Following last week’s announcement by the Baltimore school district that it will institute “Meatless Mondays,” American Meat Institute President and CEO J. Patrick Boyle sent a letter this week that “schooled” the district’s superintendent on the role of meat in the diet.
In the letter to Andres A. Alonso, Boyle pointed out that the district’s web site says three of four students in the Baltimore school district are eligible for free and reduced meals. “Did you also know that according to food banks nationwide, meat is the most requested and least available food?” Boyle asked. “The population of children you serve in particular needs the protein and essential vitamins that meat and poultry products offer and school meals may be the only significant source of meat and poultry in their diets.”
