Ethical Vegetarian Alternative (EVA) wins the Flemish Culture Prize

Good news from Flanders: The organisation EVA (Ethical Vegetarian Alternative) has won the 2011 Flemish Culture Prize for a social-cultural organisation. EVA is awarded this prestigious prize for their "Thursday Veggie Day" campaign. In schools and administrative offices around Ghent children and city employees receive vegetarian meals on Thursdays. A great way to contribute to a healthier life-style and an ideal way to raise awareness about where our food is coming from. Surprisingly, Flemish Farmers organisation "Boerenbond" already criticised the initiative, saying the campaign implies that "eating meat is unhealty". Furthermore they find it incomprehensible that children are not given an alternative option to eat meat on a Thursday. What the Boerenbond fail to mention, is that on the other 4 days of the school week, children are not given an alternative option to eat a vegetarian meal either. What I find the most striking is that an organisation like "Boerenbond", that represents farmers who grow wheat, potatoes, cauliflower, cabbage and many other vegetables, would find it a bad thing to promote vegetables.