In England there is a 100% vegan football team, the Forest Green Rovers of Nailsworth

VEGAN FOOTBALL TEAM –

In England, there is a football team that has become famous not for its sporting merits but for the food choices adopted by the club . It is the English Forest Green Rovers, which plays in the fifth tier (the Conference National) and is based in the town of Nailsworth , Gloucestershire. This team can be considered the first professional vegan team in the world . But it doesn't end there, in addition to the food choices, in Nailsworth they have also decided to make all the team's facilities highly sustainable.

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FOREST GREEN ROVERS VEGAN –

The first step was taken in 2011, with the ban on the sale of meat burgers during matches played at the team's stadium (The New Lan in Gloucestershire). The big step is more recent: since July, the menu served to fans and players has become vegetarian (eliminating meat and fish), and subsequently, a shift has been made to explicitly vegan options, with the elimination of cow's milk and the introduction of plant-based substitutes, such as soy milk and oat milk . At the same time, all other animal products have also been eliminated from the club's diet. Cow's milk has also been replaced with soy or oat milk, and all animal products have been eliminated.

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SUSTAINABLE FOOTBALL TEAM –

In addition to their vegan diet, the team has made other green choices: starting with a stadium powered by solar panels , where no chemicals are used for the organic grass, and irrigated by a rainwater harvesting system . The initiative was spearheaded by club president Dale Vince, 54 , a vegan and owner of the company Ecotricity, which produces energy from sustainable sources . "The meat and dairy industry is responsible for more emissions than all the planes, trains, and cars in the world combined," Vince said. "But even more serious is the incredible animal cruelty it entails, with staggering numbers: in the UK alone, over a billion animals are eaten every year, three million a day, and that's not even counting fish."

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