Ham Sandwiches to be
Banned in Schools and Hospitals
Embargoed until April
1st
In an uncharacteristic liberal style move the Govt has been
in secret talks to ban ham, burgers, sausages and other processed meats in NHS hospitals
and schools by 1st April 2018.
In a 9th hour move the EU managed to sneak this new vegan law into the statute books before article 50 was invoked this week by PM Theresa May and thus automatically uploaded into our statute books via The Great Repeal Bill
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| New EU Vegan Rules on Meal Deals April 1st |
Until relatively recently ingredients such as testicles,
rectum and udder were allowed in school sausages but regulations have been
tightened up.
A typical recipe for school/hospital sausages ("pork
product" made "down to a price" to win a local authority
contract - Guardian May 2003) now looks something like this;
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50% "meat", of which 30% is pork fat
with a bit of jowl
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20% mechanically recovered chicken meat
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17% water
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30% rusk and soya
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soya concentrate
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hydrolysed protein
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modified flour, dried onion, sugar, dextrose,
phosphates, preservative E221 sodium sulphite, flavour enhancer, spices, garlic
flavouring, antioxidant E300 (ascorbic acid), colouring E128 (red 2G). Casings:
made from collagen from cow hide
In the light of the World Health Organisation’s re
categorisation of processed meat products (Risk: Highest - Processed meat causes cancer IARC. WHO. BBC
Oct 2015) and perhaps fearing resultant legal action from parents and school governors,
heads of education and health departments have been discussing banning
processed meat products.
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| Ham Sandwiches become Vegan Hahm Sandwiches from 1st April |
The proposed plan is to replace all processed meats with like
sounding plant based vegan products reveals junior health minister Ms Simmo Lay
Leading Nutritionist Dr Bin MaFoud says “In reality most of
any beneficial nutrients in typical local authority purchased ‘processed meat products’
comes from soya anyway so a move to plant based alternatives makes sense”
“The food industry is now awash with very realistic
processed meat alternatives that have same or better taste, texture and protein
content than existing products. Patients and schoolchildren probably wouldn’t even
realise they are being given plant based alternatives.”
“Menus would need to be re written with just omitting or
adding one letter for trade description reasons so thus sausage becomes sossage,
chicken becomes chikken, mince and burgers stays the same as does Hot Dog, ham
becomes hahm and chorizo becomes Chorriso” Says professor of food psychology
Professor Joe King
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| Many sandwich providers are ahead of the game already offering Vegan options |
School Packed lunches will not escape in case children swap food
and schools risk being held responsible for future cancer risk. Ham sandwiches
will join the school ban on chocolate and crisps that already exists in schools along
with salami, sausages, bacon, beefburgers and hamburgers, chicken nuggets and
pepperami.
Ofsted will have the policing of new health standards in
schools added to their list of responsibilities but it is not yet clear who will
police the standards of food in hospitals as currently hospitals don’t appear
to have many standards for the quality of food.
Karin
Ridgers Founder of VeggieVison TV adds, “Luckily there is a plant based
version of everything nowadays so no one need miss out on taste and
texture, the animals and planet will thank you and you could live longer too.”
Date: April 1st
