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L.A. Endorses ‘Meatless Mondays’ Citing Health and Environmental Benefits

Nov. 12, 2012 9:34am Liz Klimas

City Council of Los Angeles Approves Meatless Mondays Resolution Making It the Largest City to Do So

This is a campaign poster from the Meatless Mondays initiative. (Image: MeatlessMonday.com)

The City of Los Angeles has become the largest in the country to formally endorse the campaign “Meatless Mondays,” which encourages people to go without meat one day each week.

The motion was introduced by councilwoman Jan Perry with councilman Ed Reyes, according to the Meatless Monday campaign website, and was unanimously approved by the city council to in order to “support of comprehensive sustainability efforts as well as to further encourage residents to eat a more varied plant-based diet to protect their health and protect animals.”

The resolution passed Friday, like others, have not only drawn a link to improved health from reduced meat intake, but also have cited environmental benefits. The resolution connects livestock with global warming, stating that “we can lower our carbon footprint simply by reducing the amount of animal-based foods we eat.” Choosing vegetarian options from an animal rights perspective was also cited.

“The issue is, how does a local municipality engage in this and how do we create change?” Reyes said, according to the Meatless Monday website. “If we do it one plate at time, one meal, one day, we are ratcheting down the impact on our environment. We start with one day a week and then, who knows, maybe we can change our habits for a lifetime.”

Still, formally declaring Meatless Mondays might be considered controversial. In July of this year, the USDA was forced by industry backlash to reverse a stance it made to endorse Meatless Mondays. TheBlaze reported at the time:

“This move by USDA should be condemned by anyone who believes agriculture is fundamental to sustaining life on this planet,” said J.D. Alexander, president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

The agency proposed the meatless initiative in an online newsletter to employees about “greening” efforts.

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USDA spokeswoman Cortney Rowe says the department does not endorse the initiative, which is part of a “global public health campaign.” The agency removed the posting hours after the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association denounced it in a news release.

The resolution by the City of Los Angeles also included examples of other cities and entities, like universities, that have endorsed vegetarian days to encourage meatless menus. According to Meatless Monday’s website, other cities that have endorsed the campaign include Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Calif., and Durham-Raleigh, North Carolina. The resolution does not carry any legal weight, meaning penalties are not involved for those who refuse the suggestion.

Meatless Mondays was started by the University of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2003.

(H/T: NBC Los Angeles)

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ares338
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:23am
If….and only if a person wishes to not eat meat on any day of the week then that is his or her right. Otherwise keep your damn nose out of our business!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:33am
  Is there any way to speed up that Pacific Plate?
  
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- truth or consequences
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:10am
  nudge nudge
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:11am
  L.A. Endorses ‘Meatless Mondays’ Hiding Government Control Benefits
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:17am
  Why not? California has already accepted Reasonless Voting Tuesday. They also have spineless Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This seems to make sense.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:25am
  Wow – these are the same folks that promote you paying extra for grass fed beef and free range fed chickens and the more healthy eggs they produce. For you folks that have never been on a farm let me enlighten you. If you don’t have grass you have to buy expensive hay and grains to feed the cows. If chickens are really range birds you won’t like what they eat. They follow the cows around and when the cow poops the chickens run over and scratch through it and eat the undigested grains and they like the poop also. And you pay almost double for meat and eggs with this cavet. Wow!
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:51pm
  THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF TYRANNY
  
  The 2 percenters will dictate to the other 98 percent.
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:34pm
  I am going to make sure I eat double the meat on Mondays from now on.
  
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- starman70
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:40pm
  Personally, if I lived in the Los Angeles city area, Iwould make it my prime objective to have meat EVERY Monday. I would go to a steakhouse and order beef steak, lamb, pork chops, baby back ribs and any other kind of meat the menu offered that suited my taste that day.
  
  Los Angeles is a city teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and has far more problems than to worry about what people eat.
  
