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.
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.
Bro this isn’t the point and it never was.
So what’s the point?
That the regulations are unrealistic as hell and risk our food security, that killing off our small farmers in favor of a few very big ones that definitely obay all the rules and dont pay for a blindeye is idiotic. That imported food wich we need when we implement such unrealistic regulations, is much more expensive and will lower the standards of living, furthermore it won’t help the climate at all because it would be produced worse than here right now as they don’t have any regulations and it needs shipping as well.
Im all for solving the climate problem, but its not a option to basically kill off a very very relevant industry for it. Yes society definitely needs to consume less meat, im vegetarian 11 months of the year (i eat some meat around Christmas and new year to be specific) but these regulations wouldn’t change consumption habits at all.
You might want to check out what the EU strategy really contains.
You might wanna Check it out yourself.