Absolutely not. Meats are full of protein and iron. Most importantly, let the children decide for themselves what their meat eating / veggie / vegan preferences be. Don’t force it upon them because you find it offensive that people eat meat.
I think all school meals should be well balanced and free. I don’t think they should exclude major food groups for any reason really.
What protein are they having beans every day a balanced diet is the sensible option.
Veganism is not a naturally healthy diet. You need multiple supplements to replace things only found in animal and fish products.
Making all meals vegan to satisfy a few
This march towards progressiveness smells more and more like fascism every day
No because most of this meat replacement stuff is crap!
If anything the move towards Veganism has replaced good vegetarian cooking with meat replacements full of salt and crap, and it isn’t even cooked right when it is cooked
I think kids should have the choice but otherwise a balanced diet would be more appropriate.
Opinion: wtf is this bait piece from the telegraph.
What is going on in this thread.
Nothing triggers people quicker than hearing their meat orientated lifestyle is bad for the environment. I say this as a meat eater, but I at leat accept my own hypocrisy saying we should do more to be sustainable while continuing to eat meat life beef. I accept that objectively speaking, meat production (particularly beef) is horrible for the environment.
> Ethical veganism is protected under the Equality Act 2010 as a philosophical belief.
I’m all for schools offering a range of choices so children can eat healthy hot meals at school but this is a step too far for me.
We don’t need to make their lives worse by forcing them to be vegan.
Disagree. It needs to be healthy food not the ultrprocessed cheap crap they seem to feed them that leads to all sorts of mental health and physical problems.
Oh boy the low iq brigade are out. Human diet is not eating meat. There is a physiological difference from meat eaters and true omivores to those creatures that don’t eat meat. The biggest difference is the intestinal tract. True omnivores and carnivours have intestinal tract that is 6 times the body length. Those who have a plant based diet have intestinal tract that is upto 12 times the body size. Humans have an intestinal tract that is 12 times the body size which proves beyond doubt the human diet is non meat
What a load of rubbish, we are meant to eat meat. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be cutting back, but some kids rely on their school meals as their main meal, and taking all meat out of their diets is not a good idea
Fuck off. I have IBS. My intestines cannot cope with the majority of vegan proteins. Not to mention that a) different people thrive on different foods and b) children are picky enough already and taking away the few nutritious things they actually want to eat will only lead to more malnutrition. Meat isn’t the problem, how we get it and how much we consume is.
How about let the kids decide if they want to eat meat? The fact that veganism is not chosen by the majority of people who currently eat meat doesn’t mean you should just rob kids of the opportunity so there’s less around when they grow up. I’m not consigning my family to a miserable carbon neutral existence whilst corporations dump thousands of tonnes of it.
Don’t worry… bugs will be folded into the ‘ethical vegan’ cycle soon in order to provide extra protein.
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Opinion: No, they shouldn’t
No, they should learn how to eat well
Absolutely not. Meats are full of protein and iron. Most importantly, let the children decide for themselves what their meat eating / veggie / vegan preferences be. Don’t force it upon them because you find it offensive that people eat meat.
I think all school meals should be well balanced and free. I don’t think they should exclude major food groups for any reason really.
What protein are they having beans every day a balanced diet is the sensible option.
Ah yes, let’s feed our kids highly processed vegetable oils and flavourings.
Awful idea. Get in the bin.
Veganism is not a naturally healthy diet. You need multiple supplements to replace things only found in animal and fish products.
Making all meals vegan to satisfy a few
This march towards progressiveness smells more and more like fascism every day
No because most of this meat replacement stuff is crap!
If anything the move towards Veganism has replaced good vegetarian cooking with meat replacements full of salt and crap, and it isn’t even cooked right when it is cooked
I think kids should have the choice but otherwise a balanced diet would be more appropriate.
Opinion: wtf is this bait piece from the telegraph.
What is going on in this thread.
Nothing triggers people quicker than hearing their meat orientated lifestyle is bad for the environment. I say this as a meat eater, but I at leat accept my own hypocrisy saying we should do more to be sustainable while continuing to eat meat life beef. I accept that objectively speaking, meat production (particularly beef) is horrible for the environment.
> Ethical veganism is protected under the Equality Act 2010 as a philosophical belief.
I’m all for schools offering a range of choices so children can eat healthy hot meals at school but this is a step too far for me.
We don’t need to make their lives worse by forcing them to be vegan.
Disagree. It needs to be healthy food not the ultrprocessed cheap crap they seem to feed them that leads to all sorts of mental health and physical problems.
Oh boy the low iq brigade are out. Human diet is not eating meat. There is a physiological difference from meat eaters and true omivores to those creatures that don’t eat meat. The biggest difference is the intestinal tract. True omnivores and carnivours have intestinal tract that is 6 times the body length. Those who have a plant based diet have intestinal tract that is upto 12 times the body size. Humans have an intestinal tract that is 12 times the body size which proves beyond doubt the human diet is non meat
What a load of rubbish, we are meant to eat meat. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be cutting back, but some kids rely on their school meals as their main meal, and taking all meat out of their diets is not a good idea
Eating corpses is indicated in increased risk of [heart disease](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2021.1949575) and the leading cause of [colorectal cancer](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01635581.2013.756534), which has [been known since ~1950s](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages). The environmental catastrophe it causes ([~ 25% GHG emissions](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0377840111001775)) is presumably warranted on grounds of taste? Eating raw [meat can kill you](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/). Eating raw apple is not linked to an outbreak of any disease afaik.
Fuck off. I have IBS. My intestines cannot cope with the majority of vegan proteins. Not to mention that a) different people thrive on different foods and b) children are picky enough already and taking away the few nutritious things they actually want to eat will only lead to more malnutrition. Meat isn’t the problem, how we get it and how much we consume is.
How about let the kids decide if they want to eat meat? The fact that veganism is not chosen by the majority of people who currently eat meat doesn’t mean you should just rob kids of the opportunity so there’s less around when they grow up. I’m not consigning my family to a miserable carbon neutral existence whilst corporations dump thousands of tonnes of it.
Don’t worry… bugs will be folded into the ‘ethical vegan’ cycle soon in order to provide extra protein.