UEA reverses beef ban decision

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Beef WILL be sold on UEA campus after u-turn on decision

PUBLISHED: 12:07 07 December 2019

The University of East Anglia's student union council has overturned its decision to ban the sale of beef on campus. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto
A student-elected university council has reversed its decision to ban the sale of beef on its campus.


In November, the University of East Anglia's Union Council passed the motion for climate change reasons.
At the time, it was passed by 1pc, with 47pc of councillors voting to ban, 46pc against the motion and 7pc abstaining.
It split opinion, led to backlash from farmers and raised concerns over the impact on Students' Union-run venues.
But on Thursday, the union council voted to reverse its controversial ban, in a debate which, according to student newspaper Concrete, last roughly half an hour.

After, 52pc of councillors voted in favour of reversing the ban, with 36pc voting against doing so and 12pc abstaining.
Jack Annand and Matty Yandle, of Cocktail Society and Pasta Society, proposed the motion to reverse the ban.
The union will now reinstate beef products.
The Union Council is formed by full and part-time officers from the UEA Students' Union, representatives from each course and from every club and society.

Beef WILL be sold on UEA campus after u-turn on decision

A student-elected university council has reversed its decision to ban the sale of beef on its campus.

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[SteveHants]

Two thoughts:
I'd forgotten how ridiculous the title of student newspapers tend to be.
Cocktail and pasta soc? Sounds very much like "drinking heavily" soc to me.... We had the "Gentleman's soc" for that when I was at uni, and I then went on to form the Angling soc, who would give both them and Rugby a good run for their money on the drinking front (we seemed to have a disproportionate number of mature students)…..

 

[Still Farming]

https://www.facebook.com/45093379305/posts/10157976250529306

 

[Purli R]

Oh No. Not an outbreak of common sense-heaven forbid.

 

[Scribus]

Two thoughts:
I'd forgotten how ridiculous the title of student newspapers tend to be.
Cocktail and pasta soc? Sounds very much like "drinking heavily" soc to me.... We had the "Gentleman's soc" for that when I was at uni, and I then went on to form the Angling soc, who would give both them and Rugby a good run for their money on the drinking front (we seemed to have a disproportionate number of mature students)…..

Then there was the old favourite 'The Apathy Society ' with no members whatsoever.

 

[Bill the Bass]

Interesting how they cite religious persecution as one of the reasons for bringing it back on the menu...