UConn students push back on new burgers, ask to go back to beef

The University of Connecticut Dining Service’s decision to replace beef burgers with blended mushroom burgers is not going over so well with some students on campus, according to the school newspaper. One student, Cameron Tracy, was so turned off by the half-beef/half-mushroom burger that he started a Change.org petition to bring the all-beef patties back, at least to have as an option. The petition is at 250 signatures and counting. School officials said the change was made in response to a student survey to make food options on campus more healthful and more environmentally sustainable, and they’re not going back. “If we made (all-beef burgers) as an option, we’re not having the impact on the environment that we want to have (and) we’re not having the impact on students’ health we want to have,” said C. Dennis Pierce, director of Dining Services. “Any time you change something on a menu it can be kind of risky, but when you think about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it does validate (the change).”