Edinburgh is now the first European capital to commit to axing meat from its menus in schools, hospitals and nursing homes.
Note, all places where those confined within them often can't leave. How brave.
A council report said: 'Overall, the science is clear: Meat and dairy consumption must reduce to achieve climate targets.'
Then ban the sale of milk and meat in Scotland. If you can, without pitchforks and flaming torches featuring in your future.
But you know you can't. So you'll pick on those who can't fight back.
The move comes days before Burns Night – the centrepiece of which is haggis, traditionally made from a sheep's liver, lungs, heart and stomach.
Offal, in other words. Maybe this year they could give the sheep a rest and make it out of the innards of a bureaucrat?
"Maybe this year they could give the sheep a rest and make it out of the innards of a bureaucrat?"
ReplyDeleteThat would be rotten.
It would be really offal.
DeleteI've got me coat....... :)
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DeleteJust like the lady tenant of a housing association that was refused a wood burner because it affected her housing association's "commitment to Net Zero", this is another way they'll try and force the climate death cult upon all of us. Not directly, but by removing options and services from us "for our own good" or the good of the planet. I predict it won't be long before assisted suicide being granted in the UK so that a bunch of us plebs can off ourselves and reduce the burden on the planet.
ReplyDeleteNotice one very notable omission from the list of government owned/run facilities?
ReplyDeleteYep, that's right (just like the blanket smoking ban that, unaccountably, didn't include Parliament), they aren't (predictably) removing it from the tax-payer subsidised fine-dining of the Scottish politicians.
You and yours will be forced to subsist on soy (or whatever else they decide to 'slip' in the pot) but they will continue with their steaks, foie gras and duck a l'orange (and £100+ bottles of plonk of course).
They really should just change the titles of Scottish politicians to Commissar, and the Parliament to the Politburo.
In 1696 England introduced the 'Window Tax'. That didn't go down well either. But it lasted until 1851 !!!
ReplyDeleteA lot depends on exactly what form this ‘plant-based’ food takes. While it’s relatively easy to identify the ingredients of a simple traditional meat-based dish or a vegetable stew, meat substitutes and more complex vegan concoctions often carry a list of ingredients evoking the chemistry lab rather than the kitchen, not to mention the frequent use of gluten and nut proteins.
ReplyDeleteGiven the number of serious intolerances and allergies out there, to serve such things en masse in hospitals, schools and nursing homes would surely increase the risk of harming those unable, or not given the opportunity, to read labels and warnings.
Have we reached the point, I wonder, where this would be regarded by the authorities as unfortunate but inevitable in advancing towards the greater good?
One thing to watch out for in future is 'insect derived protein'!
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