NYC Mayor Declares ‘MeatOut Day’ For The City on March 20th
Mayor Eric Adams has signed New York up for the meat-free pledge this March, as the city continues to push forward on initiatives to help encourage the uptake of healthy, plant-based food.
New York is declaring March 20th as “MeatOut Day”, as the city continues to promote initiatives that help educate consumers on the benefits of a healthy, plant-based diet.
The recently-elected Mayor Eric Adams accepted the MeatOut challenge for New York, which will see events take place across the city including a special launch event at P.S. Kitchen.
The annual MeatOut initiative launched back in 1985 as part of Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), and has worked to inspire plant-based choices ever since, through educational events and food samplings. Now, the Big Apple is taking the challenge.
“As a New Yorker myself, I am particularly proud of this proclamation,” said Eric C Lindstrom, Executive Director of FARM. “The advances Mayor Adams has made toward a plant-based future, and Vegan Fridays in New York City schools align perfectly with our mission and the mission of MeatOut.”
Adams himself has long advocated the benefits of ditching meat and dairy, after he reversed his own type-2 diabetes and partial blindness by adopting a plant-based diet back in 2016.
Since then he has become a national leader on public health policy, and is now using his platform to help others make the connection between their diets and preventable chronic illnesses.
Just last month, he launched the “Vegan Fridays” campaign in New York public schools, which will see over 1 million school children eating plant-based food at school once a week.
Speaking on Fox 5’s Good Day New York about Vegan Fridays, Adams said “I love healthy food, and I love life, and our children should not continually be fed food that’s causing their healthcare crises: childhood obesity, childhood diabetes, asthma”.
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