2w ago

Dutch City of Nijmegen Bans Meat Ads and Endorses Plant Based Treaty

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2w ago

Dutch City of Nijmegen Bans Meat Ads and Endorses Plant Based Treaty

veganfta.com /2025/04/22/dutch-city-of-nijmegen-bans-meat-ads-and-endorses-plant-based-treaty/

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Good for Nijmegen. Especially focus on “endorsing”, which has always been done.

Yikes, how is that supposed to be uplifting? Sounds a whole lot like authoritarian overreach. Let people decide for themselves what they do and don't want to eat.
- No one is stopping them from buying meat though? There are still big sections full of it in stores that you see whenever you go grocery shopping.
  Heck, I would ban the ads on all food products if it were me. Same with pharmaceuticals.
  
  I wouldn't be opposed to blanket bans on advertisingin certain contexts. This however is the state going nanny on the populace.
- Yikes, imagine conflating corporate advertising with freedom.. Is this why companies hold so much power over us?
  
  Ok but aren't "Vegan meat" industries just another potentially shady Company?? Like how do we know they aren't gonna fall into the same deceptive practices that the Meat Industry does? Just because an animal isn't being harmed doesn't mean there isn't some corporate fuckery going on behind the scenes? (Ew now I sound like a communist or anti-capitalist.)
  I'm realizing now this isn't in America, so tbh good for them, I trust whatever they're doing over there is honest. But if this was in America?? Nah... I dont trust the food industry here at all.
  
  I expect you'd have a rather different stance if it was advertising for something you enjoy in life that was being singled out and banned.
  It'd be very different if it was a blanket ban on all advertisement in these contexts, but it isn't. It's the government trying to decide what people eat.
- Wtf. Regulations on advertising are not authoritarian, what the hell. Even if we'd put shock pictures of what happens in slaughterhouses (or even better, videos right next to the meat packages) like we do on cigarette boxes it still wouldn't be authoritarian. If governments would ban meat altogether despite a majority of people being against such a ban, that would be authoritarian. If a majority was for the ban it would be democratic.
  Given the clear science on the effects of and mechanisms behind public advertising this is clearly uplifting news.
- authoritarian overreach
  Like deciding what animals live and die?
  Stop projecting.
  
  Like deciding what animals live and die?
  Yup, in most cases it is the owners of said animals that decide what happens to them, like with other property. The government trying to force (or prevent) putting an animal down would also be overreach.
  The exceptions when it comes to property rights are generally when human beings are somehow endangered, which is where most rights and freedoms, sensibly, are limited.

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