Meatless Monday at Kent

What a day did Monday 24th of January turn out to be for Kent School. We had our first meatless Monday. The event caused chaos amongst the Kent society. Most people were outraged at the fact that we would not have a meatless Monday. (by the way the Notion is not true because we had meat on Monday, it was only lunch that there was no meat). “You are taking away our choices” or “I need my meat” were some of the comments that the kids had to say about the health drive. I myself was against the notion of having a meatless Monday simply because I feel like we should have the option of what we eat. I respect the choices people make to take a standpoint on a particular view and that stands but not everyone is the same. If you don’t want to eat meat don’t eat it but let other people make the choice. Being a heavy meat consumer I didn’t know what to expect, I was frightened I was going to go back to my room hungry. What I found out was that in the end it didn’t turn out to be that bad, there was a sushi stand, some nice mushrooms, steam / fried veggies and some other nice things. It was not the end of the world. None of us starved or went back hungry or anything else like that. The thing was, the culture of Kent school, and the notion that so little goes on around here, made people collectively take a stand on this issue of food and simply blew it out of proportion simply for entertainment. We were sort of exercising our freedom of speech a little bit. It doesn’t take much to spark Kent students. Some people took it to the extremes bringing in McDonalds and chicken fingers to lunch in protest of the food drive. When I look back at today I think that my views have changed a little, if we are doing as much as they say in order to help preserve the environment and save Mother Nature, I guess one meal a week or even one day a week won’t be the end of the world. What I think could have been done differently was the way the people who organized meatless Monday in Kent could have taken a more suttle approach. They should have just made the menu with no meat and none of us would have realized it. Sure some kids might have complained that lunch was pretty average but it wouldn’t have been a big issue as it turned out to be. They should have just slipped it in there.