Global warming is increasingly becoming a license for government busybodies to micromanage other people’s lives. In addition to encouraging people to take vacations closer to home and waste less food, governments are now encouraging people to eat less meat in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Guardian reports that the German government has adopted this attitude, too:

Germany’s federal environment agency has issued a strong advisory for people to return to prewar norms of eating meat only on special occasions and otherwise to model their diet on that of Mediterranean countries.

Germans are among the highest meat consumers in Europe, obtaining around 39% of their total calorie intake from meat and meat products, compared with 25% in Italy.

“We must rethink our high meat consumption,” said Andreas Troge, president of the UBA, the government’s advisory body on environmental issues.

“I recommend people return to the Sunday roast and to an orientation of their eating habits around those of Mediterranean countries.”

(VIA Transatlantic Politics)