Savior of Leberkäs? Söder castigates the Greens’ “increasing price strategy” for meat. In 2020, a commission proposed a 40 cent surcharge per kilo of meat.

CSU recently expressed itself somewhat more soberly on the subject of animal welfare taxes. Like the price of gasoline, heating or parking in inner cities, meat is a symbolically highly charged battleground of opinions and lifestyles. In Bavaria, test runs for parking-free zones in the summer caused some heated controversy.