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Students picking up food in UC Berkeley dining commons are now required to show that they are compliant with campus COVID-19 testing requirements.
Beginning Monday, to check for compliance, student employees known as health ambassadors have started to use an online eTang badge system that assigns colors according to the student’s testing status, according to an email from Cal Dining and Cal Housing. Students will be required to use their phones or a provided iPad to show their badges.
A green badge indicates the student has been testing negative for COVID-19 twice a week, and they will be allowed into the dining hall. Those with orange or red badges, or yellow badges after Feb. 8, will have pre-packaged meals brought out to them instead, according to campus spokesperson Adam Ratliff.
After the week of Jan. 24 saw 147 confirmed COVID-19 cases as reported by UHS, UC Berkeley released an update urging students to avoid indoor gatherings.
Despite UC Berkeley’s reputation for emphasizing environmentalism and sustainability, the campus seems to do little to promote an environmentally conscious approach to our future, exemplified by its failure to eliminate usage of animal products. A lifestyle free from the consumption of animal products is not only sustainable but also affordable. Animal agriculture, on the other hand, is both immoral and destructive to the environment.
Animal agriculture, which refers to the “mass industrialization of the breeding, raising, and slaughter of animals for human consumption,” exploits innocent animals and takes a negative toll on our planet, as it is one of the biggest contributors to human-made greenhouse gas emissions.