Food orders for work related events are to be vegan and vegetarian only

I found it hilarious! It weren't any "weird" foods, no tofu or even quinoa. It was mainly cheese and egg based. No fake meats. If there was a lump of ham on the table, they would have happily eaten all the vegetarian options there. Apparently we shouldn't force our politics on others - it was OUR wedding FFS!

Vegan cheese is another one everyone gets worked up about, people behaving like cheddar is some kind of pure health food but a cheese spread made from almonds is poison.

I can understand people getting worked up about vegan cheese. I have quite a few friends who are vegan and most of them avoid it on the grounds that it’s largely horrible.

Yes I’m always surprised that people jump to UPF.
Vegan food is essentially vegetables, fruit, legumes, grains… most whole foods.

The new “vegan food” is supplementary/optional on top of that and actually very similar to heavily processed non vegan food. UPF is a food issue, not a vegan food issue.

People get very cross about a vegan sausage but we all know meat sausages are horrendous for health, animals and environment.
Vegan cheese is another one everyone gets worked up about, people behaving like cheddar is some kind of pure health food but a cheese spread made from almonds is poison.

Lentils

i have a high calorie diet and that’s a good way.

Exactly they eat silage. Where silage is grown we could grow food for humans instead of food for sheep which will only turn 10% of those calories into lamb.

Eating meat is not good for carbon footprint though so their reasoning is actually spot on

marchintospring
I'm sure if Colin from Accounts is doing some kind of manly ultra- paleo all meat diet, then your average corporate buffet wouldn't have much for him. You don't see many paleolithic cave drawings of sausage rolls, after all.

I’m amazed that so many grown adults can’t seem to countenance not eating meat or fish for the odd meal.

Corporate catering doesn’t cater for fussy eaters (as opposed to those with allergies, who should of course be catered for) at the best of times, so surely if you have such a restricted diet that you won’t eat anything vegetarian or vegan you’d bring your own stuff anyway?

My sheep eat grass and silage

Some people only eat meat.
It's a super food. You can survive very well on just a beef cow but you need a wide range of plants to stay healthy.
Also you can rear animals in this country pretty easily whereas veg needs to be seasonal. And livestock farming promoted biodiversity. Veg is grown in monocultures. You can't have insects and animals eating your business.

Yet more pathetic virtue signalling.

Found this on Google.

Livestock farming produces from 20% to 50% of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Shrink That Footprint's chart shows that a meat lover has the highest carbon footprint at 3.3 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. A vegan diet has the lowest carbon footprint at just 1.5 tons CO2e (Carbon Dioxide Equivalent)

Big Lentil

And it's not only lunch buffets. Did you not realise that most biscuits at meetings are vegetarian, and some are EVEN VEGAN 😱

Obviously this means that you can't eat them if you're a meat eater.

The woke mob are even coming for our custard creams!!!!!

Sounds like virtue-signalling stupidity.

Mrs Bennett
In a way I understand that. There are loads and loads of adverts on TV at the moment for fake meat products, so I guess people who don't know many veggies/ vegans might jump to the conclusion that it's what we actually eat, rather than what they're desperately trying to sell us. You don't see many ads for eg pulses- Big Lentil hasn't got much of a marketing budget 😆

You & I know this, I hope the company management do as well.

It's interesting how many people associate vegan food with UPF. I assume that this is because of the recent trend towards veganism and the growth in fake meat products.

I'm not a vegan but I have had lots of wonderful vegan food over the years that has been made with lovely, fresh, good quality ingredients. It doesn't have to be fake burgers!!

Omg!!
"If a poor sad animal hasn't suffered and died for this meal then I'm NOT eating it!"

People are insane. If the live animals were lined up on the buffet table and people had to kill them themselves you can bet it would be a different story.

I'd be concerned about the unnatural products often found in vegan foods.

I'd hope they would stick to non-UPF as well.

@Wonderfulstuff I actually love carrot and hummus sandwiches. Nasty to have sultanas though.

I also note that when I cook meat and fish at home, or go to a restaurant, these meals are usually also full of lovely fresh ingredients including plenty of veg. There's a lot of falacy on this thread (and generally) around this issue.

My best friend's dietary requirement often gets lumped in with the vegans for convenience and while she doesn't mind this for individual meals, she does stress for an overnight event or longer that she expects a balance of the foods and foodgroups that she eats, because she was getting things that didn't meet her nutritional needs over a day or more.

A PP said "vegan dishes are full of lovely fresh ingredients", well this is sometimes true and sometimes not; for example a dry salty 'cheeze' sandwich, even if it's got a bit of salad in it, is definitely no more healthy than anything else on offer and probably less so.

The vegan sandwich offering by our work caterers is 'carrot, sultana and hummus'... the only good thing is that it unites everyone in agreement that it is disgusting.

So grateful to be a Coeliac and used to bringing lunchbox everywhere.

Every single type of farming harms animals.