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The EU is being urged to introduce a Plant-Based Action Plan to promote
sustainable diets and help farmers transition away from meat and dairy.
Climate-damaging foods such as red meat are being heavily propped up by EU
subsidies, in what has been described as a “scandalous” use of taxpayer money.
A new report by charity Foodrise found that the EU’s common agricultural policy
(CAP) directed more subsidies to the production of high-emitting animal-sourced
foods than plant foods in 2020. In fact, animal-sourced foods received around
77 per cent of total CAP subsidies, accounting for €39 billion out of the total
€51 billion spent that year.
Beef and lamb, which are consistently identified as the biggest culprits of
climate damage, were given around 580 times more in subsidies compared to
legumes such as lentils and beans in 2020.
Dairy received an estimated 554 times more CAP subsidies than nuts and seeds in
the same year, while meat and dairy combined received more than 10 times more
CAP subsidies than fruit and vegetable production."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
