Los Angeles, Calif. – City council has voted unamimously to
declare Mondays meatless in the city.
The declaration carries no force of law, but signals where
politicians stand.
They did it to “encourage residents to eat a more varied
plant-based diet to protect their health, protect animals and protect the
environment in the City of Los Angeles,” says the motion they passed.
Meatless Monday is an initiative that is associated with the
Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Jan Perry, one of two council members who proposed the
motion, is also calling for a ban on new fast-food restaurants in South Los
Angeles. That, she says, is to fight obesity.
