London Uni Campus Beef Ban

[caveman]

Goldsmiths bans beef from university cafes to tackle climate crisis

University of London college will also seek to limit single-use plastics

www.theguardian.com

 

[caveman]

Just heard this woman talking some sense on the radio.

Joanna Blythman on why going veggie is not British

Turning cow pasture into cornfields isn't always an option. Joanna Blythman on why going veggie is not British

www.theguardian.com

 

[ISCO]

We need more information like this which I believe sums things up accurately and is the way meat production will need to go to survive.

 

[Post Driver]

Was that on LBC?

I didn't get her name

Just heard this woman talking some sense on the radio.

Joanna Blythman on why going veggie is not British

Turning cow pasture into cornfields isn't always an option. Joanna Blythman on why going veggie is not British

www.theguardian.com

 

[delilah]

Joanna Blythman has for years been my food writing heroine. Read her books. I have said that she should be paid a retainer to be a red meat champion.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Joanna Blythman has for years been my food writing heroine. Read her books. I have said that she should be paid a retainer to be a red meat champion.

At which point those with an opposing view will simply say she’s in the pocket of the meat industry, at the moment she’s independent, just be grateful there are folk like her out there.

 

[delilah]

At which point those with an opposing view will simply say she’s in the pocket of the meat industry, at the moment she’s independent, just be grateful there are folk like her out there.

good point, well made.

 

[Tarw Coch]

good point, well made.

It’s what I like about this forum, You came up with a very good idea, it’s only when someone else looks at it from a slightly different perspective that things aren’t quite as straightforward as they seem.

 

[Woolless]

Goldsmiths bans beef from university cafes to tackle climate crisis

University of London college will also seek to limit single-use plastics

www.theguardian.com

Sounds like a good business opportunity for someone to pitch a burger/kebab van just outside the campus. A week or two of veggie grub and they'll be forming an orderly queue!

 

[caveman]

Was that on LBC?

I didn't get her name

Yes.

 

[Still Farming]

Big bit in papers today also?
Crazy.
What's the Unions responces?

 

[ISCO]

GMB reported this today and said NFU had said that this was a too simplistic reaction and the bigger picture of grazing and locally produced should be considered and carbon captured in grassland or words to that effect. There was not an NFU spokesperson just a quote.

 

[farmerm]

How about they also ban all lighting and heating on the campus that exceeds the output of their solar panels... and in order to reduce the biggest driver for environmental impact ie population growth, all students must pledge a lifetime of celibacy.

 

[Still Farming]

Stop Foreign students and their air travel that would reduce their carbon footprint?

 

[curlietailz]

And make the professors and staff walk to work
Wearing woollen or hemp clothing only
Ban all plastics and man made fibres from their campuses
And only use their solar energy ie disconnect from the Grid
Only serve food grown in the UK..... raw obviously as the heat source for cooking requires carbon release
Convert all their toilets to compost toilets and use dock leaves instead of toilet paper
Harvest rainwater to use on campus
Etc etc

 

[Gong Farmer]

Let them carry on, they are saving the planet with this single measure, no-one else need worry about climate change anymore and beef can be sold everywhere else.

 

[Yale]

A little knowledge is dangerous!

You think a University would look for facts not just follow vegan propaganda.

Muppets.

 

[Katarina]

Is this ban on beef legal and is it not infringement on people's free choice and civil liberties?

 

[PostHarvest]

pitch a burger/kebab van just outside the campus.

One of my contacts does just that at Warwick University when they have open days, prospective student tours etc. He sells burgers made from grass fed Dexters and usually has a queue round the block.

 

[Still Farming]

The carbon footprint of imported veg be high too?
Are they banning that also?