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Harlem, the city known as Harlem, New York, is located west of Amsterdam. Harlem has added meat to the list of goods determined to contribute to the climate crisis, The Guardian reported. Advertisements for meat will be prohibited in the city of about 160,000 starting in 2024. The wait is due to current contracts with the product companies.
“We can’t tell people there’s a climate crisis and encourage them to buy products that are part of the cause,” said LeTrouw, the Harlem councilman. GreenLeft, Ziggy Klass, who drafted the proposal, as reported in Dutch news. Meat advertisements will not be allowed on buses, shelters or screens in Harlem’s public spaces, he reported Food Ingredients First. The legislation also includes a ban on advertisements for fossil fuels, fossil fuel-powered cars and vacation flights, the Guardian reported.
“Meat is no less harmful to the environment,” said Kalzas, as reported by me Food Ingredients First. City council members said the legislation is unclear if advertising sustainably produced meat will also be prohibited.
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The meat sector was not satisfied with the ban and invented the phrase “Netherlands Meatland“, or “the food country of the Netherlands”, to encourage meat consumption. The spokesman for the central organization for the meat sector (COV) argued that the ban is a matter of freedom of expression. “The authorities are going too far in telling people what is best for them,” a spokesman said COVas she reported Food Ingredients First.
According to recent studies, one-third of all emissions contributing to global warming come from food production, with meat producing twice as much pollution as plant-based foods, reported theGuardian. Forests are destroyed to make way for livestock grazing, and nitrogen-rich fertilizers can contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer, as well as creating water pollution. Animals also produce the powerful greenhouse gas methane. When he drafted the legislation, Klazes was unaware that Harlem would be the first city in the world to actually ban meat advertising.
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