Those who have such prejudices are not mature enough…

regards and good night, Venus

“Stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” French minister says after major city removes meat from school lunches
French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie has argued against injecting “ideology” into school lunches after the city of Lyon removed the meat from the menus.

Local officials said it would help them follow Covid-19 protocols.

“Let’s stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” Denormandie tweeted on Sunday.

“Let’s just give them what they need to grow well. Meat is part of it,” he wrote, adding that he had asked the region’s perfect, a state-appointed official, to overrule the move.

Officials in Lyon, France’s third-largest city, said schools would have a meat-free menu starting on Monday.

They argued that the change would help to “streamline” the work of cafeterias while they followed the requirements on social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Stephanie Leger, the city’s top education official, told AFP the new menu “will allow us to speed up the service and, thus, allow us to cater to all children.”

“To match the tastes of the largest number [of students], we have decided to remove meat,” Leger said. She added that the menu could not be considered vegan because the cafeterias would continue to serve fish and eggs, and that meat would return once the “sanitary situation allows it.”

Nevertheless, the idea to exclude meat from school lunches immediately caused a backlash from right-wing politicians. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin labeled it an “unacceptable insult to French farmers and butchers.” (!!!)

“We can see that the moralizing and elitist policy of the Greens excludes the popular classes. Many children often only get to eat meat at the school canteen,” he tweeted, calling it a “scandalous ideology.” (!!!)

Lyon Mayor Gregory Doucet, a member of the Green Party, responded that the meat-free menu was a “one-time” measure introduced for sanitary reasons. He tweeted on Sunday that the city authorities were “guaranteeing a balanced meal for all school students.”

Doucet also pointed out that the government had not complained when his predecessor, from President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party, “introduced exactly the same measure during the first wave” of the pandemic.

https://www.rt.com/news/516259-france-school-lunches-meat/

And I mean...For God’s sake, Monsieur Denormandie! those are adventurous arguments that you bring!
Animal fats are the leading cause of diabetes, obesity, and heart attacks. More and more children are suffering from it!
And do you recommend that?
Is it really an “extreme ideology” for you to refuse to actively participate in an ecological catastrophe?
When one refuses to ignore the barely comprehensible suffering of pigs, chickens, and cattle, etc.?

You should know that veganism is a very promising way to soon be able to feed 10 billion people adequately without completely destroying the earth.
If you are interested in saving our planet, of course.
To dismiss that as “scandalous ideology” is cheap, belittling, and simply idiotic!

And by the way: Meat eaters are really militant, there are a lot more of them than militant vegans, and they are also much more aggressive: because they have no argument against non-meat eaters, except that they want to support their “French farmers and butchers”!

My best regards to all, Venus

Update from German: https://www.instagram.com/p/CLovdoYiU-1/?igshid=1uez95eiy3m84-(Video)

On Monday, a number of farmers in #Lyon demonstrated against the abolition of #meat dishes in the city’s school canteens. #Farmers drove their tractors through the streets of Lyon, dumping old tires and manure in front of the # government building to express their anger.

In protest, they set up a mini-farm with cows and goats on the square in front of the town hall.
“We are now in front of the town hall because they cannot enforce their ideas by force, especially the ban on meat in schools, allegedly because of the #corona virus,” said one farmer.

YES!! That’s how the farmers are, they always complain.
The farmers are also protesting against the anesthesia during piglet castration, they are jointly responsible for the groundwater contamination, the death of insects, and the resistance to antibiotics.
They keep thousands of animals in stables, crowded together, that have to live on their shit, without movement, employment, or daylight.

The farmers think it is completely okay to put pigs in cages for 4 months in which they cannot turn around, mothers take their children away, kill surplus piglets and when they have exploited cows enough, they let them kill the last money close.
The farmers claim that they do not torture their animals, but if I am not an animal torturer, then I do not use them for my economic interests either.

Well, the “farmers” are not forced into their profession and they could just as easily work as accountants, postmen, hairdressers, bakers, waiters, etc.
So yes! obviously they enjoy it. Or at least they don’t find it cruel enough to relax and maybe change jobs.

Venus

21 NGOs call for rejection of “dairy ban” that would directly contradict EU Farm to Fork Strategy

19 February 2021

Today, Eurogroup for Animals joins forces with 20 animal welfare, environmental and consumer NGOs to call on the European Commission and EU member states to reject proposed restrictions on plant-based dairy. These plans could ban essential allergen information, milk cartons and product images and directly contradict the Farm to Fork Strategy and undermine the Paris agreement targets.

