Report: Dutch town may ban meat ads in public due to climate change

Administrators in one Dutch city Most advertising advertising meat in public places is to be banned due to its impact on the climate.

The proposal was put forward by GroenLinks, a green political party, and will go into effect in 2024 in Harlem, the BBC reported. The Netherlands’ meat sector has opposed the move, saying it stifles free speech.

Meat too harm the environment. We can’t tell people that there is a climate crisis and encourage them to buy the products that are part of it,” Ziggy Clazes, a member of GroenLinks who drafted the proposal, told Trouw.

The move would make Haarlem, a few miles from Amsterdam, the first city in the world to ban most meat advertisements. It can include chicken sold in supermarkets and fast food.

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An employee prepares ground beef for a customer at the Union Meat Company at East Market in Washington, DC. The Dutch city of Haarlem will likely ban most meat advertisements due to its impact on climate change. (Photo by Stephanie Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)/Getty Images)

The local government said it had not yet decided whether sustainable production would be included in the ban. The proposal received a backlash from meat industry.

A spokesman for the Central Organization for the Meat Sector said that “the authorities go too far in telling people what is best for them.”

The BBC report said the BVNL party called it an “unacceptable violation of the freedom of entrepreneurship”.

The United Nations said 14% of greenhouse gases are produced by livestock.

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In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that in 2020 it is estimated 11% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States came from agriculture Against 27% of transportation, 25% of energy, and 24% of industry.