Is it time to tax Beef?
 

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?

Possibly, that would be one solution.

So much misinformation

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.

What a bizarre idea.

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

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

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

The cash cow?

omg :joker:

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.

:laugh:

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

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.

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?

I meant the farmer tbh as said though the costs would be passed on no doubt.

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

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

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

Let's not get hysterical.

Tax all animal products like they did with sugar

*recycles a mcdonalds straw once*