Dispelling myths about meatless meals


	Dispelling myths about meatless meals

Spiritualmonkey

10-30-2009 11:20 AM

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baltimore, nutrition, vegetables, meat

Spiritualmonkey says:

The right-wing blowhards getting their knickers in a twist over this is so amusing.

Because it's indoctrination to teach kids that anything but meat for lunch is a good thing. How dare they!

Like kids experiencing foregoing meat one meal a week is some sort of communist plot to weaken our children and make them susceptible to socialized medicine and nuclear disarmament or something.

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