Tax Meat Until It's Too Expensive To Eat

[Mike]

Meat should be taxed at the wholesale level to raise the price and deter consumption, says a new report from the UN's International Research Panel (IRP). This will (supposedly) save the environment and prevent global warming."I think it is extremely urgent," said Professor Maarten Hajer of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, lead author of the report. "All of the harmful effects on the environment and on health needs to be priced into food products."Hajer and other members of the IRP assert that livestock creates 14.5 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.Sneak the tax up on peopleRather than taxing the meat at the retail level (in supermarkets and shops), Hajer recommended taxing it at the wholesale level. "We think it's better to price meats earlier in the chain, it's easier," said Hajer.Meat"The evidence is accumulating that meat, particularly red meat, is just a disaster for the environment," agrees Rachel Premack, a columnist for The Washington Post's Wongblog."Agriculture today accounts for for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions that promote global warming," says Premack, "and half of those agriculture emissions come from livestock.""Agriculture consumes 80 percent of water in the US – most of that being for meat, says Premack. "… For a kilogram of red meat, you need considerably more water than for plant products.""Meanwhile, Denmark is considering a recommendation from its ethics council that all red meats should be taxed," Premack continues. "The council argued in May that Danes were "ethically obliged" to reduce their consumption to curb greenhouse gas emissions."The IRP report, which was released in May, "deserves serious consideration in the United States," said Premack.
Tax Meat Until No One Eats It Anymore, Says UN Climate Change Report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/30/how-meat-is-destroying-the-planet-in-seven-charts/?wpisrc=nl_p1wemost-partner-1&wpmm=1https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/25/un-expert-calls-for-tax-on-meat-production

 

[Faster horses]

What a novel idea. Like regulating coal out of existence..........

 

[Brad S]

The point of "global warming" is to release governments to commit untold tyranny to save the planet. Who's against saving the planet? Since it's already established orthodoxy the planet is perilously warming. Thanks a pant load statist enemies of liberty.

 

[Mike]

TPP strongly adheres to climate change manipulations..................That and the advancing of Halal procedures in processing.

 

[Nesikep]

Newsflash, Agriculture provides 100% of the food on the table.. Some people just don't seem to get that. They also don't seem to get the fact that water that is used doesn't vanish, it comes back down as rain somewhere to be used again.

 

[Mike]

Once an entity controls the food, they automatically control the people.