
Last week, Polytechnique Montréal, the engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, became the first university in Canada to outright ban the sale of beef on campus. The justification was environmental: reducing the institution’s carbon footprint. Similar measures have already appeared at several universities in the United States and Europe, where beef has either been sharply reduced or eliminated altogether, again under the banner of climate responsibility.

My reaction on reading headlines like ‘Shakespeare was a black woman’ is very much like that of Tom Hardy’s Mad Max on seeing a naked woman caged atop a tower in the middle of the desert: 
