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Activists Say Taxing Meat Could Help Offset Environmental, Health Problems
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Activists Say Taxing Meat Could Help Offset Environmental, Health Problems

Don Patrick January 7, 2018

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  • Being Part Of The Solution
  • The Higher The Population, The Higher The Consumption

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The unparalleled climb in worldwide meat consumption has environmental interest groups considering a “sin” tax on animal products.

In just under 25 years, from 1992 to 2016, meat consumption grew by more than 5 times and has contributed to greenhouse gas emissions, global obesity, rising rates of diabetes and cancer, soil degradation and deforestation, according to the Farm Animal Investment Risk & Return (FAIRR) Initiative.

The UK based activist group argues meat should join products like tobacco, sugar, and carbon, which are often taxed because they are harmful to people’s health and the environment.

“We’ve seen an increasing trend toward intervention, especially in Europe, this idea of looking at sin taxes,” said Lauren Compere, managing director at Boston Common Asset Management, an environmentally minded investment group. She listed Denmark, Sweden, and Germany as countries considering legislation toward a meat tax.

Being Part Of The Solution

Compere told CBC’s B.C. Almanac host Michelle Eliot that such a tax is part of a group of incentives that could address the problems associated with increased meat production.

“Even marginally decreasing the consumption of meat increases health cost savings and also reduces environmental degradation,” she said.

A similar tax imposed on sugar in Mexico generated revenue that was used to install drinking fountains and accessible clean water in depressed and lower-income neighborhoods, Compere said. That, in turn, reduced the amount of sugar these residents consumed because they were no longer drinking as much soda or juice.

Revenue generated by a meat tax could be spent on improving consumer education on nutrition and plant-based diets, which could also help reduce meat consumption, Compere said.

The Higher The Population, The Higher The Consumption

But Kevin Boon, general manager of the B.C. Cattlemen’s Association in Kamloops, isn’t convinced that the money from a meat tax would go toward changing the industry. He said that pointing the finger at one commodity is too narrow a view.

He argues that the world’s expanding population is creating more demand for food, including meat.

“If we’ve got to produce more food for more humans, we’re going to need more animals, more plants, more everything else to do it.”

“To put a tax on a food product of any kind that is recognized in the Canadian Health Guide as an essential part of a balanced diet, then we need to really take a very close look at what we’re doing,” he said.

Compere argues that production needs to be matched with consumer needs — and she sees increasing trends toward veganism along with global demands for sustainable practices.

“Understanding the sustainable practices, where it’s produced, how it’s produced and by whom, is actually becoming pretty standard in terms of consumers wanting to know where their food is produced,” she said.

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