Posted on 09/23/2019 4:15:13 PM PDT by fruser1
Eating meat could be made illegal like smoking in pubs, says top barrister
Eating meat could become illegal in the future due to the damage caused to the environment, says a leading barrister calling for a new ecocide law.
Michael Mansfield QC says new legislation is needed to criminalise the wilful destruction of nature, which he described as a crime against humanity.
There are plenty of things that were once commonplace that are now illegal such as smoking inside.
We know that because the UN has told us so.
The organisation's director, Juliet Gellatley, said: Thirty years ago people didn't bat an eyelid if you lit a cigarette in a pub or restaurant. But now society accepts smoking is harmful and totally unnecessary and so we legislated against it.
The same could happen with eating meat.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Unmitigated dictators, every one of them.
“Love yer suit”
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Interesting!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
I’m assuming that jellied eels will still be available.
How about smoking meat?
He could do with a haircut, too. I know just the place, right over by the meat pie shop...
“But now society accepts smoking is harmful and totally unnecessary and so we legislated against it. The same could happen with eating meat.”
Sure, and while you’re Nanny Stating everything to death, Michael, why don’t you pull down a few of your British hero statues that might make some of the “Asians” feel uncomfortable?
It looks like him, doesn't it? (Down there on the farm, he's known as "Matt Spuds".)
black market
Must be in the running for Pope.
I'm guessing about half of them are on...
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"...it is a tale Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
This article is like a bad movie about a dystopian future where everything one says or does is controlled by the government. Enforcing a law against eating meat - how will it be done? Will there be air sniffers installed on every block to detect a steak in a broiler? Will there be anit-meat Wardens who, like their predecessors during the Blitz, patrol the neighborhood trying to catch someone enjoying a burger? Will a there be a trade in illegal meat products, and will it require a new law enforcement agency to root out those who would damage our ecosystems by raising cattle? The possibilities are endless but all lead to the same conclusion -an overreaching government controlling everything.
“bad movie”
More like real life.
I know someone who used to live in Viet Nam.
They were allowed one chicken a week.
And there were folks checking people’s trash to see if there were too many bones in there...
Cigar smoker here—we knew this was coming.....
Liberty is indeed indivisible—a lesson only learned the hard way.
Hmmmm. Better stock up
What about the excuse "it morphed into something more sinister?"
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