When I went to school, there was always a vegetarian option, whether it was a salad or veggie burger. Not having meat on Mondays is forcing an agenda. I think there should be options, like providing vegetarian dishes that you are free to choose. I’m sure that people would have a problem with offering a Total Meat Tuesday, with NO vegetarian option to CHOOSE from. Choice is important and that’s why this country is great.

Unfortunately, choice for vegetarians is often a limp iceberg lettuce salad, which has no nutritional value or protein source. I think Glenn Beck is insane, and I won’t even dignify his existence by pointing to all the things wrong with his arguments. But I would agree that in many schools, there is no choice. To the poster who said they had veggie burgers, that’s great, but unfortunately not common. My vegetarian choice in high school was a bagel. Not very nutritionally balanced.

As a vegetarian, I love the idea of meatless Mondays. But we are in America and you should be able to choose. What they should focus on instead is responsible, sustainable farming that cares about the farmer, the environment and the animal. It’s called shopping local and getting your meat from an animal that wasn’t fed sick animals and was able to move around a farm, not caged in it’s own feces and so overfed they can’t walk. Have you watched Food Inc.? It’s something that sheds light on a subject that people are afraid to talk about and is kind of out of sight, out of mind. But if you talk to any small farmers that are forced to go industrial or go out of business, you realize there are people behind your food. It’s not just some marketing and a pretty package at the grocery store.

Choice is great, but we have limited all sorts of choices because they are are harmful or destructive. Being able to own slaves used to be a “choice” white males could make. But it is wrong, and brutally killing animals is cruel to the animals and is destroying the planet, making it wrong.

Boy I haven’t heard of this guy before (but maybe that’s because I’m from Canada, eh?) but what an arrogant jerk! He obviously is an extremely selfish individual who becomes indignant when someone dares to suggest that he (along with everyone else) occasionally make responsible food choices. Choices that could lessen the damage done to our planet in the form of global warming, pollution, and cruel treatment of food animals. But I guess people like him only care about themselves…after all he’s not the one who will be here in 100 years from now wondering why we created such a mess for that future generation. He’s not the one who’s family just got killed in a hurricane brought about by global warming. He’s not the polar bear who dies prematurely from drowning because too much polar ice has melted away. He’s not the poor, helpless pig suffering his entire life in a feces-infested, cold, metal cage so tiny he can’t turn around. So God forbid he should be in favour of something that would require him to deny himself something (the specific taste of meat) that he wants, when he wants it, and how he wants it. Just like a child who wants immediate gratification and throws a temper tantrum when he can’t have it. You know, incredibly selfish people like this guy Glenn Beck are the reason we have these horrific global problems in the first place. And it’s people with attitudes like this that are thwarting the efforts the rest of us are making to try to save this precious, fragile planet.

This blog should not even listen to this reactionary. There are enough of them. They are the establishment. This kind of journalist should be totally ignored. Glenn Beck. Shooo!

He is the most ignorant and disgusting person I’ve ever seen. Who is this programed, mind-controlled reject.

The meat industry may want to silence this guy.
He’s the poster boy for what eating too much meat can do to you — it takes away your reasoning and makes you crazy.

Dude seriously my vegetarian cookies are seriously the sh*t. And they don’t have meat, beans, or Jesus in them. Crazy!

Also I agree with Gina as she argues that “Meatless Mondays” just change food choices for school students. I was a three sport Varsity athlete in high school and often times we would gather to have pasta dinners before large sporting events as a team. Rarely did the pasta provided contain meat sauce or meatballs. We were involuntarily having a “Meatless Monday” to improve performance. Anyone who vehemently argues that vegetarians only enjoy “bean stuff” will most likely pass on due to the direct cause of dietary choices, thus only having a life span short enough to stop polluting the earth for the rest of us.

Get healthy food to the masses- not just to people that can afford it!

Thanks for posting.

Anybody who eats meat and dairy prodcts is a violent masochist! How would you all like it if someone did to you or your child what is done to these animals? Eating meat and dairy products is totally unnecssary. People are so totally selfish,they do not care how much suffering they cause as long as their selfish desires are met! There are many different species on earth. Out of all the species, man is the most destructive, calculating, cruel and USELESS to the earth! The earth would be a better place without man.

Maybe as a Mormon Mr. Beck needs to spend less time talking a little more time reading his scriptures.

Doctrine and Covenants 89:12-13

12 Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly;
13 And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine.

They should *NOT* be used except under conditions of cold (this was written in 1833 when fresh produce would not be available to most during winter/cold) and famine. Mr. Beck - you don’t appear to be suffering famine.

With all due respect to Mr. Beck, who presents some thought provoking ideas on occasion, he should know what his faith teaches him to do - it’s not up for what’s convenient.

As a Mormon myself, I am APPALLED that certain aspects of the Word of Wisdom are treated as lightly as consumption of meat is, when those words a pretty clear to me. But since eating meat isn’t considered an addiction it’s taken as something open to personal interpretation. (and if it’s not like any other unhealthy addiction, then what’s the problem with not eating in day per week, or overeating it regularly?)