meat free mondays..

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Resolution

would deem Mondays ‘meat-free’

By: Joshua Sabatini

Examiner Staff Writer

April 6, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sophie Maxwell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Better

think twice about eating meat on Monday. That’s about to become San Francisco’s

official “meat-free” day.

Supervisor

Sophie Maxwell, who says she has been a vegetarian for 40 years, introduced a

resolution, titled Meat-Free Mondays, declaring every Monday to be Vegetarian

Day or Veg Day.

The Board

of Supervisors votes today on the legislation, which would “urge all

restaurants, grocery stores and schools to offer a greater variety of

plant-based options to improve the health of San Francisco residents and

visitors and to increase the awareness of the impact a green diet would be on

our planet.”

Board

members have drawn criticism in the past for perhaps not making the best use of

their time voting on resolutions, which carry no legal weight.

The City

is in the throes of having to close a $483 million deficit and is looking at

even larger deficits in subsequent years.

Maxwell,

however, sees nothing wrong with taking the time to talk about vegetables.

“I

think it’s important that the board do things to bring attention to

things,” Maxwell said. “That’s part of what we do as

leaders.”

An

official vegetarian day is not without precedent. Last year, Ghent, Belgium,

established a weekly “Veg Day.”

“I

am a vegetarian. I think it’s important that people feel the alternative

and that we talk about it,” she said. Maxwell suggested businesses could

use it as a marketing tool. “They can put up a sign: ‘Vegetarian

Day, local produce,’” Maxwell said. “And it’s

fun.”

Going on

a vegetarian diet is both good for one’s health and also the environment,

the legislation says. Cutting back on eating meats “reduces serious

ecological problems involved in livestock production” and

“plant-based diets are good preventative medicine and could help reduce

medical costs.”

This is

not the first time the board has weighed in on food issues. In 2009, the board

unanimously approved legislation commending restaurants that have removed foie

gras — the fattened liver of a force-fed duck or goose — from their

menus.

The board

will also vote today on another resolution introduced by Maxwell that will

commend those San Francisco

businesses that use only cage-free eggs, while encouraging others to follow

suit.

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http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Resolution-would-deem-Mondays-meat-free-89971427.html

 

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Comments below are from 2 people who are involved with the

community.

 

Sophie Maxwell is not the most popular Supervisor.

Community leaders think she can do a better job.

 

(sorry the information is vague, just want to say, some

people are not happy with her work, details available)

 

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winnie

 

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April 11, 18

May 23, June 20, July 11, Aug 22, Sept 19, Oct 24

 

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