SF Supervisors Urging Meat Free Mondays

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday on a resolution urging

restaurants, grocery stores and schools to observe no meat on Mondays.

 

Supervisor Sophie Maxwell has been a vegetarian for 35 years and would like to

see more people move toward a vegetarian diet.

 

With that in mind, she introduced a resolution to declare Mondays in San

Francisco as " Vegetarian Day. "

 

" I think San Francisco is a food town. There are a lot of vegetarian restaurants

and a lot of things that people can think about, " said Maxwell. " Not only bring

attention to, but think about the alternatives to meat. "

 

Dixie Mahy, the president of the San Francisco Vegetarian Society said she

thinks it's a great idea.

 

" All the statistics are on our side. And we can show you that a lot of the

degenerative diseases are associated with a high fat, high meat, high dairy

diet, " said Mahy.

 

At Maxwell's urging, the supervisors also took up a resolution that commends

local businesses that use cage-free eggs.