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Germany's Environment Ministry Bans Meat at Official Functions

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

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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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• Re:Meat is meat is meat Re:Meat is meat is meat (Score: 2) by tibman on Friday February 24 2017, @04:15PM

  by tibman (134) on Friday February 24 2017, @04:15PM (#471147)

  I've met three vegetarians that still ate fish...

  I don't understand it but "it's a thing". When asked about it they all said the vegetarianism was for health reasons and not moral ones. I think the name just sucks. How about, "i don't eat land meat" or something?

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• Re:Meat is meat is meat Re:Meat is meat is meat (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday February 24 2017, @04:34PM

  by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday February 24 2017, @04:34PM (#471161)

  Some eat chicken as well. I suspect it is because chicken takes less land/food to raise than other meats.

  Vatted meat will make things even more confusing.

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  • Re:Meat is meat is meat (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @07:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @07:08PM (#471268)

    i am considering the option of eating only meat from non-mammals.
    if there's an objective way of deciding what to eat, we may as well look at the tree of life and choose to not eat things that are objectively close to us.
    also, i think farmed mammals consume more resources per kg of end product than farmed birds or fish.

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• Re:Meat is meat is meat (Score: 3, Informative) by Taibhsear on Tuesday February 28 2017, @03:45PM

  by Taibhsear (1464) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @03:45PM (#472812)

  That's called pescatarian.

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