Oxford City Council Bans Meat And Goes Plant-Based – The council has unanimously agreed to ban meat from all internal events

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  1. Nothing wrong with that in my books, and I’m a meat eater.

    If you want meat, bring your own or go somewhere else.

    There’s nothing wrong with a non-meat meal.

    They can serve what they want. When they served meat, I bet they didn’t offer every type of meat for people that don’t like the usual chicken/beef. Why is that any different to just offering no meat?

  2. And in other news, Just Eat has had a 250% increase in orders from KFC and McDonald’s for Oxford City Council meeting rooms.

  3. Couple of meals that are possible with those restrictions

    Egg and mayo sandwich

    Cheese and onion sandwich

    Sandwiches with ANY feeling that is not meat

    Fries

    Salad

    Scrambled egg

    Vegetarian curry

    Tell people you are had a Scrambled egg on toast with beans noone will question it. Tell them you had “vegetarian” Scrambled egg on toast and they act like you are eating poison. Some meat eaters love to act like if they don’t eat meat with every meal they will drop dead

  4. It’s not inherently a bad idea, as long as the replacements are decent.

    I have a suspicion this will inflame some of the conspiracy theorists though.

  6. A lot of the comments seem to have missed the point that this is only for internal meetings (where the council could already have provided whatever food they thought was suitable) rather than them inflicting this on anyone else:

    > The council will continue to serve both meat and vegan food at external council-catered events.

    Did people fail to read the article or are they intentionally pretending that this news is something it isn’t?

  7. “Brenda, they’ve swapped ham sandwiches for cheese sandwiches, get my “no surrender to New Woke Order” sign down from the loft, we’re going to Oxford again”.

  8. They did not ban anything. They chose not to feed meat to there employees.

    This is no more a ban. Then a vegetarian serving soya when they invite you to their home for a meal.

    If you don’t lime it. Grab a bacon sandwich before you arrive.

  10. The company I work for provides plant-based for internal events. It’s not a big deal. No one questions it. It’s certainly not called a ‘meat ban’. If someone wanted to turn up with a sausage roll in their pocket they could.

  11. The myth of personal responsibility continues. The top 100 companies produce over 71% of all carbon emissions. But same with recycling, if they can convince you to take these steps that don’t actually achieve anything they can keep getting away with polluting the earth.

  12. Lol and real problems shall not be dealt with in my lifetime but kudos to the vegans as this was such an important issue to deal with /s

  13. Don’t share intentionally misleading articles like this.

    This is a city that’s already experienced a mass protest of conspiracy theorists who claim the council wants them to “ban cars” and “eat the bugs” in the name of climate change. Reporting a menu change as the council “banning meat” is going to bring them back here and we don’t want that.

  15. > “In the UK we eat twice as much meat and dairy as the global average, which is not sustainable on a finite planet, as there is not enough land in the world to meet this demand,” said Dunne.

    I had no idea that Oxford was a hotbed of carnivorous consumption. Must be wall to wall steakhouses there now, compared to the last time I was around.

  20. Bit of a minor story (not that you’d think so judging by the comments!) but good on them. We should all be eating less meat or reducing our impact on the climate in comparable ways.

  23. Fine if they actually have tasty options.
    Fake cheese pizzas – no thanks.
    Vegetable baos or gyozas – great.

    Lots of cuisines that are incidentally vegan and very tasty.

    But the execution (bone dry falafels, stone cold
    samosas) tends to be really poor.

  24. I eat meat, but I think the entitlement that meat should be in every meal in every venue is just absurd. If a place doesn’t want to serve meat then that’s their prerogative. Maybe it’ll encourage people to eat less meat inclusive meals. People should eat more meat free meals throughout the week, meat doesn’t have to be in every dish.

  25. They’re just trying to save money. I went to a Revolutionary era festival that was selling “period dishes”. Not a scrap of meat in the lot. As if people in the 1700’s only ate pasta. They were just being cheap and pocketing our money

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