Like many others, I have long pointed out the religious nature of much of the whackier end of the environmental movement--but I never expected them to start copying Christianity so obviously. From the April 7, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle:
SAN FRANCISCO — Besides approving rules against using plastic grocery bags, mixing recycling with compost, and smoking in sidewalk cafes, San Francisco supervisors have passed a resolution asking residents to observe meatless Mondays.
San Francisco supervisors passed the resolution Tuesday for no-meat Mondays in their latest legislative endorsement of healthy, eco-conscious living.
It cannot stop the city's residents from eating meat. Instead, it is meant to call attention to the relationship between diet and climate change.
When I was in elementary school, Catholics were still supposed to abstain from meat (although not seafood) on Fridays. As a result, our public elementary school had some sort of fish as the entree on Fridays. I've never liked fish, at least in a recognizable form (because of a traumatic incident involving a fish when I was very young), so it was a real disadvantage for me to have this inedible and disgusting substitute for food on my plate. But now that Catholics seem to have abandoned meatless Fridays, the new religion has just moved the day.
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