Celery stalks, soy burgers, and carrot salad replacing frankfurters accompanied by classic sauerkraut. This will soon happen in the canteen and official ceremonies of the ministry for the environment. This unexpected tactical foray into the gastronomic heart of Germany, made by the Social Democrat Barbara Heindricks, a vegetarian and department holder, takes the Veg battle to a new level of confrontation.
However, as long as it's about theory, or being politically correct, everyone is acquiescent, but when it comes instead to Banning a national food things get decidedly more complicated, indeed, bloody. Indeed, the Germans have not taken it very well, and criticism of the minister's diktat has been extensive, fierce and multi-media.
The minister then felt she had to better explain her motives, dressing them up with a generic environmentalism which is now a fig leaf worn out by too much abuse.
"We don't want to To dictate to people what they should or should not eat, but only contribute to the protection of the environment by setting a good example. Why a vegetarian diet is certainly better from this point of view," the politician said, hoping to dampen the unexpected controversy that has engulfed not only her figure but the approval rating of the entire government.
Indeed, other ministers felt compelled to distance themselves from their fundamentalist colleague Veg, and even Chancellor Angela Merkel had to To refute rumors about an extension of this food ideology to all official German government initiatives.
However, the environment minister did not back down, moving from statements to deeds. A few days ago, at the international symposium "Exporting Green Technologies," held in Berlin and organized by the Ministry of the Environment, a buffet was prepared in which shone the Total absence of any food of animal origin. Symposium participants were thus treated to caramelized apples, celeriac and turnip escalopes, honey carrots, and vegetable lasagna. We do not know with how much jubilation this innovative menu was received.
Geopolitical consequences
Now at the continental level fear is rampant. If vegetarians have conquered Germany, how long will it be before its Troops invade Polish borders in the east and unleash his Veg-panzer-divisionen across the French-Belgian border in the west? And are we Italians safe from these intemerates? We will become allies of this new ideology? Or will we make it our own in Mediterranean sauce, that is, in a bland and somewhat paracular version? And in case of armed conflict, whose side will we be on? American barbecue enthusiasts Will they rush to the aid of the old continent this time as well?
We are sure that the hot war has just been declared and that soon omnivores will respond with a frankfurter, steak, salami, ham, bologna, ketchup and mustard offensive.
Stay tuned.
Source: Republic.co.uk.
