Along with the negative externalities from animal agriculture to the environment and our health, there are also many for animals. "We believe that the first step is to remove subsidies to factory farming and place taxes on unhealthy and inhumanely produced food," said Olga Kikou, Head of EU Office at Compassion in World Farming.

Co-host MEP Mohammed Chahim closed the event, saying that there is no such thing as a "farmer in a rural area with two sheep, ten cows and ten pigs, loving his animals and then at the end he gets a small subsidy... In certain countries 80% of [the EU farm subsidies] goes to the biggest four-five players in the country. Why should we subsidise these mega-million-dollar, sometimes billion-euro industries?"

Guests to this popular event included MEPs Anja Hazekamp (the Netherlands, GUE/NGL), Maria Noichl (Germany, S&D), Tilly Metz (Luxembourg, Greens/EFA), and Eleonora Evi (Italy, NI).

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