New York Vegetarianism

Shortly before I left San Francisco, I saw an article on San Francisco's being named the "healthiest in website's analysis."  This was based on the nutrition in recipes that people in our area looked up.  (That's not to say that we made any of the dishes!)  California cities--San Diego and Los Angeles as well as San Francisco, were ranked as the top three, with New York and Portland, Oregon making up the other in the top five.  Kathryn Roethel reported that "San Franciscans aren't big on meat of any kind" and we were "dead last for beef."

But it was during this San Franciscan's short stay in New York City that The Big Apple was named by PETA as the most Vegan-Friendly City in the Nation, 2014.

http://www.amny.com/news/vegan-nyc-the-big-apple-is-the-most-friendly-to-non-meat-eaters-1.9340104

(Apples are vegan!)

The Big Apple is "where the meat-free meat to eat."

There's a vegetarian public school, too, that got this headline last October (in the Daily News):

Queens school that went vegetarian shows student gains, draws plaudit

Attendance, test scores and energy are all improved since P.S. 244 stopped serving meat in its cafeteria, officials at the Flushing school say.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/vegging-better-school-article-1.1486681

I doubt that this is a very scientific study, but I'm still impressed that they made this decision at a school that wasn't founded to be vegetarian.  It decided to cut out meat for health reasons rather than because of concern for the environment or  for the animals forced to live in torturous conditions.  

We ate at one vegan restaurant during our stay--Sacred Chow in Greenwich Village, 227 Sullivan Street, not far from Washington Park.  I thought the dishes were delicious!