UK: Kids teach how you can save rainforest in every meal?

“This is their community service project,” fourth-grade teacher Kate
Belavitch said. Proceeds will go to the Rainforest Alliance Network
for the Protect-an-Acre program. Belavitch said the students came up
with the idea after learning the rain forest is being destroyed partly
to graze cattle, which are then slaughtered for meat.

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Hampstead Academy sixth-graders like Andrew Calandra usually dig into
a pepperoni sandwich for lunch. But yesterday, Andrew, 11, and many of
his classmates in the upper school skipped the beef and enjoyed rice,
Indian gravy, pasta salad and other meatless dishes — all part of a
special lunch cooked up by the fourth-graders and their parents to
save the rain forest.

The cost was $5 per person. Camilla Guo, 9, of  Windham said only 7 percent of the rain forest is left because people are cutting it down to make money. “The animals are getting killed,” she said.

The lunch showed people they can help save exotic rain forest animals, like the paca and okapi, by eating a vegetarian meal, Belavitch said. Fourth-grade students served the meal. Sarah Miller-Bartle, 9, stood behind a dessert table and answered questions about cookies and brownies.

“We baked all these things and they can’t have beef in them,” she said. Sarah said she liked learning about rain forest animals. One of her favorites is the okapi, which she described as a cross between a zebra and a giraffe.

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