Meat tax

A meat tax is a tax levied on meat and/or other animal products to help cover the health and environmental costs that result from using animals for food.^[1]^[2] Livestock is known to significantly contribute to global warming,^[3] and to negatively impact global nitrogen cycles and biodiversity.^[4]

^ Wirsenius, Stefan; Hedenus, Fredrik; Mohlin, Kristina (2011-09-01). "Greenhouse gas taxes on animal food products: rationale, tax scheme and climate mitigation effects". Climatic Change. 108 (1): 159–184. Bibcode:2011ClCh..108..159W. doi:10.1007/s10584-010-9971-x. ISSN 1573-1480. S2CID 154360497.
^ Franziska Funke; Linus Mattauch; Inge van den Bijgaart; H. Charles J. Godfray; Cameron Hepburn; David Klenert; Marco Springmann; Nicolas Treich (19 July 2022). "Toward Optimal Meat Pricing: Is It Time to Tax Meat Consumption?". Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 16 (2): 219–240. doi:10.1086/721078. S2CID 250721559. animal-based agriculture and feed crop production account for approximately 83 percent of agricultural land globally and are responsible for approximately 67 percent of deforestation (Poore and Nemecek 2018). This makes livestock farming the single largest driver of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, nutrient pollution, and ecosystem loss in the agricultural sector. A failure to mitigate GHG emissions from the food system, especially animal-based agriculture, could prevent the world from meeting the climate objective of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, as set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement, and complicate the path to limiting climate change to well below 2°C of warming (Clark et al. 2020).
^ Hedenus, Fredrik; Wirsenius, Stefan; Johansson, Daniel J. A. (2014-05-01). "The importance of reduced meat and dairy consumption for meeting stringent climate change targets". Climatic Change. 124 (1): 79–91. Bibcode:2014ClCh..124...79H. doi:10.1007/s10584-014-1104-5. ISSN 1573-1480.
^ Funke, F.; Mattauch, L.; van den Bijgaart, I.; Godfray, C.; Hepburn, C.; Klenert, D.; Springmann, M.; Treich, N. (2022-01-10). "Is Meat Too Cheap? Towards Optimal Meat Taxation". INET Oxford. Retrieved 2022-01-26.

[1] Wirsenius, Stefan; Hedenus, Fredrik; Mohlin, Kristina (2011-09-01). "Greenhouse gas taxes on animal food products: rationale, tax scheme and climate mitigation effects". Climatic Change. 108 (1): 159–184. Bibcode:2011ClCh..108..159W. doi:10.1007/s10584-010-9971-x. ISSN 1573-1480. S2CID 154360497.

[2] Franziska Funke; Linus Mattauch; Inge van den Bijgaart; H. Charles J. Godfray; Cameron Hepburn; David Klenert; Marco Springmann; Nicolas Treich (19 July 2022). "Toward Optimal Meat Pricing: Is It Time to Tax Meat Consumption?". Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 16 (2): 219–240. doi:10.1086/721078. S2CID 250721559. animal-based agriculture and feed crop production account for approximately 83 percent of agricultural land globally and are responsible for approximately 67 percent of deforestation (Poore and Nemecek 2018). This makes livestock farming the single largest driver of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, nutrient pollution, and ecosystem loss in the agricultural sector. A failure to mitigate GHG emissions from the food system, especially animal-based agriculture, could prevent the world from meeting the climate objective of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, as set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement, and complicate the path to limiting climate change to well below 2°C of warming (Clark et al. 2020).

[3] Hedenus, Fredrik; Wirsenius, Stefan; Johansson, Daniel J. A. (2014-05-01). "The importance of reduced meat and dairy consumption for meeting stringent climate change targets". Climatic Change. 124 (1): 79–91. Bibcode:2014ClCh..124...79H. doi:10.1007/s10584-014-1104-5. ISSN 1573-1480.

[4] Funke, F.; Mattauch, L.; van den Bijgaart, I.; Godfray, C.; Hepburn, C.; Klenert, D.; Springmann, M.; Treich, N. (2022-01-10). "Is Meat Too Cheap? Towards Optimal Meat Taxation". INET Oxford. Retrieved 2022-01-26.

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