Fightback against vegetables …. bloody kale coming over here and using all our plates.
Plant based can be healthy.
It can also be toxic mass produced synthetic shite.
Semi related – my vegan friend hates the expression “plant based” because it’s not always vegan.
>’Meat is high in iron; milk, dairy products are high in vitamins. And we don’t want children, some of them from poorer backgrounds who don’t get a decent meal at home, not getting a decent meal at school either.’
Most kids at school dont get a healthy/decent meal either. I dont see these MPs campaigning for increased funding so schools can actually afford to providing good quality healthly meals. Meat free days are a good idea in theory but at the moment most school kids are still going to be served plates full of boring beige food.
Also it makes sense that councils will switch over to vegan/veggie catering for offical events. Its easier to organise since more people can eat the same thing regardless of things like religion. Articles like this seem to scaremonger that meat and dairy is being banned and that vegans are going to force feed you tofu. Its total nonsense.
Farming animals for food produces a lot of global emissions so we need to decrease the amount of meat we eat anyway and these small things will be helpful, especially as they are more widely adopted around the world.
They do realise that they arent going to get that meat money right?
Schools do not have the money to afford more than mystery meat factory processed and shipped over by the boat load.
If they do however want to sell to schools well they can happily impovish themselves by subcontracting under the major companies that hold all the catering contracts.
This seems quite disingenuous. Plant based meals can definitely be healthy and ‘decent’ and include the necessary vitamins and minerals
>At least nine councils serve only plant-based meals at their events
Council catered events. Not schools. The school thing is one meat-free day per week – hardly outrageous. This is a misleading headline for outrage-baiting (but Daily Mail, not surprising.)
The Daily Mail comments on that article..
Just fucking kill me now
Vegetarianism disguised as “we can’t afford meat anymore”
Glad school meals are moving on from frozen prepped packets and back to authentic vegetables – let’s not keep an old message going for new generations that meat is essential and milk is good for you! It’s all food isn’t it?
xD their truly grasping. Kids don’t eat enough vegetables this sounds like a good idea to me.
I notice it’s farmers that are furiously resisting, not dieticians or public health experts.
I wonder if losing the stealth subsidy provided through a system that enables farmers to foist their otherwise unsaleable offcuts and by-products onto a group that can’t protest is perhaps the motivating factor in their outrage.
Short of throwing meat at the kids I don’t see how they can
What kind of weird farmers can’t grow and sell plants?
Lets be honest, schools were never providing quality meat. At least there is a chance they might provide real leeks.
Can’t we just be sensible like in France and just provide good meals.
The shite served up in canteens in the UK is frankly embarrassing.
I remember having (celeriac) remoulade and carrot salad, roast chicken thigh and home made chips for one meal at the French eq. of nursery. It was all made at school and no question of kids dodging the salad.
What are the farmers going to do? Go to the schools, slaughter cows and sheep and force the schools to serve them?
Cheaper food so better ability in increase quality and potentially more vegetables being bought. Win win?
Good on them, sorry Reddit but farmers have been getting shafted by the government for decades.
Comments like ‘why can’t they just grow plants instead?’ shows the utter ignorance city dwellers have about farming and the countryside.
Those school dinners look incredibly sad.
And I’m fine with adults choosing to be vegan/vegetarian, but don’t force it on children who are still growing.
This is actually a good thing, and it can be a struggle to get kids to eat enough fruit and veg at the best of times. All the vitamins they need can be gotten without needing to eat meat every day.
It’s a bullshit Daily Fail/Heil article making out like meat and dairy are about to be banned. It’s coming from a nonsensical and frankly disingenuous position.
Stop taking what they print literally, it’s a right wing rag, a joke of a news outlet with zero credibility.
When I was a facilities manager for a primary school, the catering suppliers tried a vegetarian option. It was not a popular choice despite it being “healthy” and in the same league of nasty as everything else they dreamed up at £2.20 a head.
They served something like 13 meals out of nearly 22800 covers to pupils over a year.
It’s still an option on the menu but now you have to order it a week in advance. I don’t think anyone does though.
So if the farmers aren’t growing the plants, who is?
Bring back Turkey twizzlers i say. I used to love twizzler day
[Archive link](https://archive.ph/ACyGX) for those who want to expose themselves to the guff, without sending undeserved clicks to a vile propaganda rag.
The best thing about the article is the comments… Genuinely there’s one saying that this is a ploy to turn boys into girls and they’re “stealing our children” 😂
A quick scan of the Fail I saw it said the intention is one veggy meal a weak. Nothing wrong with that. Plus their parents can still serve them twizzlers all week for tea plus weekends.
Third comment down…
>David, Reading, about 7 hours ago
This is how they try to turn boys into girls. Keep them malnourished and weak to discourage masculinity and get them to transition. They will not claim our children.
How do you reach that conclusion?!!! Perhaps not enough brain food in his diet. Also by that logic what will happen to girls?!
Follow the money. They do not care about healthy eating, the environment or workery, just profit for farmers & meat/dairy industry.
With the smaller farmer squeezing themselves out of the market as they are unable to compete with the £1.00 chicken and import duty free titi beef imports from countries like the US and Oz with its 80 extra hormones which won’t be able to be sold in the EU etc GMO crops also you couldn’t sell on the EU and green belt land and environmental deregulation development ie look around Brighton green belt and the South Downs being sold for housing who’d have thought that?? giant USA style mile super farms discreetly opening I would hasten to add they shot themselves in the foot and no sympathy whatsoever for these muppets who’ve help drag themselves and country down.
