Beneficial Elimination Greenpeace wants the rewrite of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to withdraw support for animal agriculture and instead focus on ecological vegetable farming. It says that this will enable Europe to better meet its obligations for greenhouse gas emission reductions under the Paris Agreement. Notably, this change would at the same time reduce Europe’s import requirements for the plant proteins that go into animal feed, which some politicians view with the same disdain that Donald Trump views steel imports. An unintended consequence is that it could increase the EU’s livestock product imports if consumers in Germany, Austria, Spain and elsewhere do not concurrently reduce their demand for ea...

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