Is it time to tax Beef?

[Denver]

It is a known fact that beef consumption is very bad and causes more harm then cars so is it time to add a tax to beef with the extra money going on ways to save the environment?

[Kizzy]

Possibly, that would be one solution.

[bots]

So much misinformation

[Oliver_W]

I always lean on the side of using financial incentives instead of punishment taxes.

[Toy Soldier]

I always lean on the side of using financial incentives instead of punishment taxes.To be fair, if someone wants to pay me to not eat beef I'd go with it.

Im not giving up dairy though so I suppose that limits how effe tive it would be.

[Marsh.]

What a bizarre idea.

[smudgie]

So the not so well off would suffer the most.:nono:

[Liam-]

Put a tax on fresh meat so the poorer families have to depend on frozen, processed rubbish, produced by environment ruining factories, even more than they have to now, not a great system

[Kizzy]

Put a tax on fresh meat so the poorer families have to depend on frozen, processed rubbish even more than they have to now, not a great system if you’re trying to get people healthier

Why can't we tax the cow before it gets to the consumer?

[Marsh.]

Why can't we tax the cow before it gets to the consumer?

The cash cow?

[Ant.]

The cash cow?

omg :joker:

[Liam-]

Why can't we tax the cow before it gets to the consumer?

A pound per moo?

[Kizzy]

A pound per moo?

Well it'll be an environmental tax for pollution as they have with diesel cars, I don't see why it's so unacceptable.

[Cherie]

The cash cow?

:laugh:

Wherever the tax was levied, the likely outcome is it would be passed on to the consumer

[Kizzy]

Well this is it ... there are people passionate about the environment and clean air, and yet when theres a proposal that might put a few pence on a burger or there's the suggestion one forgo said burger to offset the effects of these beasts there's outcry :/ ....people are weird.

[Marsh.]

Well this is it ... there are people passionate about the environment and clean air, and yet when theres a proposal that might put a few pence on a burger or there's the suggestion one forgo said burger to offset the effects of these beasts there's outcry :/ ....people are weird.

Except it's not the same people. The ones passionate about the environment are the ones campaigning about giving up meat etc.

[Oliver_W]

Low income families already depend too much on fast food and ready meals. As it stands, if families know how to cook they can buy cheap meat and veg, and feed their families healthily and affordably.

How would it be beneficial for anyone, let alone them, if there was a price hike on a commonly bought food?

[Kizzy]

A pound per moo?
I meant the farmer tbh as said though the costs would be passed on no doubt.

[Mystic Mock]

It'd be about as good an idea as the Sugar Tax that nobody asked for.

[Denver]

So people want the planet destroyed because they dont want to pay extra for things harming it?

[Denver]

Only selfish self centred people dont care about saving the environment that the human race has destroyed

[Marsh.]

So people want the planet destroyed because they dont want to pay extra for things harming it?

Or rather they believe there should be other methods of going about it.

[Marsh.]

Only selfish self centred people dont care about saving the environment that the human race has destroyed

Let's not get hysterical.

[Jessica.]

Tax all animal products like they did with sugar

[Jordan.]

*recycles a mcdonalds straw once*

So people want the planet destroyed because they dont want to pay extra for things harming it?

Only selfish self centred people dont care about saving the environment that the human race has destroyed

[GoldHeart]

NO
How exactly is taxing beef going to help anything :rolleyes:

[Cherie]

So people want the planet destroyed because they dont want to pay extra for things harming it?

Only selfish self centred people dont care about saving the environment that the human race has destroyed

we will be importing beef from America soon when we trash any deals with our nearest neighbours so how do you feel about that?

[Josy]

How would taxing beef be helping the environment Adam?

[arista]

It is a known fact that beef consumption is very bad and causes more harm then cars so is it time to add a tax to beef with the extra money going on ways to save the environment?



No
not yet

[Denver]

How would taxing beef be helping the environment Adam?

It would be using the money to put back into the environment.

Meat Cows pollute the planet worse then cars

[Josy]

It would be using the money to put back into the environment.



Meat Cows pollute the planet worse then carsThe tax money wouldn't be used for anything to do with the environment, you're kidding yourself.

[Cherie]

It would be using the money to put back into the environment.

Meat Cows pollute the planet worse then cars

Don't all cows produce the same gases, so you would need to tax dairy foods like milk, cheese and yoghurt as well?

[Cherie]

The tax money wouldn't be used for anything to do with the environment, you're kidding yourself.

Precisely, we already pay green taxes, and yet we have no solar or no wind power of any note

[Denver]

Don't all cows produce the same gases, so you would need to tax dairy foods like milk, cheese and yoghurt as well?

Cows that are bred for meat have a different diet which makes their gas worse

[Oliver_W]

Why do some kids suddenly think cows are such a big problem?

[Alf]

Cows that are bred for meat have a different diet which makes their gas worseIt's amazing that the World didn't end thousands of years ago with all these farting Cows.

[Mystic Mock]

Or rather they believe there should be other methods of going about it.

This.

We already have silly taxes like the Sugar Tax and the Bedroom Tax, do we really wanna add the Beef Tax on top?

[Denver]

Why do some kids suddenly think cows are such a big problem?

Why do people think there is no problem with this environment

[Glenn.]

So cows need taxing because they fart a lot? Am I reading that right or

[hijaxers]

It is a known fact that beef consumption is very bad and causes more harm then cars so is it time to add a tax to beef with the extra money going on ways to save the environment?

Well if it looks like beef, talks like pork and has gatherings with other sheep then I Say Tax It :cheer2:

[Toy Soldier]

Precisely, we already pay green taxes, and yet we have no solar or no wind power of any note

Speak for yourselves rubbish England

Scotland has become a world leader in sourcing its electricity from renewables, after a record year in 2017 for creating eco-friendly energy, figures show.

The nation got more than two-thirds – 68.1 per cent – of its electricity from green schemes last year – an increase of 26 per cent on the year before. The figure was a rise of 14.1 percentage points from the 54 per cent reached in 2016.

Scottish government officials said it was 45 percentage points higher than the equivalent figure for the rest of the UK.

link (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/renewable-energy-electricity-wind-wave-scotland-climate-change-oil-gas-a8283166.html)

And that was over a year ago, I believe the current figure is nearly 75% :idc:

[Twosugars]

Speak for yourselves rubbish England



And that was over a year ago, I believe the current figure is nearly 75% :idc:

:clap1:

[Cherie]

Speak for yourselves rubbish England



And that was over a year ago, I believe the current figure is nearly 75% :idc:

Probably been paid for by English taxes :smug:

[Twosugars]

Probably been paid for by English taxes :smug:

Or by money from selling north sea oil, ie Scottish money

[Cherie]

Or by money from selling north sea oil, ie Scottish money

Unlikely

[Twosugars]

Unlikely

Very probable

[Cherie]

Very probable

PROOF!

[Marsh.]

Tax the vegans. Hogging all of the medical supplies with their weak, fragile bodies! :fist:

[Cherie]

Tax the vegans. Hogging all of the medical supplies with their weak, fragile bodies! :fist:

Yaaaaas

[bots]

North Sea oil/gas revenue is pretty insignificant these days, and that revenue goes to the UK not Scotland ... so its a baseless theory

[Marsh.]

So if Scotland go independent do they have to hand over their windmills? :hehe:

[michael21]

It is a known fact that beef consumption is very bad and causes more harm then cars so is it time to add a tax to beef with the extra money going on ways to save the environment?

Most of us pay to much tax as it is :fist:

[Twosugars]

PROOF!

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