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Belgian City Goes Vegetarian, Weekly

Ghent officials, schoolkids to observe "veggie day"

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(Newser) – In good news for Belgian cows, the city of Ghent this week begins a weekly “veggie day,” on which officials will go vegetarian, the BBC reports. The move is an effort to cut greenhouse gases, almost a fifth of which come from livestock, the UN says; the city also foresees health benefits for locals. Schoolkids will have a veggie day of their own in the fall.

A member of an animal-welfare organization poses naked in giant meat packaging to compare humans with prepackaged meat in a supermarket, in a shopping street in Ghent, Belgium, Dec. 20, 2008.
A member of an animal-welfare organization poses naked in giant meat packaging to compare humans with prepackaged meat in a supermarket, in a shopping street in Ghent, Belgium, Dec. 20, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Ghent, in Belgium, is holding a weekly
Ghent, in Belgium, is holding a weekly "veggie day."   (Shutterstock)
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NutsInNY
May 13, 09 9:27 PM CDT
NOTE: In Belgium "veggie day" means "all the waffles you can eat". (Newser's stock photo of a tomato notwithstanding.) Reply
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