The evidence that children don’t want to eat animals is mounting. A new study by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Oxford has found that children make fewer moral distinctions between different species and that speciesism is learned during adolescence.

ProVeg UK’s School Plates programme does exactly that - making school food more sustainable by swapping carbon-intensive meals with nutritious meat-free and plant-based alternatives. ProVeg UK’s Jimmy Pierson discusses the plant-based school food revolution in his guest blog to celebrate International School Meals Day.

Last year, Enfield Council became the first local authority in the UK to pledge to serve only vegan and vegetarian foods at council events in a bid to address the climate emergency. Inspired and motivated by the September 2020 rebellion, Animal Rebellion asked itself a question: what if the success of Enfield could be replicated elsewhere? And so the seeds of the plant-based schools campaign were sown.

Lyon’s city council has moved to take animal flesh off school menus, sparking a debate that touches on many issues ranging from the political to the environmental and of course the ethical. We take a look at the arguments and other examples of moves by schools to switch to more sustainable mealtimes.