Word: meatless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these observers is Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, who proposed two weeks ago that Harvard institute as many as two meatless days a week. Under Mayer's plan, meat would be replaced by fish on one of these days and by a vegetarian dish on the other...
Mayer's original proposal included a provision for channeling the savings from meatless days into a program for world food relief. But the Food Services staff is skeptical about the amount of money that would be saved, citing the rising cost of fish and meat substitutes. "We would still have to provide a menu acceptable to our customers, the students," says Benjamin H. Walcott '63, assistant to the director of the Food Services. "And it might cost more to keep customer satisfaction...
...emphasizes that the impetus for such a change in consumption patterns at Harvard must come from students themselves, noting that "no college administrator in 1974 would be so demented as to impose a change in diet." President Bok, who has asked his staff to research the possibility of instituting meatless days, has said that "you cannot impose that kind of morality" on students...
...just what the consensus of student opinion is on the issue--and for many students, food is a very touchy subject. Jeffrey W. White '75, a member of Harvard Ecology Action, says he hopes to get the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life to approve an experimental period of meatless days, but adds that "no action should be taken unless there is a definite movement of student opinion." White and other members of Ecology Action distributed a questionnaire in some House dining halls last week and found that over half of the approximately 600 students polled favored some version...
...list of recommendations released yesterday, Mayer suggested that all Americans conform to a "two-meatless-days-a-week" schedule. Mayer also criticized the progress of the World Food Conference in Rome, saying the United States should put pressure on the Soviet Union and the "new rich" OPEC countries to contribute major help to world food relief...