Jens Holm, MEP Sweden: We should abolish meat subsidies,

let meat bear its own environmental costs and work to make modern vegetarian food cheaper

Today's wasteful meat production doesn't bear its own environmental costs. Let us, therefore, build the foundation of an environmentally friendly and sustainable food consumption. The struggle against climate change begins here and now, at the dinner table.

In a response from the European Commission to my interpellation (April 24, 2007, H-0198/07), the Commission acknowledges that meat production has a negative effect on climate change. That is positive. Unfortunately, the Commission does not consider that any special measures need to be taken.

Continued pressure and development of public opinion are clearly necessary....

Source: We should abolish meat subsidies...
Author: NEIC

Link: Jens Holm, MEP Sweden
Link: Petition: Abolition of the European Union's economic support of livestock and fishing industries
Link: Vegan - Vegetarian Solutions . . .for a Sustainable Environment (VSSE