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There is only one way to decrease this wasteful and unhealthy level of meat consumption, and that is for every individual to eat less meat. The Food Services should help foster this change in eating habits by offering more non-meat alternatives, particularly vegetarian dishes that use high-protein beans and vegetables. Students should approach these alternatives with open minds, remembering that they are probably less likely to contract food poisoning from soybeans or lentils than from "breakfast steak" or "veal parmigiana...
...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...
...some people, such as Jeffrey White, feel that students are not the only ones who need education. "The question is, can the Food Services create vegetarian menus without guidance?" he says. "They think you need eggs and cheese--if they substitute eggs, people will be outraged because of the problem of cardiovascular disease. The trick is to convince them they'll have to think in terms of other kinds of dishes...
...most well-known vegetarian alternative is soybeans--an alternative that the Food Services staff shies away from because of adverse student reaction in the past. The maximum proportion of soybeans in any Food Services recipe has been decreased from 20 percent to ten percent. Although White attributes the reluctance to use soybeans in part to student complaints, he sees it primarily as stemming from a "cultural bias in favor of a traditional way of cooking...
...Soybeans are great for feeding cows, but they aren't really where it's at," says White, who is a vegetarian himself. "They're hard to cook with. Lentils, chick peas, black-eyed peas--those are the kinds of meals I'd like the Food Services to consider...