Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It provides energy, can help people focus and can often be a way to relax before starting a busy day. It can make a strong case for the best meal.
Yet in campus dining halls, many vegans and people with dietary concerns are at a loss for quality options for breakfast.
This board understands it can be hard to provide options for all people for breakfast, but it is still something that needs to be done. According to the Carolina Dining Services website, of the eight items offered in the Rams Head bakery, there aren’t any options that are gluten-free — Lenoir is similar. Even the veggie sausage patties and many cereals are not vegan or gluten-free.
So, unless a vegan or a person with celiac disease wants to eat a hearty breakfast of veggie toppings (no omelet), potatoes and tofu every day, they would be better off just going hungry.
Also, the fewer animal products served in the dining halls, the smaller UNC’s ecological footprint becomes.
Generally, at other meals the dining halls do a good job at trying to make sure that all dietary concerns are addressed, so why ignore the greatest meal of all?
So please, CDS, we want all of our friends at the table on a Thursday morning so that we can discuss politics over coffee and a variety of vegan muffins — please make it where all people with any dietary concerns can eat a real, hot breakfast.
