cross-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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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.
This is absolutely not true. There is a vast difference between a US factory farm feeding cows nothing but corn and soy, and a Sami reindeer herder who is herding reindeer in the frozen tundra the same way his family has for thousands of years. Some land can’t be used for anything else than grazing, and while overgrazing is a thing, it’s not a universal constant. However the majority of meat on this earth is not sustainably farmed. That is absolutely true. But you can’t say no meat is sustainable.
But traditional herding cannot be used to produce enough meet for the high demand there is. Therefore it is necessary to lower the demand, and banning meat advertising could help with that.
Yes the Netherlands should cut way down. Other countries like Mongolia where the land is not suited for anything else, should be allowed to continue.
If the Sami sell the meat to non-sami, you have the same problem
All meat involves torturing and killing for no reason.