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Hawaii: Vegetarian School Lunch Resolution Passes by William Harris, MD Senate Concurrent Resolution SCR84, “Requesting the Department of Education and the Hawaii Public School Food Service to Develop Nutritionally-sound Public School Menu Plans That Include Vegetarian and Vegan Meals,” passed the 2008 Hawaii Legislature. Most of the original provisions had been removed from its predecessor SB2136, because of objections from the Departments of Education and Health, and from the Hawaii School Food Service itself, but in its final form it received the blessings of both the DOE and the DOH. From my position the most pertinent parts are 1 and 3: 1. The Department of Education and the Hawaii School Food Service [should] consider nutritionally-sound public school menu plans that give students the option of vegetarian and vegan public school meals. 3. The DOE. [should] post on its website a list of schools that have vegetarian and vegan menu options. History: our December 1991 newsletter included a petition by member Eliot Rosen requesting support for HB3195 in the Hawaii State House of Representatives, which required that an optional low-fat vegan diet be made available in schools where students, faculty, or school lunch managers express interest. The bill went nowhere, but in the intervening years members Cheryl Chung, Carol Gabbard, Laurie Veatch, Jim Deutch, and I continued to encourage vegetarian school lunch options with Ha- 12 American Vegan 8—2, FALL 2008 waii Food Service manager Gene Kaneshiro, who has since been succeeded by Glenna Owens. In 2001 SCR151, very similar to SCR84, made it through the Senate, but HCR152, its companion, failed in the House. However, the resolutions generated some interest on the Mainland and the language was used for a similar bill in California. Finally, in 2008, Freshman Representative Joe Bertram III, 11th District (Makena-Wailea- Kihei on Maui), a raw-food vegan himself, introduced SB2136, a mandate bill “To Require the Department of Health to Develop Nutritionally-sound Public School Menu Plans That Give Students the Option of a Vegetarian School Lunch Meal.” The video of Bertram’s March 2008 VSH talk is online (all URLs are listed at the end of this article). SB2136 failed as noted above, but after modifications to some of its Whereases and Therefores it became SCR84 SD1, cleared the last hurdles, and was passed with the assistance of about 34 individuals and organizations (including HMSA) who sent in positive testimony. So, after sporadic VSH efforts spanning 15 years, the 2008 Hawaii Legislature has finally endorsed the concept that vegetarian meals may be a healthy school option. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess. However, VSH has put up a school lunch page and will link it to the DOE Vegetarian School Lunch URL when it appears. Using these as a springboard, perhaps some interested vegetarian parents can continue the process we began. A fitting finale to this win was our May 13th speaker, John Cadman from Haiku Elementary School on Maui. To our knowledge, John is the only school food service manager in Hawaii offering USDA-reimbursable vegetarian options to students on a regular basis. John’s strategy to meet the USDA requirement of 18% protein by weight of food is to use beans, and his web page displays many veggie bean recipes, bean lore, and strategies for properly cooking beans. His video “A Successful Vegetarian School Lunch Program: One Man’s Commitment,” will show on Olelo and the other Public Access TV stations sometime after June 1 2008, but it’s already online. Cadman gave us a very clear and entertaining overview of the history and practicalities of the school lunch program, and I hope that interested parties countrywide will take advantage of it in concert with the veggie school lunch pages at DOE and VSH. For my part, I don’t hold the school lunch program responsible for childhood obesity. It’s the junk food that permeates society and TV advertising, all federally subsidized by the USDA and tax- deducted by the IRS that’s causing it. But the Hawaii DOE got soft drinks out of the school vending machines a couple of years ago and that was a huge step. SCR84, if implemented vigorously, could be another. Contacts and websites
T-SHIRTS Typestyle and text as above 50% preshrunk cotton, 50% polyester Small, Medium, Large, Xtra Large, 2X Large Yellow type on Cornflower Blue, or Forest Green Shirt Adult sizes: $15 each ($12-AVS members) Youth XS, Youth S, Youth M, Youth L, Youth XL Yellow type on Forest Green, or Iris Blue Shirt Children’s sizes (Youth): $12 ($10-AVS members) HELP AVS SPREAD THE VEGAN MESSAGE! GoodSearch.com and GoodShop.com are search engines that donate half their revenues, to the charities their users designate. You use them just as you would any search engine, and they are powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results. Go to www.goodsearch.com or www.goodshop.com and enter American Vegan Society as the charity you want to support. Sequoia (5 yrs), Cypress (3 yrs), and Sebastian (7 yrs) of the Maly family, from Elmer NJ, model AVS T-shirts. Photo: January 2008 American Vegan Society 56 Dinshah Lane, PO Box 369 Malaga NJ 08328-0908 Phone (856) 694–2887, Fax:–2288 www.americanvegan.org Sign on to our E-Alert for messages. Congratulations to the Philadelphia Phillies, 2008 World Series Champions! Their Citizens’ Bank Park was named North America’s Most Vegetarian-Friendly Baseball Park for 2007 and 2008. Vegan versions of hot dogs, burgers, steak sandwiches; mock-chicken, and crabless-crabcakes are on the menu. For season updates at ball parks across North America, see the Venue Reference Guide at www.soyhappy.org/venue.htm. Healthy School Lunch Program Resolutions Have Been Passed in Four States: California (2003), New York (2004), Florida (2007), and now Hawaii (2008). Texts of the resolutions, which include provision of vegetarian and vegan meal options, may be read at www.choiceusa.net, a web site to encourage and support such initiatives—that need public support to succeed in the long run. Vegetarian School Lunch Resolution Passes by William Harris, MD reprinted from The Island Vegetarian, quarterly newsletter, Vegetarian Society of Hawaii, Vol. 19, issue 3, July-September 2008. Contacts and Websites: Hawaii Department of Education Superintendent, Patricia Hamamoto: doe.k12.hi.us/about/meet_the_supt.htm, patricia_hamamoto@notes.k12.hi.us Hawaii Board of Education: www.boe.k12.hi.us Office of School Facilities and Support Services, School Food Service Director, Glenna Owens: 808-733-8400, glenna_owens@notes.k12.hi.us Office of Hawaii Child Nutrition Programs, Child Nutrition Specialists, Alice Toguchi-Matsuo, Kenneth Ortiz: 808-587-3600 Office of Curriculum, Instruction & Student Support, Coordinated School Health Specialists, Dave Randall/Shirley Robinson: 808-733-9141 ext. 329 Department of Health, Departmental School Health Coordinator, Cathy Yamamoto Tanaka: 808-586-4437, cathykt@doh.hawaii.gov DOE school lunch website: doe.k12.hi.us/foodservice/toolkit/index.htm VSH school lunch website: www.vsh.org/links_Lunch,htm Rep. Joe Bertram III, 11th District: 808-586-8525, repbertram@Capitol.hawaii.gov “Vegetarian School Lunch Meal”: vsh.voip-info.org/Bertram.html John Cadman: mauisurfer1961@gmail.com, www.thebeanpages.com, vsh.voip-info.org/Cadman.html Positive testimony to SCR84 SD1: www.vsh.org/SCR84%20SD1.pdf Text: www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus2.asp?billno=SCR84 American Vegan 8—2, FALL 2008 13
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