Worldlog Hafta 38 – 2009

Güzel bir haftayi geride biraktik! Sali günü Prensler günüyle basladik Meat Free Mondays asci sapkasi ile bütün ilgiyi toplamis oldum basindan ve cevreden sapka gecidi sunduk Prensler gününde.

Hatta bu gösteriler Brezilya ülkesinin dahi gözünden kacmamis olacak’ki oradada hayretle izlenmis! Buradan görebilirsiniz.

Devletin senelik bütce harcamalari esnasinda dikkatleri cekmek istedigim nokta ise agaclarin göge kadar uzamalari degil zamanla biraz biraz budanarak kesilmeleri.

‘never waste a good crisis’cercevesi icerisinde kabinenin bunlara fazla zaman ayarirmalarini istedim, nedeni ise bitkisel yaglara fazla enerji ve bütce ayirmak et ve balik mandira ürünleri asagi cekmek. Aynen plan bürosunun yasam icin öngördügü ölcüde.

Gösteriyorki baslangicta bu plan icin göstermis oldugum caba (cogunlukla eski partiler halen görmüs degiller halen celiski icerisindeler iklim problemi, agaclari yok etmeleri, hayvan hastaligi krizi, biyo degisim problemi, saglik problemi, tatli su yani icme suyu problemi ve yiyecek yani besin kitligi) fakat basbakanimiz Balkenende olayi üslendi ve kabinet bunlari ve et vergisini arastiracagina söz verdi.

Maliye Bakani Wouter Bos ise eglenceli gözlerle bakiyordu Basbakana,arastirmayi Balkenendenin kabul ettigi icin nedeni ise Wouter Bos vegitaryan olusu, fakat Ziraai ve Tarim Bakani oturdugu koltukdan adeta yok oluyordu ikinci sirada. Cünkü gecen hafta televizyon haberlerinde Hollandada et’e vergi gelmeyecegini haber vermisti..

Genelde millet vekilerin kritik davrandiklari olay ise Hollandanin Kraliyet aylesi 1.6 milyon euro yardim almalari aldiklari bu paralar hobilerinde kullanmak icin ekstra bir gelir; zevki icin kraliyet aylesinin geyikleri vurmalari , yaban domuzlari vurmalari Apeldoorn bölgesinde ‘ki saray ormanlarinda avlamaktadirlar .

Genis milletvekileri toplulugu kraliyet aylesine yapilan ve hobilerinde kullanilan bu yardim paralarinin kesilmesi ve özelikle avcilikta kullanilan ve bu geliri kesmek veya dondurmak aynen esit diger Hollanda halki gibi gelir vergisini ödemeleri, Mozambik ‘de bulunan tatil evinin insa edilmesi bunlar Hollanda halkinin cebinden cikmaktadir

Hernedense bu olaylar cogunluk tarafindan kabul görmedi, nedeni yöneten parti Hiristiyan demokrat partisi olusu ve etrafinda yöneten koalisyon partilerin bunu bloke etmeleri, gösteriyorki beklemede kaldi bu konu .
Hayvan karsiti giderek cogalmaktadir ve bitkisel alanda yasam cogunluk kazanmaktadir.

Günceligini koruyan Tara Garnet raporu.

Bizler kazanan elleriz!

Haftaya görüsmek üzere hosca kalin,

Marianne

It’s been a great week! It all began on Tuesday with Prinsjesdag, the day of the Queen’s speech where the Meat Free Mondays chef’s hat stole the attention of the press and public at the traditional “parade of hats” put on by female attendees to the Queen’s speech.

The news got as far as Brazil! Check here.

During the budget discussions I said we needed to realise that the world’s forests are under threat with trees being felled at alarming rates.

In the spirit of ‘never waste a good crisis’ I asked the cabinet to invest more time, energy and money in promoting vegetable proteins and reducing the consumption of meat, fish and dairy produce. This is exactly what the Planning Office for the Living Environment proposes.

At first, it didn’t look as though this plan would win majority support, (most of the traditional parties still fail to make the link between climate issues, deforestation, outbreaks of animal diseases, health problems and fresh water problems and food shortages) but prime minister Balkenende actually adopted the motion: the cabinet is going to commission a study into a meat tax!

I saw a sparkle in the eyes of our minister of finance, Wouter Bos, when the prime minister announced the study (Wouter Bos is a vegetarian himself), while the minister of agriculture fidgeted around very uncomfortably in her chair in the second row. Last week she had announced in the Netherlands’ leading TV news show that, no matter what, there would be no steak tax…

A great victory that will only raise people’s awareness further.

Many members of parliament were critical of our drawing the chamber’s attention to the fact that the Dutch Royal Family receive a 1.6 million euro subsidy to pursue their pastime: shooting deer, boar and roe for fun in the forests surrounding het Loo palace in Apeldoorn.

There was also a well-heard call for the Royal Family to make more concessions, be it in ending the subsidy to the hunting department, a freezing of their generous incomes, making them pay income tax just like everyone else in the Netherlands, preventing them from having a vacation house built in Mozambique, for which the Dutch tax payer is being asked to pay the security costs and a good deal of the transportation costs.

Despite the fact that these proposals did not receive a majority because they were blocked by the ruling Christian-Democrats and its coalition partners, it is clear that we are seeing a shift in attitudes. Animal-unfriendly decadence is being rejected by ever more people and the drive for a more vegetable-based society is gaining increasing support.
And this is even more the case following the recently published report by Tara Garnett

We are gaining ground!

Kind regards and until next week,

Marianne