Mrs Hanbury’s and Ms Amao’s Year 9  Food groups had the pleasure of a visit from an education speaker, Lynne Snowden from Animal Aid last week to help consolidate the topic of Vegetarian and vegan this week.

As of early 2024, approximately 2.5 million UK adults (4.7%) follow a vegan diet—a jump of +1.1 million since 2023 (VIVA.ORG)

Did you know that a meat eater will eat on average 4,500 fish, 80 turkeys and 30 sheep in their lifetime!

Animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions, more than the combined exhaust from all transportation.

85% of the meat eaten from the UK is produced in a factory farm

A dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces the same amount of waste as a city of 411,000 people.

These are just the environmental issues we have been looking at. We hope the meat we eat has been reared and transported in humane conditions but the Food Standard Agency reported from undercover footage from Devon showed farrowing crates confining sows over 90% of the time, triggering renewed calls to ban the practice affecting ~200,000 sows annually theguardian.com.

The Year 9’s have been cooking some beautiful vegan dishes this week including spring rolls and samosas!