The government in Germany has banned all meat products from official functions, claiming that eating meat is harmful to the environment. Barbara Hendricks says that eating meat contributes to global warming, and she has ordered vegetarian-only food to be served at government events for the foreseeable future. Telegraph.co.uk reports: A rival minister has accused her of “nanny-statism” and trying to force vegetarianism on people “by the back door”. With elections only months away and Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) lagging behind their junior coalition partner in the polls, it was only a matter of time before tempers started to fray. But no one expected the first falling-out to be over vegetarian vol-au-vents. Ms Hendricks is a member of the Social Democrats (SPD), who have surged ahead of Mrs Merkel’s CDU in the polls under their new leader, Martin Schulz, the former European parliament president. Senior figures in Mrs Merkel’s party have pounced on the vegetarian catering policy as evidence the centre-left SPD will interfere in citizens’ private lives on ideological grounds. “I’m not having this Veggie Day through the back door,” Christian Schmidt, the food minister, said. “I believe in diversity and freedom of choice, not nanny-statism and ideology. Instead of [...]
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