Biased against burgers
Schools around the nation have been striving to make their lunch menus more healthful, but they aren’t going far enough for middle school teacher Dave Warwak. The art teacher in Fox River Grove, Ill., who has been removed from classes for encouraging students not to eat meat, says he’s not returning to classes until the school stops serving milk and all other animal products on its lunch menu, according to The Chicago Tribune.
Unless there is sudden groundswell of veganism in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, my guess is that chicken nuggets and cartons of milk will continue to be a key element of school lunches in Fox River Grove.
Warwak, 44, says he’s going to ask the McHenry County state’s attorney to file child-endangerment charges against the school district because Fox River Grove (Ill.) Middle School continues to promote milk and other animal products as part of a healthful diet. Earlier this year, the newspaper reported, Warwak became a vegan and does not consume meat, milk or other animal products.
Warwak met with school officials and representatives of Fox River Grove District 3, but says he has not been suspended or fired.
December 2nd, 2008 @ 6:07 pm
“Not only at Fox River Grove Middle School but also in thousands of schools across the country, corporate agribusiness has run amok in the attempt to utilize public education as a place to establish the naturalization of commercial meat and dairy as lifelong eating habits, to generate increased sales, to subsidize the food industry against decreased producer prices, as well as to funnel below-health-standards food not fit for public sale. Warwak was correct to demand the riddance of the Dairy Council’s posters as they had in fact already been targeted for removal from approximately 105,000 public schools by the Federal Trade Commission.”
Richard Kahn PhD, University of North Dakota
http://freire.mcgill.ca/files/kahn-epistemologiesofignorance.pdf
http://peepshowforchildrenonly.com
http://veganschool101.com