Educate yourself on what you’re really supportingEducate yourself on what you’re really supporting

Richard
Berman

Mario Batali, the famed ex-“Iron Chef” and restaurateur, has turned his coat and joined up with the radical environmental fringe. Batali now publicly endorses the Meatless Monday campaign and applies this philosophy to his restaurants.


What’s wrong with going meatless once a week? It sounds like eating in moderation. But the backers of the Meatless Monday campaign have a broader agenda behind the façade of health. 


Back in 2003 my staff discovered that the Meatless Monday campaign has its origins with Helaine Lerner, a New York socialite who has ties to plenty of animal-rights, anti-meat and “sustainable” agriculture propaganda.


In 2000 a Lerner fund gave $546,000 to Johns Hopkins University’s Center for a Livable Future, a...