign.
Beginning this January, Evanston Township High School students will see more black bean burgers and tofu stir-fries in the lunch line, when their cafeteria joins the Humane Society’s “Meatless Monday” campaign. Roughly 2,000 institutions including hospitals, schools and colleges have implemented some kind of Meatless Monday policy in their cafeterias since the initiative began in 2003, according to Kenny Torrella, an outreach coordinator for the Humane Society. Locally, those institutions include Northwestern University, Loyola University, DePaul University and the Rockford Public Schools. “Meatless Monday is really an international movement,” Torrella says. “It encourages kids to avoid eating animals in order to help the planet, …
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Jim
10:39 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
Dan, Point well taken. Can we also teach about rules for successful living like TheTen Commandments? I wonder if The Humane Society would support that concept. I am a libertarian and really do not need coercion to think and do the right thing both regarding my fellow humans or animals. Eating less meat is a no brainier from a health point of view but I suspect that The Humane Society has other … more ›