Society New York’s PS 244 Introduces Nation’s First All-Vegetarian School Cafeteria Menu May 1, 2013 by Brett Wilkins in Education , Featured , Food Agriculture , The Moral High Ground with 0 Comments Tweet An elementary school in New York City has eliminated all meat from its cafeteria menu, becoming what may be the first public school in the nation to go completely vegetarian. PS 244 in Flushing, Queens, the Active Learning Elementary School, has been gradually transitioning to an all-vegetarian menu since opening in 2008. Partnering with the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food , PS 244 chefs replaced traditional cafeteria mainstays like burgers and chicken nuggets with innovative and healthy veggie dishes like black bean and cheese quesadillas, falafel, vegetarian chili with brown rice, and tofu in sesame sauce. Pizza Fridays survived the change– sans pepperoni. Apparently, the kids aren’t missing the ‘mystery meat’ at all. “This is so good!” 9-year-old Marian Satti told a reporter from the New York Daily News as she scarfed down her black bean quesadilla during a recent lunch period. “I’m enjoying that it didn’t have a lot of salt in it,” she added. “It’s been a really great response from the kids, but they also understand it’s about what is the healthiest option for them,” PS 244 Principal Bob Groff told ABC News. “Because we teach them throughout our curriculum to make healthy choices, they understand what is happening and believe in what we’re doing too.” “I don’t eat fried foods. I don’t drink soda. I try not to have sweets too often,” NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott told the Daily News . “And that’s what we want for our students… to make sure they eat healthy both at home and at school.” The transition to a vegetarian menu was made easier by the fact that around 70 percent of PS 244 students are Asian, including many traditionally vegetarian Indians. “Our head cook is also a vegetarian herself and a parent in the school,” Groff told NBC News. In addition to lunch, PS 244 also serves up vegetarian breakfasts each day, with menu items including bagels and cream cheese, whole-grain banana bread and egg and cheese roll-ups. It’s an important kick-start to students’ school days. “We know that when students eat a healthy diet, they’re able to focus better,” Amie Hamlin, executive director of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food, told NBC News. “Their immune systems are stronger, so they’re less sick, and then they’re in school more and they’re able… to learn better.” Students who don’t wish to eat vegetarian meals have the option of bringing their own lunches to school. The Daily News reports that PS 244′s move is part of a wider trend toward healthier school meals that has been a hallmark of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s tenure. Salad bars have now been installed in 1,000 city schools; they’ll be in every school by the end of the next academic year. “We’ve been watching how the mayor has been responding to something like sugary beverages or the smoking ban , and that was an opportunity for us, because we could see the direction the city is moving,” Goff told NBC News. “We could move along with it to create the healthiest options for our kids.” *** PS 244 SAMPLE MENUS: BREAKFAST MENU Whole-grain sunrise carrot bread with hot cereal choice Fluffy egg omelet with melted cheese in a New York-style bagel Waffles with warm syrup and mozzarella string cheese LUNCH MENU Black bean and cheddar quesadilla served with salsa, red roasted potatoes and broccoli Roasted organic tofu with cacciatore sauce, whole-grain pasta and roasted zucchini “Superhero” spinach wrap with cucumber salad Chickpea falafel in a soft wheat wrap with chopped romaine, fresh diced tomatoes and cucumber salad (Source: City Department of Education) —— 蔣科學按：擔心孩子素食不夠營養的同學現在可以放心。逼著孩子吃肉的父母可以罷手了。 http://morallowground.com/2013/05/01/new-yorks-ps-244-introduces-nations-first-all-vegetarian-cafeteria-menu/ 原链接有视频，可惜本博文中无法显现。
In the late 1960s and early 1970s many countercultural activists became vegetarians in the context of the Vietnam War protests, choosing a peaceful diet as a complement to their public stance of nonviolence. In response to posters that showed the devastation of people and property in Vietnam, one man asked himself, What am I doing eating meat? I'm just adding to the violence, and became a vegetarian. Another nonviolent Civil Rights activist described the connection to vegetarianism in these words: Under the leadership of Dr. King I became totally committed to nonviolence, and I was convinced that nonviolence meant opposition to killing in any form. I felt the commandment Thou shalt not kill applied to human beings not only in their dealings with each other—war, lynching, assassination, murder and the like—but in their practice of killing animals for food or sport. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and brutal taking of life. Vegetarian Ecofeminism A Review Essay Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 23.3 (2002) 117-146 Greta Gaard
宣傳素食主義最引起許多朋友反彈的地方就在於：貌似對於人們個人事務進行干涉，而現代社會中以開明進步自居的朋友，在嚴守個人與公共領域分界線的地方往往都是斬釘截鐵不留情面的。但是，女性主義的一個重大貢獻就是，發現個人與公共領域的分界線可能並非是不可跨越的鴻溝，在傳統認為專屬個人的領域中存在非常重大的政治問題，必須要接受理性的批判和審查。 Greta Gaard 在 Vegetarian Ecofeminism A Review Essay Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 23.3 (2002) 117-146 中寫道： As Lynda Birke explains, One of the strengths of feminist thought is that it is never 'just' about women: it is a critical discourse that tends to ask uncomfortable questions about everything. Vegetarian ecofeminism puts into action the feminist insight that the personal is political and examines the political contexts of dietary choices as well as strategic and operational choices in science and economics. 對素食主義干涉個人自由感到不爽的朋友，也許有必要讀一下這篇文章哦！ 23.3gaard.pdf
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