  OH WELL, after all it is Calisissyfornia. Maybe Mayor Bloomberg should move out of New York and find a new home in Los Angeles. He would fit right in!!
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:25pm
  Sad Thing is,STARMAN, restaurants will be pressured,if not forced,to stop serving meat on Mondays.
  That is usually what things like this lead to.
  
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- emh1701
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:15pm
  Completely agree. Govt. needs to stay out of it.
  
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- ICRedifURBlue
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:35pm
  I’ll give ‘em Meatless Monday if we get Taxless Tuesday………………….
  
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- KIWL-DA-WABBIT
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:36pm
  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny ( a day’s wage); three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
  
  It’s starting!
  
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- no1jyd
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 8:40pm
  Just think this means the animals live a day longer farting and depleting the ozone. And now for your next trick.
  
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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:11pm
  I HATE the people in my state. Unanimous approval? Like one person here already said, “NUDGE” prior to banning.
  
  There is no global warming (other than normal trends) and this retards are still using it to promote Agenda 21.
  
  Never fear, there’s not one brain here in CA that thins Agenda 21 exists, or if they do, that it’s a bad thing.
  
  I keep praying Jesus will come back or for the whole planet to be nuked silly. Doesn’t matter which. Humans are the stupides f***s alive.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 11:16am
  “Eating meat” also means: HAVING SEX!! You can’t have sex either, on mondays!!! :-)
  
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COFemale
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:23am
We should start referring to California as Communist California in our writings, maybe they will get the hint they are going overboard. I mean we call China, Communist China.

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:17am
  That would be Commyfornia…
  
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- dogdr
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:08pm
  As usual, people here confuse a suggestion with an order. Nobody has to do or eat anything they don’t want to. Eat meat all day Fine. The point is that NOT eating meat is better for the environment and your own health. There really isn’t a lot of argument about that. The city is SUGGESTING eating less meat since we all live together and what we do individually effects others. They believe they are suggesting something good for the general population. You have a problem with that? Forcing it is a different issue and I would oppose that, but nobody EVER said this was a law or rule, just a suggestion and suddenly California is communist because a city made a suggestion to its residents. You all need to calm down a bit. The world is not ending because somebody suggests you not eat meat one day week. The Republic will live on.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:53pm
  HOW DO WE STOP THIS
  
  Marxist California must be stopped at the expense of forcing it back into Mexico. Some states have no right being part of the USA.
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:28pm
  Good Ol’ Commiefornia. They pass a $9 billion tax “For The Children” while San Fransisco passes a bill to give away free Vaginas for perverts. They sure have their priorities straight.
  You can Get Female Genitalia installed,but you can’t get a cheese burger.
  
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- emh1701
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:14pm
  To the people who think we are confusing suggestions with orders: Please go and look up what “nudging” means, and go read the Overton Window.
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:01pm
  @ DOGDR……You really don’t pay much attention to the way things work,do you??? Or are you one of the Commies we are referring to???
  
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emh1701
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:22am
So what are the people who have severe food allergies to things like soy, beans, and nuts supposed to do? There are people with chlorophyll allergies who cannot eat plants. They do exist, and the govt. needs to quit thinking that everything is a one-size-fits-all solution.

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- TAC616
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:45pm
  So eat meat. If you read it, you’ll see it has no legal force, it’s a suggestion, and for most people, eating vegetables is good for you.
  
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- emh1701
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:06pm
  What I’m saying is the government doesn’t have a place to make suggestions like this. One-size-fits-all approaches do not work for everybody. The govt. needs to quit recommending them.
  
  Did you know that Michelle Obama’s school food mandate does not work for athletes? They actually need more calories than they’re getting. The athletic kids should not be punished because some kids are fat. This is like punishing an entire class for something that only a few kids did. I thought that Marxists were all about fairness? This doesn’t seem very fair to me.
  
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- KIWL-DA-WABBIT
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:43pm
  Ron Paul would let you eat what ever the hell you wanted to!
  
