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Nicholas D Carter
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🌲Food system science on land, GHG & biodiversity 🌎Director of Environmental Science at GCI working on: GameChangersMovie.com/the-game-changers-2/ 🌱Co-creator PlantBasedData.org
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82% of the EU’s farm subsidies go to animal-based foods that make up 84% of EU’s food-related GHGs yet supply just 35% of their calories. This makes animal-rich foods artificially cheap & externalizes impacts to taxpayers. New study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...drive.google.com/file/d/11gq4...

Fig. 1 | Overview of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsides in the European Union in relation to food types, international exports, emissions and subsidy intensities. a, Total CAP budget (left bar) and total EU27 + UK domestic food consumption and trade by animal-and plant-based foods (right bar). b, Exports to non-EU countries by income level of the importing country. c, Embodied CO₂ equivalent (CO₂eq) (in global warming potential over 100 years (GWP100)) by food category in total (light blue, left axis) and per mass (dark blue, right axis). Veg., vegetables. d, Subsidy intensity of food categories in euro per kilogram of retail weight in 2013
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Nicholas D Carter
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🌲Food system science on land, GHG & biodiversity 🌎Director of Environmental Science at GCI working on: GameChangersMovie.com/the-game-changers-2/ 🌱Co-creator PlantBasedData.org
477 followers124 following55 posts
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