Victory for Europe’s farmers as Brussels caves in on emissions targets and eating less meat
Victory for Europe’s farmers as Brussels caves in on emissions targets and eating less meat
Ursula von der Leyen offers further concession by dropping her controversial proposal to halve pesticide use within six years
The European Union has caved in to angry protests from farmers, cutting its target to scrap specific agricultural emissions which formed part of the bloc’s net zero drive.
A demand to reduce nitrogen, methane and other emissions linked to farming by almost a third has been removed from a wider Brussels plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent by 2040.
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Producing more plant-based food is actually a lot more efficient, as animals poop out a significant amount of the calories you feed them. Hence, you'd actually need a lot fewer imports.
Producing animal products in the current amounts is a lose-lose-lose-lose-lose scenario: people work a lot harder to produce unhealthy products from tortured creatures which are bad for the environment, creating additional cost everywhere.
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So what's the point?
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You might want to check out what the EU strategy really contains.
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As if that stopped then from implementing harmful laws. Remember article 10, requiring digital upload filters.
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Article 13 actually changed it's identity to article 17. Article 11 was a stupid link tax, if memory serves
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