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Or if we started paying the actual price for real beef beyond beef would be the cheaper option. Removed the subsidies and include a carbon and water tax on food
by chickenpotpie 6y ago
Or if we started paying the actual price for real beef beyond beef would be the cheaper option. Removed the subsidies and include a carbon and water tax on food.
- siculars 6y ago>include a carbon and water tax on food. Um ok. People who subscribe to this theory can calculate the proper offset and donate to their cause of choice or, you know, moderate their food consumption to adequately reflect their opinions on food production.
- vostok 6y agoThe point of taxes is that they force people to pay for things whether they want to or not. This is nice because most people wouldn't want to voluntarily pay for negative externalities. I know that there's no way I would want to pay for the ecological effects caused by my lifestyle choices for example. A tax doesn't give me the option to not pay.
- cochne 6y agoThe point is that these taxes help offset costs that you pay for other people, not yourself. If there was a car factory spewing toxic waste into the local water supply, would you say to your neighbors just don't buy the car if you don't like it?
- deathgrips 6y agoClearly the solution is to make it more expensive because it's ok to buy from that factory if you're rich :)
- hopfscotch2 6y agoClassic tech jock libertarian idiocy. Let me guess, you are also against income and estate tax?
- mc32 6y agoI’ve visited countries where there aren’t the big ag subsidies and whatnot. People still eat meat. Not to the degree we do in the US, but it’s not “unattainably” expensive and most people will consume some kind of meat with their meals —not 20oz or whatever, but they eat a “healthy” amount.
- gamblor956 6y agoBeef is actually even cheaper in most countries without subsidies...