SCOTTISH TV personality Gail Porter has issued a plea to the Girl Guides to introduce a new “vegan interest” badge to encourage children to do…
SCOTTISH TV personality Gail Porter has issued a Peta-backed plea to the Girl Guides to introduce a new “vegan interest” badge to encourage children to do their bit for animals and the environment.
Porter has not always “seen eye to eye” with the Guides after she was kicked out when she was younger. But she said that this campaign was an opportunity for the organisation to modernise and change her perception that it is “a little old-fashioned”.Porter noted that children are already increasingly heading towards plant-based diets, as “over 50% of children either already consider themselves vegan or vegetarian or would like to be”.
She suggested the badge could be awarded to members who show kindness to animals by cooking animal-free meals or eating vegan for a month, or even for growing vegetables. “But now, the facts are clear as day. According to researchers at the University of Oxford, eating vegan is the"single biggest way" to reduce our environmental impact.”A 2020 Oxford University study found that cutting meat and dairy from your diet could reduce your carbon footprint from food by as much as 73%, and would have a “far bigger” impact than cutting down on flights or transitioning to an electric vehicle.
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