• Che Banana@lemmy.ml
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    I have been to 100% vegan campuses (as a visiting chef for special events) and let me tell you, the Acadmics may want this but the students DO NOT. I say this with love (I have a bbq joint with many, many vegan options because all are welcome), and the stories I encountered were amazing on the creativity the students would do to get meats. Some students didn’t even realize the campus was vegan (7th day adventist) and met with the chef to complain months after the start of classes not knowing rhe “bacon” wasn’t just “weird tasting” it wasn’t bacon.

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      Berlin has one or two vegan university canteens I think and they’re not unpopular.

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          That is why students choose to have their campus vegan because plant based food is the most inclusive.

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            This statement is categorically incorrect, and it is obvious you have never worked with a diverse student body. I have, with over 7 years experience in my own account and working with other schools. Students are at best contrarian to rules, at worst absolutely obstinate trolls. Let me spell this out: excluding animal protein is not inclusive.

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              Anecdotal evidence is irrelevant when I have already posted plenty of examples where students choose to fight and vote for a plant based cafeteria. Its very simple: everyone can eat plants, nobody needs animal based products. With a limited numbers of menus plant based food is the most inclusive. Special taste preferences can be accommodated at home.

              E: https://feddit.de/comment/2695679

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                "exclusion of one group is more inclusive " "anecdotal evidence is irrelevant compared to my cherry picked articles "

                lol just because you made a word salad doesn’t make your vegan point

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      Some students didn’t even realize the campus was vegan (7th day adventist) and met with the chef to complain months after the start of classes not knowing rhe “bacon” wasn’t just “weird tasting” it wasn’t bacon.

      With all due respect, this doesn’t happen in Germany.

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          The blatant mislabelling doesn’t occur here, I think. A plant-based bacon might be called “vegan bacon”, but not just bacon.