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Mandors
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:19am
The city is going bankrupt and the council has time for crap like this?

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- Walkabout
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:43pm
  They can’t let the loser Nanny Bloomberg have all the fun.
  
  And we thought city government was about police, fire, schools, parks & roads. Silly voters those are so passe & of secondary concern. that is if they are meaningfully tacked by elected officials at all.
  
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justangry
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:15am
Oh screw that. I’m eating a cow or pig every Monday for the rest of my life. Steak, bacon and eggs in the morning. Cheeseburger for lunch and a porterhouse for super. Just saw it’s horns off, wipe it’s ass and throw it on my plate.

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- Stelex
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:20am
  Now thats funny
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:30am
  And tasty, too!
  
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- tj1961
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:35am
  Yum Yum! Eat em up!!
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:47am
  I think that’s beautiful. What’s next? Biochips? No TP for my bunghole? Go brown 4 green???
  
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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:57am
  AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:47am
  
  I think that’s beautiful. What’s next? Biochips? No TP for my bunghole? Go brown 4 green???
  
  Now that was HILARIOUS!!
  
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- kramh
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:04pm
  You need to kill the beef a few weeks in advance to hang it so the beef will age. So plan your Monday dinner well. Make sure you invite the whole neighborhood over to eat that cow..
  
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Metallicat
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:11am
Unless the population starts practicing cannibalism,the government has no right to tell us what to eat,after they wreck the economy and force many of us to eat poorly or go hungry. I think in times like these,hunting regulations should be pulled back,and hunting seasons extended. still see so many dead deer along roadways that go to waste,while food prices climb.

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Uechi
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:08am
Meatless Monday brought to you by a Marxist affiliate state for Obama. California tax dollars in action, disgusting.

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- hypnos
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:14am
  Agreed, please eat meat at every meal on Mondays
  
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ginger100
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:08am
Hang yourself Tuesday, Abort a baby Wednesday. Same sex Thursday. Spit on the flag Friday. Sharia law Saturday. Worship the preezy Sunday. And do it again Meatless Monday + electric car. Way to coral the sheep into separate boxcars to slaughter.

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Cavallo
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:08am
The next step is forcing businesses to go meatless.. at first likely on Mondays, then maybe more days later after they let people get used to the fascism that they voted for.

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ktmrider1
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:06am
I am going to have a nice big fat delicious steak every monday now

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freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:03am
Guess tacking on “it’s good for the environment,” to anything anyone’s or group desires makes it true. It no longer requires “proof.”

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- BernieKittyCat
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:45am
  Maybe the right should try it:
  Go buy a gun. It’s good for the environment.
  Protect the border. It’s good for the environment.
  Stop Iranian nuclear proliferation. It’s good for the environment.
  All of those statement are true. The left might not like them but who gives a cr@p what they think?
  
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- KIWL-DA-WABBIT
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:51pm
  1) cows produce CO2, Eating cows reduces CO2, So it’s green to eat steak! YEEHAAW
  
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GlennaBeckski
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:52am
That chic looks an awful lot like Chick Fil A ~~ I’d sue

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DarkestbeforeDawn
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:52am
Still waiting for that West Coast earthquake that will break California off from the rest of the country.

Tick Tick Tick – Come on, anytime now.

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- EqualJustice
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:01am
  Oh, if only.. without any deaths, of course. I say give them enough warning to evacuate into Mexico!
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:15am
  Or Canada. Of course, Canada would probably close their borders to the idiots. I have one friend who needs to stay in the U.S. He is a Republican living just outside LA.
  
  The government should not be dictating nor establishing any campaigns like this. This should be private organizations driving these. Next they will tell establishments they can’t serve meat on Monday’s. We are slowly becoming a dictatorship at the hands of Democrats. Remember the highest concentration of Communist came out of LA. The children have grown up. Time to nip this in the bud now CA or pay the consequences.
  
