need to ensure that the choices we make are really fair for everyone including the animals in the system and i think the risk is when we ve looked at the options people are proposing for a meat tax it is often purely on carbon impact which would mean that potentially we are moving people away from beef to other products like chicken which, factory farmed chicken which i think generally the british public don t want to be eating food that is produced in that way. we do think it is cruel so we would much rather have a more sophisticated financial intervention that starts with the production point to let s think about how we support farmers to be producing food thatis farmers to be producing food that is kinda and also better for the environment, so currently we are subsidising meat and dairy when we could be subsidising more heavily plant based foods. subsidising more heavily plant-based foods. louise sorry we are nearly plant-based foods. louise sorry we are nearly out plant-based f