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EU spends €71m promoting meat, despite climate goals

The European Union has allocated around €71.5m in the past three years on programmes promoting European meat — raising questions about such spending's compatibility with the bloc's stated climate ambitions.

Meat and dairy are emissions-intensive when compared to vegetables and fruit, with carnivore diets leading to roughly double the amount of a vegetarian's greenhouse gas emissions.

With the increasing middle classes in countries like China and India, global meat consumption is e...

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