Agriculture in industrialized countries, as it depends on high capital investment, chemical products like fertilizer, pesticides, and antiobiotics, and cheap saisonal migratory workers, is just a kind of industry. The beef industry specifically is simply a part of the fossil industry, as it can’t exist without cheap fossil fuel. The carbon footprint of meat is at least ten times higher than the footprint of grocery.

Subsidizing the meat industry is subsidizing the fossil industry. Why would any sane denocratic goverment do that?