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Evening Standard
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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Dutch city Haarlem becomes first in world to ban meat adverts

Police officers carry out checks as a Covid curfew began in th Dutch city of Haarlem on January 23, 2021

(Picture: ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

A Dutch city has become the first in the world to ban meat adverts.

Haarlem - a city 30km outside Amsterdam and home to more than 160,000 people - has taken the move in an effort to curb meat consumption and reduce the meat industry’s environmental impact.

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