Dutch city bans ads for meat

[Geee]

American Thinker

Things are getting stranger in Harlem. Well, actually, Haarlem-- a city in the Netherlands. The Dutch city of 160,000 people, located near Amsterdam, has agreed to outlaw ads for intensively farmed meat on public places such as buses, shelters and screens…starting in 2024.

The move was approved by the city council last fall, but a councilor only recently announced that he had officially notified advertising agencies of the ban. Ziggy Klazes, councilor for the GroenLinks (Green-Left) party who drafted the motion, proudly told the Agence France-Presse (AFP): "It will be the first city in the Netherlands -- and in fact Europe and indeed the world -- to ban 'bad' meat ads in public places.”

Ms. Ziggy sniffed to the Trouw newspaper, “Meat is very harmful to the environment. We cannot tell people that there is a climate crisis and encourage them to buy products that are part of it.” She has also stated that it goes against the city’s politics to "earn money by renting the city's public space to products which accelerate global warming.” And no one would wish to go against the city’s politics! Land O’ Goshen!

As of this writing, Haarlem had not yet decided if the ban would include all "cheap meat from intensive farming,” but Klazes added, "as far as I'm concerned that includes ads from fast food chains." So much for having it your way, Burger King. And you can bet McDonald’s is not loving it.

[Valin]

@Geee

I have a couple of things to say. It is noted that a picture is worth a thousand words so....