Animal rights activists in Germany on Wednesday urged women to stage a sex strike against carnivorous men to combat greenhouse gas emissions.
Women “must strike to save the world,” said Daniel Cox, campaign director of the German branch of the organization PETA. The group recalled a study by Plos One, a scientific publication, which indicated that men pollute 41% more than women due to their greater consumption of meat.
“We all know them,” Cox declared. “Family men in the suburbs drinking gallons of beer while grilling 70-cent sausages on 700-euro grills.” This “toxic masculinity” led the group, founded in 1980 in the United States, to called for a vow of chastity, and even prohibited the reproduction of carnivorous mensustaining that each child represents an impact of 58.6 tons of CO2 in just one year.
Cox still defended an increase in the meat tax to 41%as a way to combat the impact of excessive consumption on global warming.
The campaign made the front pages of German newspapers and is causing controversy, with various groups calling the statements undemocratic, “disgusting” and “shameful”. The German politician Dorothee Bär, who was part of the successive governments of Angela Merkel, was one of the voices that spoke out against PETA’s claims.
For whom are we saving the environment, if not for our children? Linking children to harmful CO2 emissions is disgusting. It is precisely the next generations that will save the climate in the future,” said Bär.
Bavarian MP Florian Hahn said the call was undemocratic. “Instead of banning sex for carnivores, we should be banning divisive ideologies like this,” he added.
PETA is an international organization with around 9 million members worldwide. Founded in 1980 in the United States, it has been defending animal rights for years and fighting against practices such as intensive farming for consumption, the use of animals to test products and in entertainment.
Source: Observadora
