All New York City Public Schools Will Adopt Meatless Mondays

Meatless Monday, according to Wikipedia, is intentionally not on the traditional day of religious abstinence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatless_Monday “Meatless Monday focuses its initiative on Mondays for several reasons. Friday is traditionally already a meat-free day among Catholics and Orthodox”

FWIW as a catholic I’m pretty sure the majority of Americans in my denomination no longer follow this practice outside of the 40 days of lent anyway. But this does mean religious believers now will have to go two weekdays without meat in the NYC public schools, one forced by the city and one by their religious tradition.

Right, because meat is the only viable source of protein for humans....?

It's not like it's impossible to eat without meat. TFA states that they tried it in 15 schools in Brooklyn and they didn't find any hangups. I assume the new meals will have an appropriate amount of protein to replace what's found in the meat.

Humans don't need to eat meat.