<p>The Dutch city of Haarlem is set to become the first in the world to ban advertisements for most meat because of its impact on climate change, officials said Wednesday.</p>.<p>The city of 160,000 people near Amsterdam has agreed to outlaw ads for intensively farmed meat on public places like buses, shelters and screens from 2024.</p>.<p>The move was approved by the city council in November, but went unnoticed until last week when a councillor announced he had officially notified advertising agencies.</p>.<p>"It will be the first city in the Netherlands -- and in fact Europe and indeed the world -- to ban 'bad' meat ads in public places," Ziggy Klazes, councillor for the GroenLinks (Green-Left) party who drafted the motion, told AFP.</p>.<p>She said it went against the city's politics to "earn money by renting the city's public space to products which accelerate global warming".</p>.<p>The ban would target all "cheap meat from intensive farming", she said, adding "as far as I'm concerned that includes ads from fast food chains."</p>.<p>The city had not yet decided whether to ban ads for organic meat.</p>.<p>Amsterdam and The Hague have already banned ads for air travel, petrol-driven cars and fossil fuels but now Haarlem is set to add meat to that list.</p>.<p>The ban has been criticised by the Dutch meat industry and some political parties who see it as a form of censorship and stigmatisation of meat eaters.</p>.<p>"Banning ads for political reasons is nearly dictatorial," Joey Rademaker, a Haarlem councillor for the right-wing BVNL party, said in a statement.</p>.<p>The plan comes at a sensitive time for the Netherlands, which has seen months of protests by farmers angry at government plans to cut nitrogen emissions to meet EU environmental targets.</p>.<p>Meanwhile the legal status of the carnivorous crackdown is also uncertain.</p>.<p>A ban could be challenged as being an attack on freedom of expression, administrative law professor Herman Broering of Groningen University was quoted as saying by Trouw newspaper.</p>.<p>Agriculture contributes to deforestation, climate change and emissions of greenhouse gases, loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, and is a major user of fresh water.</p>.<p>The EU has suggested that people cut down on consumption of meat and dairy products.</p>.<p>Some 95 per cent of Dutch people eat meat, including 20 per cent every day, according to the Dutch central statistics office.</p>
<p>The Dutch city of Haarlem is set to become the first in the world to ban advertisements for most meat because of its impact on climate change, officials said Wednesday.</p>.<p>The city of 160,000 people near Amsterdam has agreed to outlaw ads for intensively farmed meat on public places like buses, shelters and screens from 2024.</p>.<p>The move was approved by the city council in November, but went unnoticed until last week when a councillor announced he had officially notified advertising agencies.</p>.<p>"It will be the first city in the Netherlands -- and in fact Europe and indeed the world -- to ban 'bad' meat ads in public places," Ziggy Klazes, councillor for the GroenLinks (Green-Left) party who drafted the motion, told AFP.</p>.<p>She said it went against the city's politics to "earn money by renting the city's public space to products which accelerate global warming".</p>.<p>The ban would target all "cheap meat from intensive farming", she said, adding "as far as I'm concerned that includes ads from fast food chains."</p>.<p>The city had not yet decided whether to ban ads for organic meat.</p>.<p>Amsterdam and The Hague have already banned ads for air travel, petrol-driven cars and fossil fuels but now Haarlem is set to add meat to that list.</p>.<p>The ban has been criticised by the Dutch meat industry and some political parties who see it as a form of censorship and stigmatisation of meat eaters.</p>.<p>"Banning ads for political reasons is nearly dictatorial," Joey Rademaker, a Haarlem councillor for the right-wing BVNL party, said in a statement.</p>.<p>The plan comes at a sensitive time for the Netherlands, which has seen months of protests by farmers angry at government plans to cut nitrogen emissions to meet EU environmental targets.</p>.<p>Meanwhile the legal status of the carnivorous crackdown is also uncertain.</p>.<p>A ban could be challenged as being an attack on freedom of expression, administrative law professor Herman Broering of Groningen University was quoted as saying by Trouw newspaper.</p>.<p>Agriculture contributes to deforestation, climate change and emissions of greenhouse gases, loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, and is a major user of fresh water.</p>.<p>The EU has suggested that people cut down on consumption of meat and dairy products.</p>.<p>Some 95 per cent of Dutch people eat meat, including 20 per cent every day, according to the Dutch central statistics office.</p>