California is the global epicenter of healthy eating. The Golden State is one of the few places on the planet where it’s possible to get avocado on literally everything, fresh fruit isn’t something you only see on the Trix box six months out of the year and sushi is easier to come by than White Castle hamburgers.

Yet, if you believe one Los Angeles city councilman we are way too hung up on meat and dairy.

Councilman Paul Koretz is proposing a law to require at least one vegan protein option at all concessionaire locations at city-operated venues, parks, the Los Angeles Zoo, Meals on Wheels programs, Los Angeles International Airport restaurants, movie theaters and large-scale entertainment venues.

Koretz believes there is a link between the meat and dairy industry and the environment, and cited an Oxford University study that suggested that if more people in the United States adopted plant-based eating it could cut greenhouse-gas emissions from food sources by 70 percent.

While explaining his reasoning to CBS 2, Koretz said, “I want to make it easier for us to do better around the city, as well as provide more options for people who are already following a plant-based diet.”

As you can imagine, Koretz’s push is widely popular with the plant-based diet community, as vegans have vowed to fight for this measure as long as their gaunt, emaciated, malnourished bodies will allow them to.

But the stupidity, chutzpah and blatant government overreach of this campaign are truly difficult to quantify.

Let’s start with the fact that if the customers of these restaurants wanted vegan options available, they would already be on the menu. It’s been a while since I’ve taken an economics class, but I’m pretty sure that’s how the free market works.

Speaking of which, I believe the free market has already spoken on this subject.

There’s a name for vegan restaurants. What’s that name again? Oh, yeah, now I remember: CLOSED!

Plus, many of these venues already offer patrons meatless options. I guess Koretz just wants more to choose from.

I know it’s easy to assume the only vegan entree at a place like Lawry’s is a toothpick and maybe a packet of Equal, but even the meatiest of all the steakhouses still offers salad.

As long as your greens aren’t swimming in a lake of of ranch dressing, they’re perfectly meat and dairy-less.

At movie theaters the artificial buttery flavor they put on popcorn is already vegan — my guess is it’s mostly silicone and benzene.

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Constant exemptions are a lousy way to make law My favorite vegan option at LAX is the double Bloody Mary with extra celery. Contrary to popular belief, not all Bloody Marys need to come with a slice of bacon and shrimp cocktail.

Did you notice that gas stations are exempt from this idiotic requirement? I’m told it’s because they already offer a 100 percent meat-free snack item: Slim Jims.

As Councilman Koretz gobbles up meatless headlines with this insane proposal, I’d like to know what he’s doing about the city’s crippling transportation crunch, unfunded pension liability and rising crime rate?

Or our biggest embarrassment of all — L.A.’s exploding homeless population.

Every minute Koretz spends pushing this is a minute he doesn’t spend on the city’s actual problems.

Although maybe Councilman Koretz is hard at work trying to fix the homeless problem indirectly through his vegan initiative and we don’t even know it.

Come January maybe the city will give every panhandler a sign that says, “Will Work For Quinoa”?

John Phillips can be heard weekdays at 3 p.m. on “The Drive Home with Jillian Barberie and John Phillips” on KABC/AM 790.