Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Grant; Indoctrinating the kids…
Goldsmiths bans beef from university cafes to tackle climate crisis
Amy Walker
Tue 13 Aug 2019 00.51 AEST…
Goldsmiths, University of London, is also attempting to phase out single-use plastics and installing more panels to power its buildings in New Cross, as part of a move to become carbon neutral by 2025.
Beef products will no longer be available in the institution’s cafes and shops when the academic year begins in September, while an additional 10p levy will be added to the sale of bottled water and disposable plastic cups to discourage their use.
Prof Frances Corner, who took up the post of Goldsmiths’ warden this month, said the college would also switch to a completely clean energy supplier when its current contract ends and look into how all students could take curriculum options related to the climate crisis.
A psychology undergraduate, Isabelle Gosse, 20, said she thought the move was “a really good start to being more environmentally friendly”.
She added: “I think it’s a really positive move – Goldsmiths is recognising its own power and accountability in being more environmentally conscious.“Banning the sale of beef meat on campus, phasing out single-use plastics and the other pledges that the new warden has made highlights the current climate emergency that the world is facing.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/12/goldsmiths-bans-beef-from-university-cafes-to-tackle-climate-crisis
Having tried UK university beef patties I thought they had already banned beef – the meat content in most cases is a little lower than what people in the USA might be used to.
The UK has ongoing low level issues with CJD, a nasty prion disease caused by eating beef from infected cattle. Prion diseases are more resilient than viruses, they easily survive food processing and cooking. CJD has proven difficult to completely eradicate. The risk of catching CJD is very low, but not eating a few beef burgers could save someone’s life.
I doubt students who really want to eat beef will suffer – Goldsmiths is located in a part of London which is well served by a wide variety of fast food outlets, if you don’t mind the risk of an occasional mugging.
Problem solved! Thanks to their heroic actions, the climate will soon be in homeostasis, and we can go back to solving real problems.
Vote with your feet.
Eat outside.
The climate change problem has been solved so no one needs to spend any more money on it. The Climate Crisis as if it ever existed is over for ever and will never return.
How would this be monitored?
When the sun doesn’t shine (guaranteed for a long period at least once per day) and the wind doesn’t blow/blows too much, will they be monitoring their supplier to ensure that they throw the breakers so as to not use fossil-fueled power?
Most likely they are using Al’s reasoning that paying indulgences to those with RECs is the equivalent of not producing CO2 and then claim to be CO2 neutral.
Stickers saying: “-Flush twice, it’s a long way to the cafeteria !” on backorder.
What are the 2 toughest jobs in the world? Flushing,New York and Wheeling, West Virginia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-49330238
The attack on livestock farming is in full flight in New Zealand media. Once we did have an impartial subjective press. It is long gone. They are now knights on green horses saving us from our ignorant selves.
First step in a scientific study of a species’ impact on its environment? – establish a baseline. They claim to know the impact of NZ livestock methane production on global warming. Trollop. They don’t even know how much is being produced by marine seeps within our very large continental shelf. Its as large as the landmass of Australia.
Back to baseline. 1300 years ago there were no humans in NZ. 90% was covered in heavy rain forest – much of it growing in swamps and wetlands. Maori came and burnt 30 %. Europeans came and burnt another 30% and drained wetlands.
What is the methane baseline? We won’t discuss this. Apparently it is irrelevant.
Man and his beast has walked hand-in-hand for how many thousand years?
We, the realists, have no voice in NZ. We just get shouted down.
M
That does not necessary call for a happy end…
When the press preaches the virtues of famine bad things happen.
There was a company called “Gillette” once, which tried to virtue-signal its way to saving the planet, well, its stock price. Then began to go rapidly broke.
Competition = sell steak sandwiches
See who comes out on top.
Goldsmith’s college is entirely Arts and Sociology. No science there at all.
Alcohol and calculus don’t mix.Never drink and derive.
Yes they do.
Then you better where your seat belt,Mr.X.
I believe that there is a high correlation between those who are convinced in man made global warming and those who have a poor understanding of science. Any anomalies can be explained when you allow for the “snouts in the trough effect”
Look at it this way.
If you have a valuable resource i.e. meat, you don’t want to waste it on pointless consumers who wouldn’t know what to do with the additional protein…
We should thank Goldsmiths for its generous self sacrifice.
How does the current population of ungulates compare with the times of the massive North American and African herds before we slaughtered them and junked their habitat? I believe that there are fewer now than then so why are we not all dead from CO2, flatulence and general gas discharge?
Longing for a nice rare steak with a bottle of Shiraz!!
well I guess losing students might also lower running costs?
I wonder how many will transfer once the news of this and higher costs hits home?
As Dan Cody commented Alcohol and calculus don’t mix. Never drink and derive.
Cannot help but wonder what the warden is drinking. Obviously humans are low on the priority list.
The bit I don’t get. Prior to the expansion of Homo sapiens some 100,000 years ago wasn’t the world teeming with herbivores like bison, elephants, wildebeest, antelopes and others? Has humankind distorted an undisturbed ecosystem to such an extent? I doubt it.
P.S. Consider that sloths make up 90 % of the meat in the Equatorial rainforests.
So they have stopped climate change dead in its tracks so we do not have to give it another thought and can stop spending time and money on it. Of course we must understand that extreme weather events and sea level rise will continue unabated because they are part of the current climate.
Creutzfeldt Jakob’s disease was mainly affecting older male and female retirees and unemployed people in the UK who did live on dog food and cat food cans – because those are cheaper than food for people.
So they have intaken prions that do not maintain a spatial structure. Predators and pets such as dogs and cats do not need these spatial structures. But in humans, such a diet can lead to the loss of important bodily functions.
https://www.google.com/search?q=creutzfeldt+Jakob+desease+due+to+petfood&oq=creutzfeldt+Jakob+desease+due+to+petfood&aqs=chrome.