Posted on 09/22/2013 5:32:01 PM PDT by mandaladon
BERLIN—The elections set to take place here in Germany Sunday are expected to turn largely on the country's solid economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel's handling of the European debt crisis and social issues like women's role in the work force. But add to that plate one more thing: Germans don't want the government telling them what to eat.
In what could be a cautionary tale for First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts to tweak Americans' diets, Germans look set to punish the Green Party for urging that public cafeterias go meat-free on a designated "Veggie Day" each week in order to help the environment and reduce cruelty to animals. Borrowing colorfully from English, German newspaper Bild described public reaction to the idea as a "shitstorm." At her party's final campaign rally on Saturday, Merkel joined in, slamming the Green proposal.
"You will never hear from the Christian Democratic Union party when you should eat meat and when you shouldn't," Merkel said to loud applause from her supporters and campaign workers in the Tempodrom theater.
"I grew up in a Christian house. We didn't eat meat on Fridays. I think every restaurant should have a vegetarian dish, but we are a party confident people can manage their own lives," the German prime minister added. "We are confident people will live a reasonable life and we don't want to deprive them of this opportunity."
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They can’t declare Veggie Day while the vegetable is still alive. Wait until Barack meets his maker (hopefully a long time from now) and then declare a day in his honor.
Ich bin ein Scheißsturmer
The only thing remotely related to food that MO reminds me of is a filthy clogged-up grease trap.
The champion of the social market economy won big?
Her main opponent was a wacky gaffe-prone socialist.
Run, Biden, run!
OMG. The corn babies are going to die!
Telling a German not to eat meat is like telling a fat kid not to eat cake. Don’t do it
Der grunen: eat scheiss and die.
Germans look set to punish the Green Party for urging that public cafeterias go meat-free on a designated "Veggie Day" each week in order to help the environment and reduce cruelty to animals... "You will never hear from the Christian Democratic Union party when you should eat meat and when you shouldn't," Merkel said to loud applause from her supporters and campaign workers in the Tempodrom theater. "I grew up in a Christian house. We didn't eat meat on Fridays. I think every restaurant should have a vegetarian dish, but we are a party confident people can manage their own lives," the German prime minister added. "We are confident people will live a reasonable life and we don't want to deprive them of this opportunity."
I don’t get it, being a vegetarian was good enough for Adolf Hitler. The greens only want Germans to be 1/7 genocidal madman.
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