EU pumps four times more money into farming animals than growing plants

CAP scheme, which pays more to farms that occupy more land, drives 'perverse outcomes for a food transition', says studyThe EU has made polluting diets "artificially cheap" by pumping four times more money into farming animals than growing plants, research has found.More than 80% of the public money given to farmers through the EU's common agriculture policy (CAP) went to animal products in 2013 despite the damage they do to society, according to a study in Nature Food. Factoring in animal feed doubled the subsidies that were embodied in a kilogram of beef, the meat with the biggest environmental footprint, from ?0.71 to ?1.42 (61p to ?1.22). Continue reading...