Considering the quality of the meat and dairy served in University dining halls, I wouldn't disagree much here.
It tends to be from factory farms (not family farms, or small holders) where they pump the animals full of hormones and antibiotics, feed them garbage (literally) and God only knows what. Then they have a crusade against raw milk and raw milk products like yogurt and cheese. If that's not enough, they pump the packaged meats full of brine and saline and preservatives and all sorts of things in order to increase the weight (since that's how it's sold).
The worst thing is that the factory farmed crap is often more expensive than quality meats and dairy from family owned farms and such. There are so many middlemen that need to be paid on factory farms, and of course kickbacks to the administrators that choose where to buy their products. That drives up the cost by quite a bit.
I'm not saying that meat and dairy should be banned anywhere. Just that I agree with the assessment that the quality of meat and dairy there is
"akin to serving cigarettes at a lung cancer conference."
Let them have the choice to consume the junk that is served there. Just like they have the choice to buy sodas and pound Red Bull and vape and smoke and make other bad choices.
I was primarily griping about the state of farming in the US, where huge conglomerates are buying up family farms and the quality of meats and dairy from them is just abysmal.
Considering the quality of the meat and dairy served in University dining halls, I wouldn't disagree much here.
It tends to be from factory farms (not family farms, or small holders) where they pump the animals full of hormones and antibiotics, feed them garbage (literally) and God only knows what. Then they have a crusade against raw milk and raw milk products like yogurt and cheese. If that's not enough, they pump the packaged meats full of brine and saline and preservatives and all sorts of things in order to increase the weight (since that's how it's sold).
The worst thing is that the factory farmed crap is often more expensive than quality meats and dairy from family owned farms and such. There are so many middlemen that need to be paid on factory farms, and of course kickbacks to the administrators that choose where to buy their products. That drives up the cost by quite a bit.
But at least give people choices though, even if it's full of craps.
I'm not saying that meat and dairy should be banned anywhere. Just that I agree with the assessment that the quality of meat and dairy there is "akin to serving cigarettes at a lung cancer conference."
Let them have the choice to consume the junk that is served there. Just like they have the choice to buy sodas and pound Red Bull and vape and smoke and make other bad choices.
I was primarily griping about the state of farming in the US, where huge conglomerates are buying up family farms and the quality of meats and dairy from them is just abysmal.