"Meatless" Mondays?

Kent School has adapted to this new thing called Meatless Mondays which is spreading throughout colleges and high schools. A few of the points of Meatless Mondays are to preserve our resources like water, advocate healthier eating habits, and sustain a healthier environment. By not eating meat for one meal, Kent School alone saves 260,000 gallons of water. We also save the rainforest by eating less meat because around a million hectares of rain-forest is cut down to grow animal feed each year. Meatless Mondays has absolutely no negative effect on your health. There are many other supplements for meat that can support your body as well as meat can. I don’t believe that it is a good idea to go fully vegetarian but one meal without meat really isn’t that bad. In fact I think we had a really great lunch on Monday. The sushi bar was heavenly with the fried onions and the avocados that were provided. In all honesty, I didn’t even step inside the food area because I took full advantage of that sushi bar making myself two very creative rolls. I was kind of hesitant about this Meatless Mondays thing at first like everyone because my least favorite meal at Kent is make your own salad day. I don’t like having to be forced to eat salad. I enjoy eating salad with my meal, not as my meal. Though I was not thrilled about this Meatless Mondays idea, I surely did not make an ordeal out of it because I know how fortunate we are to receive the quality and variety of food that we receive daily. Plus, dinner is only five hours after lunch. I found it ridiculous and just unnecessary that kids sat in the dining hall with containers of chicken strips like having meat in their diet was a life or death situation. The funniest part is that the student center is open all day selling…. None other than, MEAT!