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Green energy provider Ecotricity has made the staff canteen in its headquarters in Stroud, Gloucestershire, fully plant-based. The change is part of the company’s effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect nature, and encourage healthy eating.
Dale Vince, who founded the company, described the plant-based menu as “a first” for a UK workplace. He said in a statement that it “proves that there’s another way to do things.” Forest Green Rovers, the football team owned by Vince, also serves 100 percent plant-based food to players, fans, and staff at its games.
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“Plant-based eating can be affordable, healthy, tasty, and good for the planet,” Vince said. “The future is plant-based, and the sooner we get there, the better for us all.” He has previously called for compulsory meat and dairy in school meals to be scrapped, a tax on meat, and for packets of bacon to carry cigarette-style warnings due to its links to cancer.
Plant-based canteens
Other companies and institutions have begun to shift towards serving more plant-based food. In 2023, LinkeIn announced its San Fransisco headquarters had shifted to a 65 percent plant-based menu and plant-based milk as the default over cow’s milk.
Student unions at several universities in the UK and Europe, including Cambridge, Stirling, and Graz in Austria, have voted for entirely plant-based catering at union events. A number of UK councils have also voted to provide only plant-based food at council events.
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