In a joint letter coordinated by the Good Food Institute Europe and ProVeg International, the NGOs argue that the plans, in a proposed amendment to the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), would directly contradict an EU pledge to promote more plant-based diets as part of its Farm to Fork food sustainability strategy. The proposals could also deprive consumers of essential allergen information and cause confusion by forcing companies to use “unnatural linguistic contortions” to describe their products.

Among the 21 signatories are also Eurogroup for Animals’ members Compassion in World Farming, Essere Animali and World Animal Protection. 

Far from reinstating existing laws, by banning any “direct or indirect use” or “evocation” of dairy products, Amendment 171 would introduce new restrictions preventing plant-based dairy products from:

• Providing essential health and allergen information such as “lactose-free alternative to dairy milk”.
• Using packaging that is similar to those used for dairy products, such as cartons.
• Using images of the product being poured at a breakfast table, or white foam swirling in a cappuccino.
• Informing consumers about the climate impact of foods, such as by comparing the carbon footprint of plant-based and conventional dairy.
• Using helpful descriptors such as “creamy” or “buttery”.

Last October, a majority of Members of the European Parliament voted in favour of the proposed restrictions – but they remain subject to negotiations with the European Commission and EU member states at trilogues expected in March.

The letter also calls on the European Commission and member states to oppose Amendment 72 – a vaguely-worded proposal that would introduce significant legal uncertainty that could jeopardise the labelling of plant-based foods in the future. 

The signatories warn that these new restrictions go significantly further than existing EU law, which already bans plant-based dairy products from using terms like “milk” and “cheese”.

They argue that encouraging the broader uptake of plant-based diets is key to achieving the EU’s emissions targets, reducing land and water use, and preventing further destruction of global biodiversity. 

Agriculture is responsible for 10.3% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 70% of those come from the animal sector. A recent study by the University of Oxford found that, without reducing the world’s reliance on animal agriculture, it will be impossible to meet the Paris climate agreement.

“When all the animals that have suffered in vain
would scream at the same moment
an incredible catastrophe would devastate the world
and the few surviving people would become deaf
and wander around in madness. “
(unknown)

regards and good night, Venus

Please; No more ‘I would but …..’ – here are some Vegan recipes that even non cooks can cook !

Try some

Regards Mark

Easy Vegan Recipes for People Who Can’t Cook | The Stingy Vegan

…… and if you can cook a bit:

Favorite Vegan Family Dinners: 40 Recipes – Emilie Eats

WAV Comment – Why ? – are so called ‘pet owners’ not capable of giving protection to ‘their’ animals when the need arises such as this ?

Pets are dying in Texas freeze as owners dump them outdoors in sub-zero temperatures

Below-freezing temperatures have brought on extraordinary misery for millions

 

Pets dying in Texas freeze as owners dump them in sub-zero temperatures | The Independent

Animals have been hit hard as winter storms continued to wreak havoc across the US and care groups scrambled to respond to calls of abandoned pets in brutal below-freezing temperatures.

Authorities across Houston, Texas, along with investigators, have been responding to a number of calls from residents regarding pet dogs and cats struggling on the streets for days without food and frozen water bowls after they were believed to have been left there by owners.

A Texas dog owner is facing charges after eight dogs were found abandoned outside in freezing temperatures. The Houston Humane Society said the dogs were “severely malnourished” and one of the dogs had a broken jaw.

In another incident, six dogs were found abandoned by a local auto body shop in Texas, including one that had died.

Millions of people in the state are reeling under severe winter storms that has led to frigid temperatures, power outages, water shortage and pipe burst at homes. Officials have issued warnings against leaving dogs outside unattended.

Harris County Sheriff, Ed Gonzalez, warned that it is illegal to leave a pet outside and unattended by use of a restraint that unreasonably limits the dog’s movement.

“Texas law requires pets to be brought inside during severe weather. It is illegal to restrain your dog under these conditions. Members of a countywide Animal Cruelty Task Force stand ready to respond,” Mr Gonzalez said.

Extraordinary scenes have been witnessed across the state, with birds found frozen to death on trees, frozen fish tanks and thousands of stranded sea turtles as temperature dipped below -18C on Monday and a second winter blast hammered cities on Wednesday.

The death toll climbed to 24 across the nation in winter storm-related incidents, including a grandmother and three children who died in Sugar Land, Texas, after they accidentally set their home on fire in an effort to stay warm.

A dozen animals, including chimpanzees and monkeys, froze to death at a Texas animal sanctuary after it lost power and staff scrabbled to use generators to keep animals warm.

Authorities in the US faced criticism for poor management as the situation continues to worsen with experts demanding an investigation to identify problems for future.

Regards Mark