1 Melissa Thurman
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Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 6:32 PM
To: Melissa Thurman; CouncilSB
Subject: Public Comment for City Council Special Meeting, Feb 17 2022 Dear City Council Members,
When I found out about San Bruno’s senior center and began to take advantage of its programs, lunches were meatless on Fridays. A couple of years ago that changed, and since then lunches have rarely been meatless. Recently, a UN climate-change report stated that climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying. It recommended that people consume less meat, and that politics create appropriate incentives to that effect (Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for change to human diet). Many sources have recommended reducing meat consumption as one of the most effective ways a person can combat climate change (7 Instant Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint). The senior center is again looking at potential changes to their lunch program. I hope San Bruno will support the fight against climate change by reinstating meatless Friday (or Monday, or any other day) lunches at the senior center. I hope San Bruno will also look at the potential to reduce meat consumption in any other meal programs it runs or subsidizes. Thank you.
Marsha Glassner
Eat less meat: UN climate-change report calls for
change to human diet
The report on global land use and agriculture comes amid accelerating deforestation in the Amazon.
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