AHDB on "Is eating less red meat really a win ..."

[DartmoorEwe]

They really could not have buried this any deeper but at least they are trying to answer the question.

http://beefandlambmatters.blogspot.com/2019/08/is-eating-less-red-meat-really-win-for.html

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Wonder where they got the idea for some of those graphics in the blog? ?

 

[It was already broken.]

Hmmm. Is that it.

 

[PaulNix]

Looks ok but a waste of time just posting it there and not following up by spreading it all over social media as balance, is a bit like them sending us a newsletter telling us how good they are doing

 

[DartmoorEwe]

... and as for how deeply the IPCC buried their original report ... anyway, its here https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl-report-download-page/ its the pdf called "full report" in the middle of a list of pdf links. The quote that AHDB referred to is on page 26. Its pretty heavy going to read. There's a reason why people resort to sound bites.

 

[JP1]

Cambridge University decides to ban all ruminant meat

Well said Gareth Wyn Jones for taking the argument back to them:

https://www.facebook.com/157280291107537/posts/1349111255257762

 

[melted welly]

So they ban the meat that eats grass and lives outside, but housed broilers and pigs fed on grain and concentrates are fine........am I missing something???

Thinking about it, I was at wedding at trinity college Cambridge a few years ago, and they were unbelievably sensitive about you walking on the grass if you weren’t a fellow ( I believe a “fellow” to be “an old bellend who bellows from high windows telling you to get off the grass should you dare to set one foot on it”). Perhaps that’s the real reason behind this, their OCD grass based fetish.

 

[DaveGrohl]

So they ban the meat that eats grass and lives outside, but housed broilers and pigs fed on grain and concentrates are fine........am I missing something???

I think you're prob overestimating the amount of actual brainpower used to make these decisions. I doubt there's an agriculture faculty there for anyone to pipe up and call bullsh1t with any authority. They've prob just caved in to pressure from certain quarters of the students union for an easy life. You could hardly blame them for following the demands of the idiot pressure groups and the supposedly impartial BBC. Why would they look outside their own courtyards and seek reason to stand in the face of passionate but utterly misguided cash cow students?

I'm not excusing it btw, it is pathetic after all that a seat of learning such as this turns out to not give a t0ss about scientific fact.

 

[SteveHants]

I think you're prob overestimating the amount of actual brainpower used to make these decisions. I doubt there's an agriculture faculty there for anyone to pipe up and call bullsh1t with any authority. They've prob just caved in to pressure from certain quarters of the students union for an easy life. You could hardly blame them for following the demands of the idiot pressure groups and the supposedly impartial BBC. Why would they look outside their own courtyards and seek reason to stand in the face of passionate but utterly misguided cash cow students?

I'm not excusing it btw, it is pathetic after all that a seat of learning such as this turns out to not give a t0ss about scientific fact.

Cambridge university has a farm, if I recall correctly - I think vet students use it.

Edit: it does. https://www.em.admin.cam.ac.uk/operating-estate/university-farm

I would also add that the Union canteens are probably run by the student union and not the university- they are often leased by the union, whos events etc pay that lease. I'd be wary of saying its university policy.