Goldsmiths College will become the first beef-free campus in Britain at the start of its autumn term.
at a university in London as a part of an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, and to generally be more environmentally conscious.Monday that it will become the first beef-free campus in Britain at the start of its autumn term. It will also introduce a 10 pence levy on plastic water bottles and single-use plastic cups.plans to install more solar panels, switch to a 100 percent clean energy supplier as soon as possible and to invest more in its green allotments .
A picture shows the front of the Students Union at Goldsmiths, University of London, in London on August 13, 2019. - Students at London's Goldsmiths will no longer be munching on canteen staples such as burgers and chilli after the prestigious university announced it would ban all beef products to fight climate change. , as cows produce more methane and require more land and water than other livestock.
She continued,"Though I have only just arrived at Goldsmiths, it is immediately obvious that our staff and students care passionately about the future of our environment and that they are determined to help deliver the step change we need to cut our carbon footprint drastically and as quickly as possible."
The banning of beef, however, will probably be the most controversial move. The news of the announcement began to spread quickly on social media on Tuesday. Jason Hickel, a senior lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths, urged other universities to follow suit."There's no reason you can't win similar changes at your own institution, be it a university, school, hospital, church, company or whatever," heThere's no reason you can't win similar changes at your own institution - be it a university, school, hospital, church, company, or whatever. People are ready to mobilize around rapid change. Now is the time.
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