A SWEDISH municipal child care center hosting toddlers and children between 1 and 6 years old is about to remove all meat dishes from its menu as part of an “experiment” – all to supposedly make our planet a better place.

In less than two weeks, the Gitarren preschool located in the northeastern Swedish city of Umea will become the first local municipal child care center to go completely meat-free.

The decision to start a “trial period” for a “vegan-only” menu has been part of a large-scale environmental project the facility has been working on for more than a year.

“The more we thought about it, the better it seemed,” preschool teacher Markus Sandstrom told the local Folkbladet newspaper.

“Sustainable development is [our] starting point and the meat has a great impact on climate.”

The most controversial part of the experiment is that it does not involve any exceptions for the children that do want to get some meat for breakfast or lunch – or even as a snack for that matter.

They even invited a dietitian to scientifically prove that kids will get all the nutrients they need from veggies.

According to Expressen, however, the diet is expected to include some dairy products like milk, cheese or butter as well as eggs – and fish on one of the days.

The “experiment” is scheduled to last until January, when its results will be evaluated. But the preschool hopes the new rules will stay after that as well.

Sandstrom claimed the move got a positive response from the parents and the children themselves “seemed to be very interested.”

Unlike the children’s parents, people on Twitter showed little understanding of the initiative, with many characterizing the situation as “climate alarmism [threatening] children’s health,” while others simply doubted it would have such a positive impact on the environment as the preschool hopes.

The Swedish school is not the first to cook up such an idea, however.

Previously, it was reported that schools in the U.K. and France opted for a stricter strain of veganism by banning meat and fish altogether, and even stopped children from bringing their own packed lunches.

All for the sake of climate, of course.(SD-Agencies)

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