Comment on Compulsory Meat In Schools Should Be Scrapped, Says Dale Vince
Naich@lemmings.world 3 days agoPersonal gain in the case of green lobbying is a subset of universal gain. Exactly the same as Vince’s case. It doesn’t follow the he will profit more than anyone else, as anyone else can supply meat-free food too.
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Except you say that there is universal gain from allowing dishes to not contain meat. When there is not, if it isn’t even worse. So now the lowest bidder will simply give you a less nutritious meal because they care about money not the students. And this is exactly why a law like this existed. So that a catering company won’t just feed people potatoes mixed with potatoes 100% of the time.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Not you’re resorting to misinformation as the whole foods plant-based is healthier.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11434797
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662288/
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Cool. Do you trust a random catering company to get it right for millions of students? To maintain the exact diet that’s needed to get every nutrient, at a kitchen that hires random cooks and asks them to make food for 200 people at a time?
In reality, cooking a meat based meal is easy, fast and scalable. Cooking a plant-based one and only doing that isn’t. There is a reason why laws exist - and this one exists because they were cheapening out and serving substandard meals. So they made it mandatory to at least contain some protein in the form of meat.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Nah the whole foods plant-based diet meals will be 30% cheaper
ox.ac.uk/…/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-…
Naich@lemmings.world 3 days ago
Meat is only cheap because of the subsidies provided to the industry. It’s expensive in environmental terms too.
Naich@lemmings.world 3 days ago
Except that the law says the meals have to be nutritious to a set level. So no, they can’t do that.