Why a Dutch city is set to ban meat adverts

A city in the Netherlands is set to ban most adverts for meat in public spaces over concerns of the industry’s impact on climate change.

It will become the first city in the world to institute such a ban.

Councillor Ziggy Klazes, from the GroenLinks party based in Haarlem in the country’s east, said it will only extend to the “big meat industry”.

“We’re allowed to ban product groups from advertisement, but we’re not allowed to ban companies,” she said on 3AW Breakfast.

“So that will be tricky, whether we can ban McDonalds burgers, but we can definitely ban, I think, meat from the supermarket that’s made by the bio industry.”

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