Environment & climate

Should the state encourage eating less meat?

The test question and the possible answers

The state should encourage people to eat less meat.

What's at stake: The debate is less about the climate facts than about the state's role: informing, steering canteens, taxing, or leaving everyone free.

The left's argument

Livestock farming weighs heavily in emissions. Encouraging less meat is useful.

The centre's argument

Inform people and offer more vegetarian meals in canteens, without banning anything.

The right's argument

What we eat is none of the state's business, and livestock farming supports many farmers.

And you, where do you stand?

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