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

The 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). The EU, which plans to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent…