A school in Sweden has imposed vegetarianism on all of its students in a supposed attempt to help combat climate change.
The radical policy has been implemented at the Gitarren Preschool in Umeå and represents the first attempt by a municipal school to eliminate meat on the food menus. All meals served at the preschool will be entirely meatless, and students will not be given the choice to opt-out of the program, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
When the program begins in about two weeks, breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be entirely vegetarian, and those who would like to order meat will not be able to. No exceptions will be made.
Teachers claim that the school has only received positive feedback from parents and children.
Markus Sandström, a teacher at Gitarren Preschool, says: “There have only been positive reactions and many are grateful.”
“We believe and hope that this can become permanent. So this is the idea, but it felt a bit drastic to go all out with it right away. We must evaluate properly first,” Sandström added.
The school has hired a dietician to oversee the rollout of the new menu and to make sure all the children, aged between one and six, are receiving adequate nutrition from the meatless diet.
Despite claiming that all reactions to the new program have so far been positive, Sandström says that he is well aware that the program could be controversial.
“We want to be clear that there is nothing political about this. This is something we do because we think it will have a positive climate impact,” Sandström.
Sweden is at the forefront of imposing climate change ideology onto its population. In September, a Swedish professor suggested that people should begin to think about eating human flesh as a substitute for animal meat to combat climate change.
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