World Newscross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/51503858
Over 50 cities, mostly European, have either restricted or tabled motions to introduce formal limitations on the advertisement of polluting products and services. Some – including several Dutch municipalities, Stockholm, Edinburgh and Sydney – have banned them altogether.
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In response the US will mandate twice as many ads for fossil fuel and meat, and call it a triumph of freedom.
Like with bribing oil companies not to build windmills Trump wil probably give the meat industry money not to develop meat free alternatives
Reminds me that Maddox guy, from ages ago, and his rant about veganism.
For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat 10.
While meat can be sustainably produced in certain regions. That isn't true in the Netherlands. They are absolutely filled to the brim with livestock with huge issues with water pollution and algal blooms as a result. Good on them for trying to reduce their meat consumption.
This is important to realise. They just hit the limits of local meat production - supply and demand isn't working anymore, so they transition to a more economic and efficient source. This also does make it more environmentally friendly as a side effect, its more implicit in this case.
Im all for banning big mac ads, but does this apply to delis and local butchers as well? That seens like an area where this ban could be more controversial compared to fast food advertising.
All meat consumption leads to the same kind of pollution, soil destruction and inefficient land use, with an even worse effect in a tiny country like the Netherlands. So they decided to do something about it.
Meat?
The meat industry is also responsible for a huge portion of global greenhouse gas emissions, and for nearly 60% of the food sector’s emissions. The global livestock industry alone is one of the world’s highest emitting sectors, estimated to be responsible for between 14-18% of total human-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Yes animal agriculture is a huge source of pollution.
