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FINLAND’S OLDEST AND LARGEST UNIVERSITY DITCHES BEEF

芬兰最大、最古老的大学取消牛肉供应

The University of Helsinki will stop serving beef in February to fight the climate crisis.

为了应对气候危机，赫尔辛基大学（University of Helsinki）将在明年二月份开始停止供应牛肉。

by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

作者：ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

OCTOBER 17, 2019

2019年10月17日

Starting February 2020, the University of Helsinki—the oldest and largest university in Finland—will no longer serve beef for lunch.

从2020年2月开始，赫尔辛基大学──芬兰最大最古老的大学（创建于1640年）──将不再为午餐提供牛肉。

The school’s food provider UniCafe—which serves approximately 1,000 lunches daily—made the decision to remove beef from the menu in a bid to fight the climate crisis and revealed that the move would reduce its carbon footprint by 11 percent annually.

该所大学的餐饮提供商UniCafe──每天为学校供应大约1,000份午餐──为了应对气候危机，已做出决定从菜单中撤除牛肉，并表示这一举措每年可以减少其11%的碳足迹（carbon footprint）。

“The idea came from the staff as we were thinking about our next responsibility action,” Leena Pihlajamäki, the chief operating officer at UniCafe, told local media outlet YLE. 

UniCafe首席运营官（COO）莉娜·皮赫拉亚梅基（Leena Pihlajamäki）告诉当地媒体机构Yle（芬兰国家公共广播公司）：“在考虑我们的下一项责任行动（responsibility action）的时候，员工们就有了这个（撤除牛肉的）想法。”

“We realised that this is a way to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions significantly. Studies show that it’s one of the most effective ways. The goal is ambitious but far from impossible.” 

“我们认识到这是大幅减少我们的二氧化碳排放量的一个办法。各项研究表明它也是最有效的方法之一。这是一个雄心勃勃的目标，但绝不是什么天方夜谭的事情。”

The University of Helsinki follows the University of Coimbra (Portugal’s oldest university), University of Cambridge, and Goldsmiths college which have all pledged to remove beef from on-campus dining facilities in recent months for environmental purposes.

赫尔辛基大学正在积极效仿科英布拉大学（University of Coimbra）（葡萄牙最古老大学）、剑桥大学（University of Cambridge）和金史密斯学院（Goldsmiths College）的做法。为了环境利益着想，这些高校在最近几个月里都已经做出承诺，取消校内餐饮设施的牛肉供应。