Meat tax

Short description: Tax on animal products

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] Livestock is known to significantly contribute to global warming, and to negatively impact global nitrogen cycles and biodiversity.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Nomenclature
* 2 Support and opposition
* 2.1 Support
* 2.2 Opposition
* 3 Implementation
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Nomenclature

The term meat tax can be used interchangably with slaughter tax or carcass tax. The latter also highlights how the tax might be administered - including on the import of frozen carcasses. 'Slaughter tax' and 'carcass tax' are terms that are considered to make such a change in food taxation more popular with the general public.

## Support and opposition

### Support

Chatham House and Glasgow University, in a 2015 report titled "Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption" called for a tax on red meat.[3][4][5][6]

Adam Briggs from the University of Oxford conducted a study that concluded that putting a carbon tax on "high emission" foods (i.e. foods which have a high carbon footprint) such as meat could be a positive for both the planet and the health of U.K. consumers.[3][7]

Scientists William J Ripple et al. have suggested the pushing up of the price of meat through a tax or emissions trading scheme.[8][9]

Marco Springmann, from the Oxford University's Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food also proposed a tax on meat and dairy.[10]

Besides environmental concerns, health[11] and humanitarian concerns[12] have also acted as impetus for some proponents of meat tax. PETA has been calling for a tax on meat citing the negative effects of meat consumption on human health, the contribution of meat industry to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and the stressful and inhumane conditions under which animals are reared and slaughtered in factory farms.[13]

The Danish Council on Ethics[14] has called for a tax on meat in Denmark.[15]

In 2017, the meat industry's Farm Animal Investment & Return (FAIRR) Initiative reported that meat tax was becoming "increasingly probable".[16]

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency mentions a meat tax as an instrument to achieve a reduction in meat consumption [17]

### Opposition

Some opponents[who?] to meat taxation consider it regressive and authoritarian, or doubt some of the health and economic claims, or do not feel it is properly inclusive of total costs over the long term.[18][19]

## Implementation

## See also

* Carbon tax
* Fat tax
* Sugary drink tax

## References

1. ↑ 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. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/721078. Retrieved 13 August 2022. "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).".
2. ↑ Funke, F.; Mattauch, L. (2022-01-10). "Is Meat Too Cheap? Towards Optimal Meat Taxation" (in en). https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications/no-2022-01-is-meat-too-cheap-towards-optimal-meat-taxation/.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Heikkinen, Niina. "A Carbon Tax on Meat?". https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-carbon-tax-on-meat/.
4. ↑ "Reducing meat consumption critical to achieving global climate goal". https://www.chathamhouse.org/news/2015-11-18-reducing-meat-consumption-critical-achieving-global-climate-goal.
5. ↑ "It's Time to Put Meat on the Climate Negotiating Table". 24 November 2015. https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/it-s-time-put-meat-climate-negotiating-table.
6. ↑ "Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption". 24 November 2015. https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/changing-climate-changing-diets.
7. ↑ Briggs, Adam D. M; Kehlbacher, Ariane; Tiffin, Richard; Scarborough, Peter (2016). "Simulating the impact on health of internalising the cost of carbon in food prices combined with a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages". BMC Public Health 16: 107. doi:10.1186/s12889-016-2723-8. PMID 26837190.
8. ↑ Vaughan, Adam (20 December 2013). "Tax meat to cut methane emissions, say scientists". https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/20/tax-meat-cut-methane-emissions-scientists.
9. ↑ Ripple, William J; Smith, Pete; Haberl, Helmut; Montzka, Stephen A; McAlpine, Clive; Boucher, Douglas H (2014). "Ruminants, climate change and climate policy". Nature Climate Change 4 (1): 2–5. doi:10.1038/nclimate2081. Bibcode: 2014NatCC...4....2R.
10. ↑ Springmann, Marco; Mason-d'Croz, Daniel; Robinson, Sherman; Wiebe, Keith; Godfray, H. Charles J; Rayner, Mike; Scarborough, Peter (2016). "Mitigation potential and global health impacts from emissions pricing of food commodities". Nature Climate Change 7 (1): 69–74. doi:10.1038/nclimate3155. Bibcode: 2017NatCC...7...69S. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6797ca43-0d25-4e8a-bb81-3cdeb845efd6.
* Damian Carrington (November 7, 2016). "Tax meat and dairy to cut emissions and save lives, study urges". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/07/tax-meat-and-dairy-to-cut-emissions-and-save-lives-study-urges.
11. ↑ Boutron-Ruault, Marie-Christine; Mesrine, Sylvie; Pierre, Fabrice (2017). "Meat Consumption and Health Outcomes". in Mariotti, François. Vegetarian and Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease Prevention. pp. 197–214. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803968-7.00012-5. ISBN 978-0-12-803968-7.
12. ↑ Cordts, Anette; Nitzko, Sina; Spiller, Achim (2014). "Consumer Response to Negative Information on Meat Consumption in Germany". International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (A): 83–106. https://www.ifama.org/resources/Documents/v17ia/Cordts-Spiller-Nitzko.pdf.
13. ↑ "Tax Meat". 16 April 2009. https://www.peta.org/features/tax-meat/.
14. ↑ "The Danish Council on Ethics". http://www.etiskraad.dk/english.
15. ↑ "Danish Proposal Calls For Tax On Meat To Fight Climate Change - CleanTechnica". March 2017. https://cleantechnica.com/2017/03/01/danish-proposal-calls-tax-meat-fight-climate-change/.
16. ↑ "CLIMATE TAX ON MEAT BECOMING 'INCREASINGLY PROBABLE' - FAIRR". http://www.fairr.org/news-item/climate-tax-meat-becoming-increasingly-probable/.
17. ↑ "Archived copy". https://www.naturvardsverket.se/Documents/publikationer6400/978-91-620-6795-3.pdf.
18. ↑ Bourne, Ryan (2018-11-12). "Against A Highly Regressive "Meat Tax"" (in en). https://www.cato.org/blog/against-highly-regressive-meat-tax.
19. ↑ "A meat tax is a rotten, regressive idea" (in en). 2018-12-19. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/a-meat-tax-is-a-rotten-regressive-idea.

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