BLUE PETER VEGGIE BADGE WOKE FURY
Farmers’ outrage as kids rewarded for ditching meat
WOKE Blue Peter has been accused by parents and farmers of telling kids to stop eating meat with their meals.
The classic children’s telly show is offering green badges – similar to the famous blue ones – to youths who are eco warriors at school.
They can earn them for going veggie or vegan with their meals. The BBC show listed one of the options as:
“Go meat free.”
Farmer Andrew Ward
MBE fumed: “Bloody diabolical. The BBC do not have any morals.
“Targeting children to push the anti-meat agenda is a new low.”
Gareth Wyn Jones, who runs a 2,000-acre farm in
North Wales, said: “I’m very disappointed as a farmer and a father as well.
“They are saying don’t eat meat, which is just a sweeping statement.
“There is so much to food production that the viewers are not being told.
“Why aren’t Blue Peter and CBBC, who have a massive platform with millions of young minds listening, giving them a balanced argument.”
Countess Sara
Bathurst added: “I find this very worrying.
“Pushing food choices on to children will only cause family and personal conflict. It’s way too far.”
The show’s website explained youngsters would be “reducing plastic pollution and boosting biodiversity
– true climate hero behaviour”.
Next week presenter Richie Driss will visit a family of Welsh farmers to discuss how they rear livestock in an ecofriendly way. A BBC spokesperson said: “We are not asking Blue Peter viewers to give up meat.
“That will be made clear both on the show and on our website which has been updated to reflect that buying seasonal food or local grass-fed meat can also make a difference to climate change.” nadeem.badshah@dailystar.co.uk