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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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(Score: 2) by theluggage on Friday February 24 2017, @04:29PM
don't understand the absurd reasons people seem to put fish and other seafood into some strange unnecessary isolated category
I think "cuteness" is a factor. Hence why some (silly) people balk at eating horses and rabbits. Fish aren't very cuddly, but I think it might be hard to sell whole, steamed clownfish since Finding Nemo came out.
As for the German decision, I really don't see a problem with an environmental agency promoting vegetarian food - apart from the environmental message it avoids having to pussy-foot around a lot of silly (non-medical) dietary "requirements" when mass catering.
(particularly christians).
What particular combination of misconceptions leads you to try and subject religion to logical analysis?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 24 2017, @08:14PM
steamed clownfish
Every discussion has to be about Trump.