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Victory for Europe’s farmers as Brussels caves in on emissions targets and eating less meat (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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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.

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[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 5 points 9 months ago

I often enjoy your comments and this one is no exception.

There are communes you can buy from and there are food subsciption services from local farms but they are significantly more expensive. It's absurd that the method of farming that will not kill us is priced out of reach of the majority of people, while the method of farming that will kill us is subsidized by our own tax dollars (depending on the country, of course).

Same with energy. In the U.S., the fossil fuel industry is subsidized to the tune of about $20 billion a year, while green energy (although it does have some minor tax breaks for individuals etc.) is mostly left to compete in a "free market" a.k.a. unsibsidized. It's utter madness. Either allow a real "free market" (renewables are now cheaper) or give the subsidy to the method of production that doesn't threaten every single living thing on the planet.

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