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Student council members: Ice cream is not 'inclusive' enough
Campus Reform ^ | 9/13/18 | Adam Sabes

Posted on 09/14/2018 11:03:01 AM PDT by Maceman

Student council members at The University of Wisconsin-Madison are demanding the school change the ingredients in the official university ice cream, claiming that the current ingredients are discriminatory toward some minority students.

UW-M’s official ice cream, the Babcock, contains a beef gelatin additive, which according to the legislation, “renders certain communities such as the Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and vegetarian unable to enjoy it without violating their beliefs.”

“It renders certain communities such as the Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and vegetarian unable to enjoy it without violating their beliefs.”

The legislation, titled “Ice Cream for All,” is already has eight sponsors, including the Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary of the Associated Students of Madison Student Council. The ASM student council is comparable to a student government senate. The “Ice Cream for All” legislation will be voted on next Wednesday.

The ASM Student Council can only recommend changes to the university administration. Nothing that the ASM Student Council passes is, in fact, a definitive change.

The legislation states that the Babcock Ice Cream is an important tradition at UW-M, and “it would be a gross act of discrimination to continue to deprive some minority students” from eating the ice cream because of their religious beliefs. Sponsors of the legislation also added that issues like this play a part in the marginalization of students.

“Symbolic issues like these have always and will always play a critical role in whether marginalized students and people feel welcome, included, and connected to their community,” reads the legislation.

However, according to The Badger Herald, Scott Rankin, chair of the food science department, said the university ice cream shop, Babcock Dairy, offers an assortment of ice creams that are gelatin free, adding that it would be hard to replicate the taste of the gelatin-based ice cream.

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To: Red Badger

If there is BabCOCK ice cream, doesn’t fairness demand that they serve BabPUSSY ice cream as well?


41 posted on 09/14/2018 11:39:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I was thinking of another word...................


42 posted on 09/14/2018 11:41:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon.......Timelines change. Aug 16)
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To: Architect of Avalon

It’ll only happen if 2/3 of the US population is wiped out in a war and then the 1/3 will get real serious about survival. A raw fight for survival has a tendency to relegate issues like gelatin in the ice cream being unfair to Jews and Buddhists to their rightful importance.


43 posted on 09/14/2018 11:42:04 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Maceman

When will somebody tell these people to pound sand?


44 posted on 09/14/2018 11:42:59 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Maceman

all flavors mix together. Call it “X” cream.


45 posted on 09/14/2018 11:44:25 AM PDT by Leep
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To: Maceman

But will everybuddy get Two Scoops?


46 posted on 09/14/2018 11:45:56 AM PDT by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: Maceman

We need to investigate the schools we send our children to for higher education more thoroughly. Obviously these people have too much time on their hands, and must create things to do with it.


47 posted on 09/14/2018 11:46:32 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: itsahoot

No it’s not. It’s asking that a food which normally does not contain beef by products be offered without beef by products. Nowhere is it stated they asked (demand) the school stop serving food that you would expect to find beef in, such as pot roast or hamburgers or chili con carne.


48 posted on 09/14/2018 11:47:56 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: C19fan

“Isn’t ice cream not inclusive of people with lactose intolerant? 65% of the world’s population is lactose intolerant.”

If we don’t see five toes on each of those feet we are going out on strike.


49 posted on 09/14/2018 11:49:52 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: BBQToadRibs
"We are witnessing a generation where indignation is a core component of their psychological makeup."

Perhaps it's not just a "generation," but it is definitely a subset among several generations whose Creator-endowed abilities have been severely impacted and/or impaired by that ideology which self-identifies as Progressive. Consider the above statements and compare with the following advice which is summarized and widely known among a variety of religious followers for centuries:

“What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.” (Jewish)
“No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.” (Islamic)
“Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: do not unto others what you would not have done unto you.” (Confucian)
“All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.” (Christian)
“Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.” (Taoist)
“Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” (Buddhist)
“That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself.”(Zoroastrian)
“This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.” (Brahman)
- (Quotations cited in “ The Official Rules of Life,” by Seth Godin, ©1996)

50 posted on 09/14/2018 11:50:18 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Maceman

If your religious beliefs prevent you from eating ice cream, your religion is a hoax.


51 posted on 09/14/2018 11:50:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: lastchance

I agree that it’s sensible. I just didn’t need the bombastic social justice lecture the student council felt virtuous in making about it.


52 posted on 09/14/2018 12:01:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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To: Maceman

“the Babcock, contains a beef gelatin additive, which according to the legislation, “renders certain communities such as the Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist,”

They got that right for Hindus and some Buddhists but isn’t it pork that is a no no for Jews?


53 posted on 09/14/2018 12:08:58 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

Cannot mix meat and dairy.


54 posted on 09/14/2018 12:12:24 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Albion Wilde

Would they know how to make such a request without including bombastic social justice lecture? Sadly, I think not.


55 posted on 09/14/2018 12:19:06 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: I want the USA back

They are not prevented from eating ice cream. Their religious beliefs prevent them from eating beef and beef by products.


56 posted on 09/14/2018 12:20:27 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Kosher dietary laws to forbade the mixing of meat and dairy. I know there is kosher gelatin which this may be even though it is from beef. Something to do with the processing.


57 posted on 09/14/2018 12:21:57 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

So they just eat something else.

No big deal.

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58 posted on 09/14/2018 12:22:34 PM PDT by Mears
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To: lastchance

You would not be stupid to think ice cream should not have beef in it.
= = =

Well, these ARE smart college students, and they DO know that that ice cream has beef in it.


59 posted on 09/14/2018 12:36:32 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: Maceman

I want to know, in five years time, where all these individuals are in life.

Should be a REAL eye opener.


60 posted on 09/14/2018 12:37:22 PM PDT by simpson96
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