00:00Has Amsterdam banned meat adverts so as not to offend Muslims?
00:07Andrei Ventura, the leader of Portugal's far-right Chega Party, recently claimed that the Dutch
00:13capital has banned meat adverts because they could be seen as offensive to Muslims.
00:18In this post on X, Ventura published a video of himself reacting to a headline that says
00:23that Amsterdam has prohibited such adverts in all public places, and he says in the clip
00:28that it shows Europe is descending into madness.
00:48While it is true that Amsterdam has banned meat adverts, it has nothing to do with not wanting
00:53to offend Muslims.
00:54The city became the world's first capital to prohibit public adverts for both meat and
00:59fossil fuel products on 1 May, getting rid of ads for airlines, cruises, meat, fish and
01:05other products in the process.
01:07The move was made to bring Amsterdam in line with the local government's environmental targets,
01:12which include making the capital carbon neutral by 2050 and for residents to halve their meat
01:17consumption in the same timeframe.
01:19The approved text says advertising fossil fuel and meat products normalizes high-carbon lifestyles,
01:25incompatible with climate targets.
01:27It doesn't say anything about Islam anywhere.
01:30The livestock industry is responsible for around 15% of the world's global greenhouse emissions,
01:35according to researchers, although some meat and travel industry groups have criticized the
01:40move as paternalistic and overly restrictive for consumers.
01:43Returning to the false claims shared by Ventura, Islam doesn't even have a blanket ban on eating
01:49meat.
01:49Traditional Islamic law says that Muslims can't eat pork, but that other meat can be consumed
01:54as long as it's halal.
01:57Alongside Islamic law says that Muslims will be 85% of the higher- அதs of the market.
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