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Students vote to ban meat from university
BURGERS and lamb chops may soon be off the menu after Oxford students voted to ban meat from the university.
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
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Oxford students vote to ban beef and lamb from university
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bit off-topic, but i still find it totally immersion breaking that the uruk-hai would know the word "menu".
Beef I can understand because it's a carcinogen + production of it is destroying the amazon and makes climate change worse
Is lamb really that bad too?
Is lamb really that bad too?
I thought lamb/goat were fairly not as horrible for the environment/climate compared to cattle?
I'm assuming chicken and pork is ok?
I'm assuming chicken and pork is ok?
Excellent, I hope others follow. It's inconvenient, but absolutely the reasonable and ethical choice.
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they can take our burgers, but they can never take our bacon.
In terms of emissions, lamb and pork are pretty similar. But lamb actually ranks worse for mean land use than beef.
I think the lamb is probably a mixture of reasons. We import a fair amount of lamb from New Zealand which isn't exactly close, it's also less common than the other meats and is probably just easier to get rid of because less people will care.
Ban all animal products. Only moral option and best for the environment.
It would be nice if we could do that, unfortunately like a lot of things, it's not that fucking simple.
What about Aragorn telling the elves "prepare to fire" at Helms Deep
Good on them, I'm pleasantly surprised anything like this actually passed a vote of any kind.
I agree, but get ready for some mental gymnastics.
How is it not that simple for a uni to stop stocking animal products?
And to preempt any accusations that vegan is so expensive I became one when I was a poor uni student with 60% of my income just going to rent.
I do think it should but this discussion was about what was gong on at Oxford.
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Lamb is awful for the environment. Urukhai are distressingly boujee for their background.
Same. Had a high school friend go there for undergrad and she raved about a dining hall with 3 course meals. I could compromise on the lamb, but beef? No steaks? Nah, miss me with that. I really gotta wonder what the student union is and how voting works there. Oxford has what like 20000 students? I doubt they all agreed to this.
It was banned in Cambridge 4 years ago, all is ok.
People still can have 3 course meals.
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Lamb is awful for the environment. Urukhai are distressingly boujee for their background.
Wow, lamb is much more impactful than I thought.
I remember our local meat industry (nz) having a big old cry about the introduction of meat alternatives being served on airlines. Its a large part of our exports, but there has to be a way to repurpose some of these farm lands.
I guess you could eat turkey or duck and the like instead of beef.
Most universities at least in the US have chains on campus but they also have dining halls that are run by the school through third parties and thus those menus can be controlled.
I'm sure there's a cost factor for these halls in some way (maybe they don't have to be profitable, but surely somewhat financially successful), and tbh, I would never order a faux burger unless it was lime an Impossible one or something that could taste good :P
If they think ground turkey burgers wouldn't go over very well, no reason to waste time stocking the stuff for them.
This. In much the same way that I recognize that if I were vegetarian, I would likely be healthier, pay less, and help prevent emissions, I'm still not one. Meat - and beef in particular - is stupendous.
Huh? You never heard of meal plan? most universities/colleges have them, and yes they have their own cafeteria.
Also, people, students wants get rid of the meat from their meal plan menu, I'm pretty sure if you are that desperate for a piece of beef, you can buy it in supermarket or something. Especially if you already study in Oxford.
In that sense yeah, I understand.
I don't think meal plans were a thing during my time, at least not where I went anyway. I'm in Canada. I also didn't live in dorms.
Goes to show they weren't some mindless savages like the movie made them out to be.
I'm in US but the paper talk about the canteen so I'm pretty sure they have the same system over there.
Yeah but have you had lamb? It's to die for. Collectively. Like our whole species.
EWG’s quick tips for reducing your diet's climate footprint
The way we eat has a direct impact on the climate crisis, and there are steps everyone can take to rethink their diets in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Lamb is awful for the environment. Urukhai are distressingly boujee for their background.