Criminalisation of Meat Consumption in the Western World (The Second Enlightenment)

Starting with the criminalisation of the importation and consumption of meat-based products in the Republic of the Netherlands in 2092, many Western countries began to introduce such legislation which made it illegal for meat to be consumed. This was due to radical changes in the moral zeitgeist and social attitudes to animal rights instigated during the Second Enlightenment which, by the end of the 21st century, was responsible for a gradual acceptance of vegetarianism and veganism as a norm in Western diets, and great public contempt towards meat consumption and the slaughtering and mistreatment of animals for such purposes. 
Though meat consumption had been criminalised in the Republic of India much earlier, in 2049, as a result of the influence of the country's majority-Hindu and thereby vegetarian population, such proposals for criminalisation in European and North American countries did not become mainstream until the 2080s. While the major factor for the proposals was that of ethical and social awareness for animal rights, which had advanced astronomically since the early 2000s, the environmental impact of meat consumption and cattle farming had reached critical point, particularly in the United States, by this point. The only logical solution was to simply cease meat production in many Western countries.
Such legislation would have been deemed impossible and unfavourable in the early 21st century, due to meat being considered an essential high-biological-value protein and, at the time, a staple of Western cuisine. However, with the mainstream introduction of Micro-foods (edible food sources produced from cultured micro-organisms) and insect-based meat analogues (though of course these sources were eventually abandoned with criminalisation later on) in the 2030s, Western dependence on cattle rearing and mass meat production was greatly reduced, and with it rates of deforestation, methane emissions and numbers of cattle reared in the Western world. Since widespread criminalisation since the 2090s, Micro-foods now constitute the vast majority of protein and 'bulk' food sources in Western meals. 
Here is a list of Western countries and the respective years in which they criminalised the distribution, purchase and consumption of meat-based products: 
Republic of The Netherlands- 2092
United Republic of England and Wales- 2094
Republic of Spain- 2095
Republic of Catalonia- 2095
Iceland- 2095
Germany- 2097
Republic of New Zealand- 2097
Republic of Scotland- 2097
Republic of Ireland- 2097
France- 2097
Republic of Denmark- 2097
Lithuania- 2097
Finland- 2098
Federal Republic of Canada- 2098
Italy- 2099
Greece- 2099
Republic of Sweden- 2099
Republic of Norway- 2099
Kingdom of Belgium- 2099
Austria- 2099
United States of America- 2100
Federal Republic of Australia- 2101
Switzerland- 2101
Eastern European Republic- 2101
Republic of Azania- 2101
Brazil- 2103
Poland- 2104
Czech Republic- 2104
Argentina- 2104
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