{"id":392,"date":"2022-02-15T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/defaultveg\/?p=392"},"modified":"2022-02-15T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T22:04:04","slug":"uk-students-call-for-plant-based-meals-at-universities-to-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/defaultveg\/2022\/02\/15\/uk-students-call-for-plant-based-meals-at-universities-to-fight-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Students Call for Plant-Based Meals at Universities to Fight Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
Z. Zane McNeill,\u00a0Sentient Media<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>February 10, 2022<\/div>\n
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A\u00a0student-led outreach campaign supported by the climate and animal justice group Animal Rebellion has mobilized hundreds of students at over 20 UK universities. The students are calling for their universities to drop animal products from their catering menus before the 2023-24 academic year.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Student activist Vaania Kapoor Achuthan<\/a>, 19, from University College London says that in order to ensure a sustainable future, major institutions like colleges and universities have a responsibility to move \u201ctowards 100% just and sustainable plant-based catering.\u201d Achuthan and other students argue that universities choosing to include animal products in their cafeterias not only illustrates complicity in the climate crisis, but also makes it more difficult for them to reach their sustainability goals.<\/p>\n

Despite a 2006 United Nations report<\/a> that found that animal agriculture emitted more greenhouse emissions than all of the transportation sector combined, progress mitigating the impact of animal agriculture on climate change has been slow, and the situation has grown more dire. Animal agriculture currently contributes at least 37 percent<\/a> of all greenhouse gas emissions, although estimates vary, is responsible for 65 percent of anthropogenic nitrous oxide emissions<\/a>, and is the leading cause of deforestation around the world. Livestock emissions also account for 32 percent of human-caused methane emissions<\/a>, which account for 30 percent of global warming to date. The environmental justice group CimateNexus<\/a> reports that greenhouse gasses could be cut in half by the adoption of a plant-based diet, which is why these students are lobbying their universities to drop meat from their menus.<\/p>\n

[… Read more at\u00a0Sentient Media<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

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Z. Zane McNeill,\u00a0Sentient Media,\u00a0February 10, 2022 A\u00a0student-led outreach campaign supported by the climate and animal justice group Animal Rebellion has mobilized hundreds of students at over 20 UK universities. The students are calling for their universities to drop animal products from their catering menus before the 2023-24 academic year.\u00a0 Student activist Vaania Kapoor Achuthan, 19, … <\/p>\n

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