April 1, 2021 5:30 pm
Students from Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have been crowned the winners of the sixth annual Great Agri-Food Debate.
The debate, which was organised by Dawn Meats and McDonald’s, took place virtually for the first time this year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Six third-level colleges took part in the event and this year marked the first time an institution from outside the island of Ireland took part, with Wales’ Aberystwyth University facing off against Northern Ireland’s College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE).
This is the second time WIT has claimed the title, previously winning back in 2019 when proposing the motion ‘Vegan diets are better for people and planet’.