I don't want to invalidate your statistic, but it's worth considering another estimate, that meat and dairy consumption account for 0.4 tonnes out of the 2.2 to

I don't want to invalidate your statistic, but it's worth considering another estimate, that meat and dairy consumption account for 0.4 tonnes out of the 2.2 tonnes CO2 equivalent per person emissions from food[0] in the UK. That's 18% of food related emissions, or 8% out of the estimate 5 tonnes of total emissions per person in the UK.[1] Another estimate says that in 2017, all of agriculture was responsible for 10% of emissions.[2] My conclusion is that some governments are implementing policies that limit the climate impact of meat and dairy production, but subsidizing alternatives to meat can only reduce demand for it so much, and there are probably more cost-effective things to subsidize. I don't know what the figures are for those other approaches, though. [0] https://www.carbonindependent.org/18.html https://www.carbonindependent.org/18.html [1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-kingdom https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-kingdom [2] https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0742/production/_105485810_emissions_02-nc.png https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0742/production/...