Clearly Veg reports:
Barbara Hendricks, Germany's environment minister, has banned meat in all official functions and called for only vegetarian food to be served. The ban became clear through an email "to department heads from a senior civil servant in the environment ministry", according to The Telegraph . The e-mail noted that the ministry had a responsibility and should set an example to combat the "negative effects of meat consumption", with a statement by the ministry reading:
"We're not telling anyone what they should eat. But we want to set a good example for climate protection, because vegetarian food is more climate-friendly than meat and fish."
Unsurprisingly, the ban has caused a lot of controversy. Minister of food and agriculture Christian Schmidt, who has previously stated that he will push for a ban on "misleading" vegan labels such as vegan curry sausages, stated that he will not be having this "Veggie Day through the back door", and that "meat and fish are also part of a balanced diet".
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(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday February 24 2017, @01:47PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @02:28PM
Hitler was a vegetarian, and many other Nazis were environmentalists and defended animal rights as well (hence why Germany was the first country to ban vivisection). Hitler wanted to change the German diet to reduce the amount of meat. He refrained from doing so during the war as it'd disrupt their food production, which would be inconvenient during peace time but deadly during total war.
That said, I'd bet this politician is only banning meat to submit to the hagheads who believe eating pork lands you in hell but blowing up ten people gets you to heaven.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday February 24 2017, @05:04PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism [wikipedia.org]
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"