Meatless Monday?

Imagine this...

It's 6 p.m. and you and your friends want to go somewhere on campus to eat. Two of your friends have meetings at 6:30 so you plan to get together at 7:30. You go online to the dining website to look at hours and find that one dining hall, Rollins, closes at 7 and then opens for "late night" at 8, while the other, Plaza, stays open until late. Then you get to looking at the menus.

"MEATLESS MONDAY!" Plaza's menu screams. Not too appetizing to my group of country-girl friends, especially when several of them are involved in animal agriculture. Eggplant, gnocchi fritii and other vegetarian dishes I can't pronounce line the menu. Needless to say, we decide on Late Night. 

Greasy and completely unhealthy pizza and breadsticks, here we come!

There is something beside the slight frustration of tonight's dining experience that I wanted to share with you. It's something I see regularly on publicity material for events like this one.

Take a look at the advertisement for Meatless Monday found on the MU Campus Dining website...

(Note: This is NOT the picture I saw in the cafeteria, though it has the same style. I wish I could have loaded the actual picture, it had this particular cow with a thought bubble above her head saying "I deserve a holiday!" This picture was found here)

Do you notice something that doesn't belong?

We're going meatless today, but that doesn't mean this particular cow is going to get a 'holiday.' She's a milk cow, not beef, and I don't think she'd be very happy if she had a day off from milking. 

Just another observation from the journey of an ag advocate. 

And as a side note, check out this website to see some interesting dairy facts.