Taxpayer funded dollars go to serving meat and meat products in our schools and prisons. This leads to a number of negative factors:
- substandard quality of meat being served
- increased health care costs and health risks including obesity, heart disease, and cancer
- increased cost of meat for consumers
- higher taxes to serve meat vs. lower cost vegetable substitutes
- increased environmental damage caused by higher demand for livestock
- increased costs to hire more government inspectors
If we stop serving meat in these places it will benefit the individuals involved and society as a whole. It will reduce the burden on the meat industry to stop making low grade meat.