Our work intranet has headline news on the homepage - usually all-staff messages from HR, or relevant news from the official PR people. There is a group of sustainability champions who use the space to promote messages about recycling etc. Today one of them has posted the following:
"As a Sustainability Champion [sic] we have requested dairy free milk to be put in fridges and from today they have been added (Yay!). There are many of us throughout the [workplace] who cannot eat dairy for one reason or another so this is for all of you!
For those of you who aren’t dairy free, there are many benefits of switching and not only sustainable benefits, many great health benefits.
Here are the top reasons for their choice to go dairy free:
• Clear skin
• Cancer prevention
• Weight loss
• Preventing milk allergy and sensitivity reactions
• Healthy digestion
• Stronger bones
• Milk production has been shown to have a substantial footprint on air quality
Read more here: godairyfree.org
So why not try it and see how you feel? Even switching a few days a week makes a huge difference. Next time you’re going to the kitchen to make your lovely tea or coffee, have a try and let us know how you feel."
I have no problem at all with the first paragraph. But surely the rest is unsubstantiated propaganda, and it's inappropriate for a responsible employer to allow their corporate mouthpiece to be used for promoting restricted diets to people who don't need them?