San Francisco Residents: Take Action for Farmed Animals and Kids!
San Francisco Residents: Take Action for Farmed Animals & Kids!
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) ‘Future Dining Experience’ initiative decides the daily school lunches for over 53,000 children.
Recently, the World Health Organization ranked processed meats alongside cigarettes with regard to their carcinogenic threat to human health.
Encourage SFUSD to ditch processed meats and add more plant-based (meat and dairy-free) meals to their school menus!
Serving more plant-based meals to children will help thousands of farmed animals who suffer every day in ammonia-filled factory farms and terrifying blood-filled abattoirs. Children are naturally empathetic to animals, and would be horrified to learn where their school meat – processed or otherwise – comes from.
According to data from the California Physical Fitness Test, 31.7% of San Francisco school kids are overweight or obese. However, children who eat regular plant-based meals benefit from a lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other maladies as adults. Likewise, they tend to report lower body mass indexes, so a switch to low fat and nutritious plant-based lunches would help counter America’s growing childhood-obesity epidemic.
If we don’t manage children’s health today, they’ll be left to manage their diseases tomorrow.
There are only positives to gain by adding cruelty-free and delicious school lunch meals!