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.
