GB News presenter Bev Turner questioned the move from Cambridge University students to vote in favour of a plant-based menu.
The Cambridge students’ union voted to support a transition to a solely vegan menu across its catering services.
The group’s motion was backed by 72 per cent of non-abstaining student representatives and calls for the change in response to “climate and biodiversity crises”.
This morning, Bev Turner said the move is likely an example of how the minority can be “tyrannical”.
She stated: “This is the thing, how many of those students who voted for veganism voted on the menu, thinking ‘meat is a moral issue, I’m going to be judged if I don’t go along with the majority’.
“So it’s the tyranny of the minority, who will be iron deficient, weak and won’t have enough vitamin D in their bodies.”
Lawyer Andrew Eborn commented on the move, saying beef and lamb had already been off the menu since 2016, to which Bev Turner commented: “well, they’re idiots.”
The move does not guarantee that Cambridge’s catering services will go completely vegan, as that decision is taken by the university.
Bev Turner is critical of the move to introduce a fully vegan menu
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It also does not apply to the university’s 31 colleges, despite the campaign claiming it provided “an extremely strong mandate for colleges to begin transitioning to 100 per cent plant-based menus”.
The move came after lobbying from Cambridge’s Plant-Based Universities campaign, which is a nationwide initiatives of students who are pushing for their universities and student unions to adopt fully plant-based catering.
Speaking on the vote, a University of Cambridge spokesperson said: “The University of Cambridge removed ruminant meat from the menu in all university catering service cafes in 2016 and has a sustainable food policy which also seeks to actively promote plant based option, remove unsustainable fish from the menu and reduce food waste.
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“We always welcome suggestions from students and staff.”
Speaking on GB News, Amy Nickell said there are “plenty of statistics to suggest that plant-based people are fitter and healthier than many meat eaters.”
In a fiery exchange, Bev Turner rebuked the point, describing it as “rubbish”.
Nickell added that the diet: “Shown to slow prostate cancer progression by 52 per cent”.
In response, Turner stated: “That’s only one form of cancer”.