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- Micmac
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 2:32pm
  @ COFEMALE
  
  Not LA, Berkeley and Frisco.
  
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RIGS
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:52am
All the gays will have do w/o TUBE STEAK on mondays……………………

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- ghostlyspirit
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 12:01pm
  hahahahahahah
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:52pm
  I doubt “Meatless Mondays” will catch on in San Fransisco.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:52am
Individuals and private groups can practice or recomend or endorse such.
Ther ‘science’ behind it is more fragile than for global warming.
It will hurt the ark et for America’s farmers (don’t believe me? Why does boycotting gas on a single day drive prices down– same economic lever)

In short, our politicians have PLENTY of real problems to deal with, and California more than most.
Time wasted on these useless directives should infuriate every voter.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:50am
Here comes the regulation and banning of meat ‘for the good of the people’ by the states and then by the Federal government. Watch for New York to follow.

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- Ducky 1
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:22am
  How true Snow. They start with a “suggestion” and before we know it ………it becomes law!!
  
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barber2
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:49am
With California’s profligate spending and taxing plans , they will soon be announcing FOODLESS MONDAYS !

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BlackCrow
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:46am
How many ways can I express my contempt for this? Yet liberals insist they only want what is best for us, they don’t want to infringe on our freedom to commit buggery (Look it up).

Red States SECEDE!

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Shasta
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:46am
Where there is a suggestion from the government, a law is bound to follow.

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- Stelex
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:57am
  Bingo…….social engineering is just a series of “nudges”, suggest it, promote it, pass it into law. When will the American sheeple wake up to the fact that they are being manipulated in every way shape and form. I already double bag all my groceries to make up for the morons using the cloth bags. Now I have to double my meat intake for my country. Two T-Bones for me tonight. F the Gov and F the UN
  
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biohazard23
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:45am
Think I’ll get a bacon double cheeseburger to celebrate.

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- Disgusted_in_CT
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:23am
  I second that notion.
  
  All in favor say Aye.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:31am
  Aye!
  
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Mike Benton
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:43am
For generations Friday was meatless…you know they could not pick Friday for this program because some fool would yell : “separation o f Church and State!!!”

The Catholic church did it to promote personal self control and self discipline; these self proclaimed benefactors want to impose their will.

I’m going to double up on burgers from now on……

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- Polarized America
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:51am
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  Yeah i remember that..my mother would always cook fish on friday
  
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- GlennaBeckski
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:51am
  I’m old enough to remember those days as well.
  
  Good excuse to go to Culver’s .. : )
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:00am
  We always had fish on fridays for religios reasons, and it wasnt because it wasnt “meat”, fish is also a meat.
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 10:09am
  Gimm…my family was interfaith ..†
  
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- classic.american.therapist
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 1:56am
  More than self-discipline, the meatless Fridays were meant to facilitate prayerful self-sacrifice to draw us closer to Christ. The secular “Meatless Monday” initiative seems to have the exact opposite connotations, to involve participants in the short-sighted concerns of earth instead of the eternal things of Heaven.
  
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lookes2003
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:38am
I got your meat right here! lol…

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capitalismrocks
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:37am
Catholic’s already observe no meat on Friday’s… maybe LA should just piggyback onto that…

but no, its not gov’t place to tell people what to eat, what to eat… these are early stages of propaganda/mind control posters, as time goes by the posters change from a suggestion to a mandate to a warning/penalty notice.

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- Rockapine
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:59am
  No, can’t be Friday.that would smack of the r word…you know…the detestable indoctrination of children ANGRY OLD WHITE GUYS? /sarc
  
  They’re just getting us accustomed to idea of give dictating our every move…once the waters boiling, the frog doesn’t care if you sub liberal think for Sharia.
  
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Exidor
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:36am
I think I’ll have a Center Cut Ribeye to commerate this historic event.

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kickagrandma
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:36am
On my way to the grocery store to buy and then eat all the meat we can afford ON MONDAYS!!!

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