Meat Tax Crucial, Says Analysis, to Combat Climate Crisis and Global Health Threats

(Todd Allen) #1

https://commons.commondreams.org/t/meat-tax-crucial-says-analysis-to-combat-climate-crisis-and-global-health-threats/47464

Note, I’m NOT endorsing this, just thought it worthy of attention…

(G. Andrew Duthie) #2

I have two words:

Hell.

No.

(Zack F) #3

(sarcasm) Make it more expensive for poor people to get healthy fats and protein. There ya go! After all there is no growing diabetes problem in the third world. (/sarcasm)

(Damon Chance) #4

Comments are like a painful sore in your brain…

Hack pieces like what the health are poisoning the minds of many.

(VLC.MD) #5

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Meat causes obesity ?
I don’t think so.
Meat causes diabetes ?
Just crazy talk.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #6

Peter Ballerstedt is an agronomist with a very different take on all this. For one thing, he is calling for a move away from the factory farming of meat to a more ethical and sustainable system. For another, he has the scientific data on both the ecological and the health benefits of meat production. He has also looked into the economics of the food-production system and, at least here in America, grain production is much more heavily subsidized than meat production.

(Zack F) #7

While confessing my libertarian biases, it goes to show how ugly and coercive some of those folks are.

(Christopher Avery) #8

I’ve been wondering about the ketopolitics of cow farts.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

They don’t produce nearly as much methane if they eat grass (which is their natural diet) as when they are fed grain (which is not their natural diet).