One significant action each of us can take to help stop the acceleration of our climate emergency is to eat far less meat and dairy. But what happens when most people want to stick to their accustomed eating habits and pleasures?
A new survey of the Dutch found that a majority of them are in favor of a number of proposed government policies that would reduce the national production and consumption of meat and dairy products. There was strong majority support for interventions such as introducing a meat tax and banning factory farming.
“Many cited that slashing meat intake would bring health benefits, in particular to reduce the risk of zoonotic pandemics, a call that international experts and scientists have been making in recent months,” reports Sally Ho in Green Queen UK. “A significant reduction in meat and dairy consumption would also help the Netherlands and wider Europe achieve its climate goals, with the livestock sector in the E.U. contributing more emissions than all cars and vans in the continent combined, according to a Greenpeace report.”
Check out more of the Dutch survey responses here.
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