New York City Mayor Announces Meatless Monday School Program

15 public schools will offer Meatless Monday as part of a pilot program

Students in the pilot will be served breakfast and lunch menus featuring meatless meals. (Images courtesy of Veggiecation).

NEW YORK—This week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that 15 public schools will offer Meatless Monday as part of a pilot program, with the potential to expand throughout the city school system. Every Monday, students in the pilot will enjoy breakfast and lunch menus featuring meatless meals. De Blasio also added a personal commitment to start the practice at Gracie Mansion, his official residence “…we are now going to be instituting Meatless Mondays as well… We’re starting a new habit and I’m looking forward to it.”

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New York joins a growing group of cities that are reducing meat consumption, with recent Meatless Monday proclamations issued in Pittsburgh, Sacramento, and Vancouver, B.C. Global leaders, including Argentinian President Mauricio Macri and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have also committed to practicing Meatless Monday.