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context: Seems utterly pointless, but what do I know. But hey, I'm always for less ads. Fuck ads. >
  
  It is pointless, but not for the reason you think. The province voted for this without proper research. The advertising is outsourced under a contract that says nothing about the contents of the ads (except that they must obey the law, no misleading, no hate etc...)
  This will not stand. >
  
  I'm confused. If the advertiser has to follow the law....and they just made a new law...what's the problem? >
  
  Governments can't just change laws like that, at least not in NL. >
  
  Of course they can. The bus station furniture and ad rights are tendered to the market every couple of years. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Noord-Holland aims to become the first of the 12 Dutch provinces to ban advertising for meat, fish, air travel and fossil fuels from its bus shelters, the Volkskrant reported on Thursday.
  The ban will cover some 500 bus shelters owned by the provincial council, most of which are located outside built-up areas.
  The provincial ban follows the example of eight Dutch cities which have already said they will ban advertising for fossil fuels from their bus shelters.
  
  
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  Yo public transporter: buy Shell petrol! >
  
  Most public transport in Amsterdam drives on electric/hybrid or natural gas, so likely no shell involved. >
  
  That'll do it. It was the bus stops all along >
  
  You laugh, but this means almost everyone else has smaller eggs than a state bus company. >
  
  If its targetting meat and fish that's counterproductive since it supports a diversonary narrative promoted by fossil fuel company PR agencies  to divert attention from their culpability. 
  People give up meat and think they're saving the planet whilst getting on a bus that is the true culprit. >
  
  Animal agriculture is right up there with fossil fuels in planetary destruction. Deforestation for feed crops, fresh water waste, poop run off creating dead zones in rivers and oceans, emissions from the 70+ billion land animals themselves, plus slaughter, plus packaging, plus transport.  
  Not to mention worsening antibiotic resistance in humans due to overuse in the meat we eat, and creating the perfect breeding grounds for a pandemic that could make covid look as lethal as a paper cut. 
  People don't realize how impactful the animal agriculture industry is because ads tell us all about "happy cows" and "incredible, edible eggs," but if you read up on it, you'll see factory farming is detrimental to the planet. >
  
  That is stupid. >
  
  No, it's fantastic! >
  
  Great, more casino/gambling ads..... >
  
  Coming to you from the country that has a huge export of flowers. In Denmark we have lots of advertising of tulips from Holland pay by the EU. 
  Transporting fresh tulips to all over Europe whit subsidies from the EU, could be a better place to start if they would help solve the climate crisis. >
  
  Oh, come ON…. >
  
  So no one from Noord-Holland will be flying anymore