Comandante Bill decrees limits on the range of school kids' choices about what goes in their mouths

Whenever food-related news items come across the LITD radar, I preface my posts about them by saying, "Now it's personal."

Food is a hugely important part of my life. I love buffalo chicken wings slathered in ranch dressing. I love barbecued ribs. Well-marbled ribeye. A double order of sausage patties drenched in sausage gravy.

I'm not immediately impacted by this, but now I know I must marshal all my resources to see that that remains the case.

This is a wicked salvo in post-America's cold civil war indeed:

Local New York media reports that the "Meatless Mondays" pilot program, which brought vegetarian meals to around 15 Brooklyn schools, will expand city-wide for the 2019-2020 school year, and "all schools will serve vegetarian menus on Mondays" to the city's 1.1 million students.

De Blasio told a press conference Monday that the change will help improve the health of New York's students, and will hopefully have an impact on climate change.

“Cutting back on meat a little will improve New Yorkers' health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “We're expanding Meatless Mondays to all public schools to keep our lunch and planet green for generations to come.”

"Meatless Monday" options will include things like "whole grain rotini pasta with herbed marinara sauce," and the likely less popular, "kid friendly kale salad."

The program, at least, is "cost neutral," since the city already spends money on feeding students; in this case, they're simply adjusting the menu to accommodate one vegetarian meal per week. Like other cities, New York is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and a costly experiment in vegetarianism might just be what sends the city — and the city's residents — over the edge.

There are actually a lot of layers of guidance to be discerned here. Get your kids out of government schools. Never vote for a Democrat for any office at any level of government. Bone up on the data proving that the global climate is not in any kind of crisis. Enjoy beef, pork, lamb, goat, deer, rabbit and squirrel. Lots of it. Feed any leftovers to your dog and / or cat. They are carnivores as well and will greatly appreciate the treat.

And resist the slightest encroachment on your freedom that the Freedom-Hater jackboots are trying to impose on us.

Oh, and never elect somebody as mayor of your city who took his honeymoon in Havana.