Tax meat until it’s too expensive to eat, new UN report suggests, August
2, 2016, by Robert
“Did
you vote for these people to tell you how to live? And who will receive the tax
and what will they use it for?”
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 people. Rather 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.
“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.
Thanks
to Stephen Bird for these links “Did
you vote for these people to tell you how to live?” asks Stephen. “And who will
receive the tax and what will they use it for?”
Comments
The UN is
nuts, but will never stop trying to scam us until we cut off their
funding. They are packed full of
globalist, Communist criminals.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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