Transatlantic Politics

Forget the war on terror. Now that Obama is shutting down Guantanamo and all CIA prisons, it’s clear that the enemy is elsewhere: It’s on your plate. Especially if you are a schnitzel or a steak-lover in Germany.

This is no joke. It’s for real. Here’s what the Guardian reports:

Germans have been urged to rethink their meat-eating habits if they want to help the planet. Germany’s federal environment agency has issued a strong advisory for people to return to prewar norms of eating meat only on special occasions and otherwise to model their diet on that of Mediterranean countries. Agriculture was responsible for around 15% of Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions and meat production was the most energy-intensive form of farming. With that in mind, reducing meat consumption was a logical step forward.

People, where is this going to? Have we all lost our common sense? Are we heading towards state-planned, rationalised eating schemes? What about freedom? What about choice? What about individual responsibility? Germany should know better, it’s not that long ago that they had state-planned societies - first during Hitler, then during the Soviet Union, in Eastern Germany.

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