Move Over, Montel. We're More Impressed with Your Daughter.

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-04-30 08:33:00 UTC
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Perhaps you've heard--Wyntergrace Williams, 15-year-old daughter of Montel Williams, is a smart, compassionate, healthy vegetarian. She's been instrumental in getting healthy vegan and vegetarian options onto the menu at her own school, and now she's working with the Healthy School Lunches campaign of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to get those healthy, compassionate options into all schools. As Williams's petition to her own Connecticut middle school explained, "Whether we choose them out of compassion for animals, or because of concerns about health or the environment, we all benefit from having plant-based meals available. We want to work with our cafeteria to make these new healthful offerings a success." Does this young woman rock or what?

Wyntergrace is in D.C. this week, asking members of Congress to amend the Child Nutrition Act to reflect the importance and necessity of plant-based options in school cafeterias, and she's also hoping she can get two other famous daughters--Malia and Sasha Obama, themselves members of a health-conscious family--to join the effort.

Perhaps you've also noticed the related petition on this site, asking you to "Tell Congress to Provide Vegetarian and Vegan Meal Options in Public Schools." If you haven't signed it yet, now's the time to do it. During the voting for the Ideas for Change project, thousands supported the excellent idea posted by Alex Hershaft of FARM calling for healthy vegan school lunch options. Please support this petition to Congress now too.

Emphasis, of course, needs to be on vegan, truly healthy options, not just options labeled "vegetarian"--which are too often heavy on cream and cheese, neither compassionate nor healthy.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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