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San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to designate every Monday as “Veg Day” to “encourage restaurants, grocery stores and schools to offer a greater variety of plant-based options to improve the health of San Francisco residents and visitors, and to increase the awareness of the impact a green diet would be on our planet,” according to a resolution approved by the board.

San Francisco’s action follows similar efforts in Cincinnati, Takoma Park, Md. and Ghent, Belgium.

According to the San Francisco resolution, a plant-based diet “reduces the serious ecological problems involved in livestock production” and is “good preventive medicine and could help reduce medical costs to individuals and the health care system.”