Dean Lee, MD
wrote
At the Hennepin County Detention Center inmates are served meat at least
twice a day. This costs the taxpayers a fortune. Inmates can eat mostly
vegetarian meals as do billions of people around the world. This will not
only cost
the taxpayers less it will be better for the planet.
". . . Until June of last year, I was the medical director for the MN DOC
and watched hundreds of 'offenders' get fat on the prison diet, get
diabetes,
hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, back pain etc. As a result of these
obesity related disorders, they get started on very expensive drugs, sent
to the
hospital for testing jeopardizing security, and eventually hospitalized
for
related illnesses as they deteriorate.
In August of 1997, smoking was banned. Converting to a vegetarian diet
would be great, for offender health, the state's pocketbook, and for
security."
I'll second that. Maybe we should schedule a screening of SUPERSIZE ME for
the Henn Co Board.
Of course, we won'e only be up against the food processors (notice I didn't
say "producers") but the health care industry lobbyists as
well--particularly the pharmacuetical industry with all their hypertension
and diabetic supply sales.
Steven Nelson
Willard Hay
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