German lawmakers on Wednesday proposed raising the sales tax on meat to help protect the climate and improve animal welfare, kindling a debate in a country renowned for its love of sausages.
Meat in Germany benefits from a reduced value added tax rate of 7 percent, and the idea is to raise that to the standard 19 percent.
"I favor abolishing the VAT reduction for meat and using it (the increased revenues) instead for more animal welfare," Greens agriculture spokesman Friedrich Ostendorff told Die Welt newspaper.
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