Posted on 11/24/2015 11:23:39 PM PST by Zakeet
As Americans prepare for their Thanksgiving Day feasts, there's an issue on the horizon that could make that turkey more expensive: taxing meat to reduce climate change.
Livestock is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, adding about the same amount of emissions as that of all the world's vehicles, according to a new report from the U.K. policy institute Chatham House. But many consumers aren't aware of the link between their dinner plates and climate change, the report notes.
At the same time, meat consumption is forecast to increase by 76 percent over the next several decades, thanks to rising incomes in developing countries that will boost demand for animal protein. Taking some policy steps -- such as a meat tax -- to make animal protein less appealing would help curtail demand and lower the impact on the environment, the researchers recommended. But wouldn't that backfire, given how much people love their burgers?
Not so, according to surveys carried out by Chatham House researchers, who found that consumers in countries including the U.S. and Brazil were more receptive to the idea than one might suspect.
Respondents thought that a backlash against a meat tax "would be short-lived, particularly if people understood the policy rationale," the report notes.
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The mods do not have access to user info. You screwed up somewhere.
By the way, all recent posts on this account since September and including these you made tonight come from the same IP address. If someone other than you made them, they made them from the computer you’re logged into.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
lol... why would they pick YOU?
Your only important in your own mind. No one else even knows who you are. Or even really cares. So what would the “powers that be” have to gain from hijacking YOUR account when they could be FAR more “creative”.
If your serious, you need to seek help from a mental health professional.
It was me. I hacked your account on FR.
Hacked some other stuff of yours, too.
It was fun.
Still is.
SeeBS needs to be taxed for all of the flatulence that they pump into the atmosphere every damn day.
I suggest that to make CBS happy everyone turn off a TV that has CBS on, imagine all the carbon emission saved
Were it not for Blue Bloods and the fact that they get nearly every Steeler game, CBS would NEVER be on my TV.
Left FR with no opus.
I’m sad and disappointed.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Global Warming PING!
FUCBS
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but, well yeah I guess I am saying it’s aliens
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