If the VAT rate on meat were raised, this would mean an additional revenue of €5.2 billion for the state, according to the Federal Environment Agency's 2016 calculations.
Shortly before Germany launches its “green week”, Lower Saxony’s conservative agriculture minister, Barbara Otte-Kinast (CDU), again raised the issue of introducing a meat tax, which is something animal welfare activists have been demanding for years.
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