Vegan FC: Football Club Bans All Animal Products On Match Days

A football club has now gone totally vegan on match days after it banned cow’s milk from its tea.

Conference Premier League side Forest Green Rovers are now the first team in the world to ban all meat products from its stadium.

They initially got rid of meat four years ago before ditching fish in August this year.

Now cow’s milk has been replaced with a soya alternative and even animal-friendly lager has been introduced to make the club entirely vegan.

The measures were brought in by vegan millionaire club chairman Dale Vince, who said he was on a “mission” to introduce fans to his way of thinking.

He said: “When you drop the meat and two veg approach, a whole new world of food options opens up.

"The gap between vegetarian and vegan food is actually quite small - it’s a step rather than a leap to take.

"A lot of our food has been vegan for some time now, and this season we’ve taken the last small step.”

Fans on the terraces are now offered a ‘Q-Pie’ - supplied by club partners Quorn - as well as veggie burgers, Mexican fajitas, sweet potato burgers, and pizza.

Even the beer and cider on sale at The New Lawn is vegan lager and cider from the Cotswold Brewing Company.

Vince, the founder of the wind turbine company Ecotricity, has also made other eco-friendly changes at the club, including fitting solar panels to the stadium roof, and an "organic” pitch by avoiding the use of chemicals.

He added: “The meat and dairy industry is responsible for more emissions than all the world’s planes, trains, cars and boats put together.

"Cows, for example, can take up to ten times more high quality plant protein - grains and soya - than they produce - 10 kg goes in, 1kg comes out - which is madness.

"And, of course, as the World Health Organisation report this week makes plain, meat is bad for human health, being a major cause of cancer.

"Making these facts plain and demonstrating what a plant based diet looks, and tastes like, is an important part of our work.”