Pop quiz: What’s the most feared school subject? For a lot of kids, college students, and parents, it’s … lunch. The best time to fix that is now, because next year’s menus are currently being planned. Growing bodies need the best fuel they can get. With one quick email (we have a template below!), you can urge your local school to add JUST Meat to the cafeteria lineup for next fall. This one action will help bring America’s future leaders a kinder, more inclusive lunch option.
What Is JUST Meat?
JUST Meat is the latest in-demand product from the award-winning food company Eat Just. It’s a flesh-free vegan chicken that offers delicious flavor and vital nutrients without killing chickens or feeding children the harmful cholesterol and artery-clogging fat found in animal bodies. How do we know it’s tasty? JUST Meat outperformed chicken flesh in a head-to-head consumer taste test!
Three Reasons Schools Should Serve JUST Meat
1. No Chickens Died for JUST Meat
Chickens are arguably the most abused animals on the planet. Each year, roughly 9 billion chickens are killed for their flesh in the United States alone. Most of these sensitive, inquisitive individuals spend their entire lives trapped in cramped sheds, where they suffer from painful diseases, injuries, or death from the weight of their unnaturally huge bodies.
Every animal is someone. When given the chance, chickens are social and enjoy spending their days together, scratching for food, taking dust baths, roosting in trees, and basking in the sun. Just as dogs recognize their human guardians, chickens do, too, and some even run to greet them when they come home from school.
2. JUST Meat Is Healthier and More Inclusive
Children raised on the “traditional” American diet of cholesterol- and saturated fat–laden, cancer-causing chicken nuggets, hot dogs, and pepperoni pizza are showing unprecedented rates of symptoms of heart disease, the number one killer of adults in the U.S.
Adding JUST Meat will help schools expand animal-free choices that can serve all students. JUST Meat is not only kosher-friendly, but a satisfying protein option for anyone looking for healthier, climate- and animal-friendly meals.
3. It’s Easy to Offer
JUST Meat is already available through major food service providers like Aramark and Sodexo, making it simple for schools to order and serve. Eat Just can also provide samples for tastings, so students and staff can try it before it’s added to the menu—making this an easy, low-risk upgrade.
PETA is also happy to connect schools directly with the company to answer questions or help get things moving.
Take Action in JUST Seconds
Schools are planning their menus for next school year now, and when parents/guardians speak up, schools listen. Your message could help make delicious vegan chicken a regular menu item at your students’ cafeteria.
We’ve made it easy: Use our template letter. Simply fill in the bolded sections and send it to your school administrators.
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