As organizers mark the end of the first year of the Meatless Monday campaign, it appears many Israelis have come on board, 300,000. A Panels Poll shows that 20.8% of Israelis are now observing Meatless Monday on a regular basis. Reasons for joining the campaign vary, including health, opposition to shechita, saving money, opposition to animal abuse, and ecological preservation.
A growing number of Israeli businesses are eliminating meat from the cafeteria menu on Monday, including HP, Leumi Card, Teva, Intel, Motorola, Ichilov Hospital, Assaf HaRofeh Hospital, Assuta Hospital, and Beilinson Hospital to name a few.
Minister of Environmental Affairs (The Movement) Yair Peretz is an ardent supporter of Meatless Monday. The ministry will begin a radio campaign next month to urge more Israelis to join the program.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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That’s a great picture to accompany this.
I don’t think removing meat from a cafeteria menu is fair. People who aren’t interested in partaking of this movement should have the option of having a meat meal on any day.
Don’t get me wrong, I think encouraging people to eat their veggies more often instead of relying almost exclusively on meat to fill them up is a great, healthy idea. But not everyone agrees, and it isn’t right to force everyone to conform to this movement’s agenda.
The fact that some people are joining this movement to oppose shechita (as opposed to general animal slaughter, if I’m understanding the above word choice correctly) is sad and I wouldn’t want to be associated or unified in this cause with them.
1. Historically, meat was for Shabbos and Yuntuf. Only the rich had meat every day. The implication of “meatless Monday” is that one eats fleishigs the other six days.
2. Based on the supporters of the program, this is probably the beginning of the campaign to ban kosher slaughter in Eretz Yisrael. If the zionists win the battle to destroy the yeshivos, one can assume that their next targets may include kashrus.
Normal people should DAVKA eat meat on Mondays!
Normal people should fast on mondays
The Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim does not serve fleishigs on Monday and Thursdays in deference to the Yerushalmi custom on fasting on those days (except for days on which fasting is prohibited).
I believe the Chasam Sofer was of the opinion that one shouldn’t eat meat on Wednesday as the churbon took place Wednesday.
akuperma:
The story doesn’t name the supporters of “meatless Monday,” so how can you make a baseless statement like this? I’d like to hear how you know this is a truthful statement.
Reb Beinish Finkel Zt’l instructed that the Mirrer Yeshiva should not serve meat on Monday and Thursday. Since then, there has not been fleishig meals on those days in The Mir.
#8- Since when was Akuperma bound by the truth?
In addition to not eating meat, they should not eat cheese and keep milk to a minimum. Cigarette smoking should also be curtailed and an increase in Chumus, Fish, and soy should be advanced. This diet should be the norm for Sunday-Friday. This will lead to a very healthy society. Many Chareidim already do some of this. Let’s encourage the rest of society to adopt this.