The initiative is at more than 20% of the 1 million signatures necessary.

As of 4 pm CEST the numbers are:

Country Number of Signatures Percentage of the theshold
Austria 4,187 31.26%
Belgium 7,116 48.06%
Bulgaria 2,764 23.06%
Croatia 2,527 29.87%
Cyprus 288 6.81%
Czechia 4,690 31.68%
Denmark 7,684 77.85%
Estonia 1,827 37.02%
Finland 10,266 104.01%
France 16,732 30.04%
Germany 45,688 67.51%
Greece 2,469 16.68%
Hungary 4,509 30.46%
Ireland 4,680 51.06%
Italy 7,949 14.84%
Latvia 1,569 27.82%
Lithuania 3,109 40.09%
Luxembourg 430 10.17%
Malta 279 6.6%
Netherlands 15,999 78.25%
Poland 20,517 55.97%
Portugal 5,019 33.9%
Romania 7,917 34.03%
Slovakia 2,773 28.1%
Slovenia 1,478 26.21%
Spain 16,261 39.09%
Sweden 13,698 92.52%
Total 212.425 21,24%

To be successful the initiative needs to reach 1 million signatures and pass the threshold in at least seven countries.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home/allcountries

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    4 months ago

    The free market is incapable of policing itself. If your belief is that voting with your wallet is effective, that just shows how uneducated you truly are.

    Ah! Thank you. Now I know why despite not buying any meat for nearly two decades it hasn’t caused the meat industry to collapse. It’s because the free market is incapable of policing itself! I had originally thought it was because other people had different opinions but it’s actually the fault of capitalism and lack of regulations. I knew nobody actually wants to be able to purchase meat. It’s that they have no other choice!

    I’m unsure of what you mean by ‘temporary access’. Are you referring to the practice where corporations are trying to take advantage of selling licenses for games?

    I meant like when you go to a movie theatre you can only watch the movie at a specific place at a specific time and only once. You don’t get to own the movie. I also think this must be some kind of loophole that corporations are abusing and anyone paying for a movie ticket is being taken advantage of and they might not even know it. Perhaps a stop killing movies initiative should be next where we ensure movie theaters must give a copy of the movie to anyone who buys a ticket. Temporary access to media is wrong and the people buying it are uneducated and must be saved.

    The whole point is getting people to agree to these morals, and its difficult due to how entrenched a lot of people are in their own heads or scriptures. But the fact that the initiative is pulling these kinds of numbers proves that it’s not being a dick to ask for laws to back up customer rights that people feel are being violated.

    Finland has about 660,000 vegetarians. That’s way more than the 9,000 needed to sign an initiative! It actually looks like all of Europe has enough vegetarians to easily pass an initiative requesting to ban the sale of meat. I guess banning meat wouldn’t actually be extremist at all with those kinds of numbers!