Plans for NHS meals to be meat free
Plans for NHS meals to be meat free
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oldbanger

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4,328 posts

267 months

Monday 26th January 2009
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OK it is the Daily Wail, but I thought it was worth flagging up. Adequate protein intake is needed for good healing, so this proposal isn't going to be very helpful to sick people.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127527/Me...

Patients could be forced to go without meat in hospitals under controversial new NHS plans to cut carbon emissions.

The plan to offer patients meat-free menus is part of a major new 'green' strategy to be announced tomorrow.

... According to some experts, eating meat contributes towards global warming because of the chemicals sprayed on feed crops and the methane emitted by cattle and sheep.

IforB

9,840 posts

258 months

Monday 26th January 2009
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Oh good god, you actually believe the daily mail................

The plans are not to ban or stop meat, but to reduce the amount that they use. A very different thing from the wail's take on it.

Utter garbage reporting as ever from the doyen of complete ar*e that is the daily mail.

Mannginger

10,255 posts

286 months

Monday 26th January 2009
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Do the words "Plan to offer" not mean anything in their reporting? Clearly not!

That paper needs to think long and hard about how many people they put in hospital in the first place due to increased blood pressure!

anonymous-user

83 months

Monday 26th January 2009
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Having eaten hospital food several times in my life, I seriously doubt that they'd be cutting much protein out of patients diets by removing all of the "meat"...

elster

17,517 posts

239 months

Monday 26th January 2009
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Symbolica said:
Having eaten hospital food several times in my life, I seriously doubt that they'd be cutting much protein out of patients diets by removing all of the "meat"...
Having eaten hospital food several times over the past few years. I have never once had reason to complain. Sunday Roast is always the best.

It is not quite the smoked salmon and steak of private hospitals, but it is good.

bimsb6

8,746 posts

250 months

Monday 26th January 2009
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it's already flavour free so quite possible .

Ganglandboss

8,545 posts

232 months