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Miami-Dade Public Schools Expand Vegan Lunch Options for New School Year
Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth-largest school district in America, has revamped its menus to include more vegetarian and vegan school lunch options. The Floridian district, which includes more than 460 schools, aims to make healthy eating accessible to all students. To kick off the semester, the schools have reiterated their promise of free breakfasts for […]
New Zealand Preschool Wins UNESCO Award for Vegan Menu
The Rotorua’s Tiaki Early Learning Centre in New Zealand has been serving its students a vegetarian menu since 2015. But its recent shift to a fully vegan menu, and efforts to become a fully zero-waste facility, that have earned the school a New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO Award for Global Citizenship Education. The early learning facility sources […]
Schools in Four Brazilian Cities to Make History and Go Vegan in 2019
School cafeterias in Brazil are transitioning to vegan menus, the Humane Society International (HSI) has announced. The transition will be seen in four cities and will be completed by 2019. The schools are participating in a new project, “Escola Sustentável”, launched in partnership with HSI. “Escola Sustentável”, which translates to sustainable school, is taking place […]
35 L.A. Schools Commit to Vegan Lunch Menu Due to Student Demand
Following speculation, The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) have stated they are officially going to be rolling out vegan lunch menu options to 35 schools as of January 2018, according to VegNews. Vegan options for LA students began has a pilot programme at the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year and has been a […]
LA’s Vegan School Lunch Program Could Be Served to 650,000 Students Due to Popularity
The vegan school lunch pilot program that launched at the start of the 2017-2018 school year in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has been so successful this year that the district’s Food Services Division says it’s going to recommend that every school in the district — the second largest school district in the […]
School Reduces Meat and Ups Vegan Options to Tackle Climate Crisis
California is striving for a cleaner and greener future, the San Francisco Examiner reports. With ambitions to cut their carbon footprint, Oakland Unified School District made an inspired change toward plant based menus at schools. In turn, the schools’ carbon footprint was cut by 14% in two years. Additionally, water loss saw a 6% improvement […]