Friday, May 15, 2009

Ghent Leading the Way

Many years ago I once spent a night, if you can call it that, in little town in Belgium similar to Ghent. The club didn't open until 1am and we stayed until at least 5 or 6am then had our obligatory pomme frites with mayo.

I'm sure this scene continues today all across Belgium but Ghent has recently taken a step in a new direction.

From the BBC...
The Belgian city of Ghent is about to become the first in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week.

Starting this week there will be a regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected councillors will opt for vegetarian meals.

Public officials and politicians will be the first to give up meat for a day. Schoolchildren will follow suit with their own veggiedag in September.

Around 90,000 so-called "veggie street maps" are now being printed to help people find the city's vegetarian eateries.

1 comment:

tlm said...

Didn't we used to do this some years back? Although not strictly vegetarian, since fish was allowed. I think we called it "Friday"

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