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Fightback against vegetables …. bloody kale coming over here and using all our plates.
Plant based can be healthy.
It can also be toxic mass produced synthetic shite.
Semi related – my vegan friend hates the expression “plant based” because it’s not always vegan.
>’Meat is high in iron; milk, dairy products are high in vitamins. And we don’t want children, some of them from poorer backgrounds who don’t get a decent meal at home, not getting a decent meal at school either.’
Most kids at school dont get a healthy/decent meal either. I dont see these MPs campaigning for increased funding so schools can actually afford to providing good quality healthly meals. Meat free days are a good idea in theory but at the moment most school kids are still going to be served plates full of boring beige food.
Also it makes sense that councils will switch over to vegan/veggie catering for offical events. Its easier to organise since more people can eat the same thing regardless of things like religion. Articles like this seem to scaremonger that meat and dairy is being banned and that vegans are going to force feed you tofu. Its total nonsense.
Farming animals for food produces a lot of global emissions so we need to decrease the amount of meat we eat anyway and these small things will be helpful, especially as they are more widely adopted around the world.
They do realise that they arent going to get that meat money right?
Schools do not have the money to afford more than mystery meat factory processed and shipped over by the boat load.
If they do however want to sell to schools well they can happily impovish themselves by subcontracting under the major companies that hold all the catering contracts.
This seems quite disingenuous. Plant based meals can definitely be healthy and ‘decent’ and include the necessary vitamins and minerals
>At least nine councils serve only plant-based meals at their events
Council catered events. Not schools. The school thing is one meat-free day per week – hardly outrageous. This is a misleading headline for outrage-baiting (but Daily Mail, not surprising.)
The Daily Mail comments on that article..
Just fucking kill me now
Vegetarianism disguised as “we can’t afford meat anymore”
Glad school meals are moving on from frozen prepped packets and back to authentic vegetables – let’s not keep an old message going for new generations that meat is essential and milk is good for you! It’s all food isn’t it?
xD their truly grasping. Kids don’t eat enough vegetables this sounds like a good idea to me.
I notice it’s farmers that are furiously resisting, not dieticians or public health experts.
I wonder if losing the stealth subsidy provided through a system that enables farmers to foist their otherwise unsaleable offcuts and by-products onto a group that can’t protest is perhaps the motivating factor in their outrage.
Short of throwing meat at the kids I don’t see how they can
What kind of weird farmers can’t grow and sell plants?
Lets be honest, schools were never providing quality meat. At least there is a chance they might provide real leeks.
Can’t we just be sensible like in France and just provide good meals.
The shite served up in canteens in the UK is frankly embarrassing.
I remember having (celeriac) remoulade and carrot salad, roast chicken thigh and home made chips for one meal at the French eq. of nursery. It was all made at school and no question of kids dodging the salad.
What are the farmers going to do? Go to the schools, slaughter cows and sheep and force the schools to serve them?
Cheaper food so better ability in increase quality and potentially more vegetables being bought. Win win?
Good on them, sorry Reddit but farmers have been getting shafted by the government for decades.
Comments like ‘why can’t they just grow plants instead?’ shows the utter ignorance city dwellers have about farming and the countryside.
Those school dinners look incredibly sad.
And I’m fine with adults choosing to be vegan/vegetarian, but don’t force it on children who are still growing.
This is actually a good thing, and it can be a struggle to get kids to eat enough fruit and veg at the best of times. All the vitamins they need can be gotten without needing to eat meat every day.
It’s a bullshit Daily Fail/Heil article making out like meat and dairy are about to be banned. It’s coming from a nonsensical and frankly disingenuous position.
Stop taking what they print literally, it’s a right wing rag, a joke of a news outlet with zero credibility.
When I was a facilities manager for a primary school, the catering suppliers tried a vegetarian option. It was not a popular choice despite it being “healthy” and in the same league of nasty as everything else they dreamed up at £2.20 a head.
They served something like 13 meals out of nearly 22800 covers to pupils over a year.
It’s still an option on the menu but now you have to order it a week in advance. I don’t think anyone does though.
So if the farmers aren’t growing the plants, who is?
Bring back Turkey twizzlers i say. I used to love twizzler day
[Archive link](https://archive.ph/ACyGX) for those who want to expose themselves to the guff, without sending undeserved clicks to a vile propaganda rag.
The best thing about the article is the comments… Genuinely there’s one saying that this is a ploy to turn boys into girls and they’re “stealing our children” 😂
A quick scan of the Fail I saw it said the intention is one veggy meal a weak. Nothing wrong with that. Plus their parents can still serve them twizzlers all week for tea plus weekends.
Third comment down…
>David, Reading, about 7 hours ago
This is how they try to turn boys into girls. Keep them malnourished and weak to discourage masculinity and get them to transition. They will not claim our children.
How do you reach that conclusion?!!! Perhaps not enough brain food in his diet. Also by that logic what will happen to girls?!
Follow the money. They do not care about healthy eating, the environment or workery, just profit for farmers & meat/dairy industry.
With the smaller farmer squeezing themselves out of the market as they are unable to compete with the £1.00 chicken and import duty free titi beef imports from countries like the US and Oz with its 80 extra hormones which won’t be able to be sold in the EU etc GMO crops also you couldn’t sell on the EU and green belt land and environmental deregulation development ie look around Brighton green belt and the South Downs being sold for housing who’d have thought that?? giant USA style mile super farms discreetly opening I would hasten to add they shot themselves in the foot and no sympathy whatsoever for these muppets who’ve help drag themselves and country down.