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posted by takyon on Friday February 24 2017, @07:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-in-America dept.

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 HiThere on Saturday February 25 2017, @01:08AM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 25 2017, @01:08AM (#471389) Journal

    I believe I did state "conspicuous consumption". It wasn't something the common folk could do, but a Roman Emperor or a French King could do it...and some of them did. I wouldn't swear that there weren't any Barons or Merchant Princes that did it, either.

    P.S.: There *were* ways of preserving meat so that it didn't need to be eaten immediately, but those weren't used in "conspicuous consumption". Salt pork, various jerkeys, etc. The Romans pickled dormouse in honey, but I'm not sure that doesn't count as "conspicuous consumption" even though it preserved the meat, because honey was quite extravagantly expensive. (At least during the middle ages they didn't know how to harvest the honey without destroying the hive...if not the bees, at least the place they called home.)

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