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I don't see how you are going to make this stick. Suppose some politician adds a meat tax or something like that. He will just be voted out enmass in the next e
by nebula8804 4y ago
I don't see how you are going to make this stick. Suppose some politician adds a meat tax or something like that. He will just be voted out enmass in the next election and the ruling will be quickly reversed. Furthermore with the way these things go in a country like the US, that successor will not only roll back and tax he will then tax vegetables to help subsidize the meat eaters.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoThat's what everybody says about every kind of dis-incentive program, but we have hundreds of them on the books. It would be one thing if it were just trying to correct people's health, but the issue is far greater, spanning ecological impact, water rights, feedstock, farm subsidies, animal treatment, land use, etc. We will one day reduce our use of meat, if only because eventually it won't be feasible to keep farming it at scale. But the sooner we start, the better.