Meat tax

A meat tax is a tax levied on the carbon emissions of meat and/or other animal products.

Proponents

Chatham House, in a 2015 report called "Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption" has called for a tax on red meat.[1][2][3][4]

Adam Briggs from the University of Oxford conducted a study that concluded that putting a carbon tax on high emissions foods (such as meat) could be a positive for both the planet and the health of U.K. consumers.[1][5]

Scientists William J Ripple et al. have suggested the pushing up of the price of meat through a tax or emissions trading scheme.[6][7]

Marco Springmann, from the Oxford University's Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food also proposed a tax on meat and dairy.[8]

PETA is also calling for a tax on meat.[9]

The Danish Council on Ethics[10] has called for a tax on meat in Denmark.[11]

In 2017, the meat industry's Farm Animal Investment & Return (FAIRR) Initiative reports that meat taxes are becoming increasingly probable.[12]

The momentum for a meat tax is not driven only by environmental concerns, but also by health[13] and humanitarian concerns.[14]

Ag-gag laws criminalizing the gathering of evidence on animal suffering in the meat industry are adopted to try to slow the growth of humanitarian concerns that could reduce demand for meat and increase support for meat taxes,[15] but they are being countered by a growing movement to install compulsory CCTV in slaughterhouses[16][17][18][19]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Heikkinen, Niina. "A Carbon Tax on Meat?". Scientificamerican.com. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Reducing meat consumption critical to achieving global climate goal". Chathamhouse.org. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "It's Time to Put Meat on the Climate Negotiating Table". Chathamhouse.org. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption". Chathamhouse.org. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  5. ↑ Briggs, Adam D. M; Kehlbacher, Ariane; Tiffin, Richard; Scarborough, Peter (2016). "Simulating the impact on health of internalising the cost of carbon in food prices combined with a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages". BMC Public Health. 16. doi:10.1186/s12889-016-2723-8.
  6. ↑ Vaughan, Adam (20 December 2013). "Tax meat to cut methane emissions, say scientists". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Ripple, William J; Smith, Pete; Haberl, Helmut; Montzka, Stephen A; McAlpine, Clive; Boucher, Douglas H (2014). "Ruminants, climate change and climate policy". Nature Climate Change. 4 (1): 2–5. Bibcode:2014NatCC...4....2R. doi:10.1038/nclimate2081.
  8. ↑ Springmann, Marco; Mason-d'Croz, Daniel; Robinson, Sherman; Wiebe, Keith; Godfray, H. Charles J; Rayner, Mike; Scarborough, Peter (2016). "Mitigation potential and global health impacts from emissions pricing of food commodities". Nature Climate Change. 7 (1): 69–74. Bibcode:2017NatCC...7...69S. doi:10.1038/nclimate3155. Lay summary – The Guardian (November 6, 2017).
  9. ↑ "Tax Meat". Peta.org. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "The Danish Council on Ethics". Etiskraad.dk. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  11. ↑ "Danish Proposal Calls For Tax On Meat To Fight Climate Change - CleanTechnica". Cleantechnica.com. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  12. ↑ "CLIMATE TAX ON MEAT BECOMING 'INCREASINGLY PROBABLE' - FAIRR". Fairr.org. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  13. ↑ Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Mesrine, Sylvie; Pierre, Fabrice (2017). "Meat Consumption and Health Outcomes". In Mariotti, François. Vegetarian and Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease Prevention. pp. 197–214. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803968-7.00012-5. ISBN 978-0-12-803968-7.
  14. ↑ Cordts, Anette; Nitzko, Sina; Spiller, Achim (2014). "Consumer Response to Negative Information on Meat Consumption in Germany" (PDF). International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 17 (A): 83–106.
  15. ↑ Potter, Will (2017). "Ag-Gag Laws: Corporate Attempts to Keep Consumers in the Dark". Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity. 5 (1): 1–31.
  16. ↑ Smithers, Rebecca (11 August 2017). "All slaughterhouses in England to have compulsory CCTV". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  17. ↑ "Mandatory CCTV in all slaughterhouses under new animal welfare plans". Gov.uk. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  18. ↑ "France to install cameras in all abattoirs after animal slaughter scandals". Thelocal.fr. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  19. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
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