The environmental impacts of meat consumption could be rapidly and cheaply reduced if governments applied full VAT on products such as beef, pork, lamb and chicken, a study has shown. Depending on how the additional tax revenues were redistributed, such a change could cost households as little as €26 (£23) a year, while cutting ecological destruction by between 3% and 6%, the paper found. Animal-based products have the biggest share of the EU’s ecological footprint related to household diet, which is responsible for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, more than half of biodiversity loss and phosphorus pollution, and
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