It would drive up the price of your barbecue but a global "meat tax" could save 220,000 lives and cut health care bills by $41 billion each year, according to a new study.The numbers are based on evidence that links meat consumption to increased risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes.Three years ago, the World Health Organization declared red meat such as beef, lamb and pork to be carcinogenic when eaten in processed forms, including sausages, bacon and beef jerky.Health officials have also declared that unprocessed red meat like steak and burgers are "probably" carcinogenic. Other carcinogens such as cigarettes and alcohol are regulated in order to reduce cases of chronic disease.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Marco Springmann, from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at Oxford University, estimated the rate of tax that would be necessary to offset health care costs related to red meat consumption.
"The least intrusive form of regulation is a tax to raise prices and reduce consumption," Springmann told CNN.
Researchers concluded that the UK government should introduce a tax of 79% on processed meat such as bacon, and 14% on unprocessed meat such as steak.And mind you, this is not coming from any national government. This is coming from a body with the word "world" in its name.
Normal people who cherish their liberty can't let their guard down for a second these days. Jackboots cook up ways to tyrannize us without relent.
Aww, don't worry, just try a little civil disobedience like pot smokers had to do for over half of century of bondage to the freedom haters.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it with this laser focus on cannabis?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, you're so ate up, you insert it into every conversation that presents even a remotely tangential opportunity to do so.
ReplyDeleteI could understand if the subject were something important.
ReplyDeleteKind of like LITD's disturbing obsession with regurgitation -- of both the gastric and the talking-point varieties.
ReplyDeleteCheers.
If it is not an important subject then why do pot busts still make the news? If you peruse the comments on the tired old busts the cops like to publicize they are overwhelmingly against picking on these people. WFB devoted an entire issue of NR to a favorable treatment of subject back in the 90s. Nixon ignored the conclusions of his own commission that it was relatively benign and went ahead with scheduling it in with heroin. Freedom is freedom man. And the topic is hit now since the recent election. And I am not obsessed with it and you saying I am does not make it so. But when you carp about your obsessions regarding the freedom to consume what you want, with which I agree, I just have to throw it in the mix which always drives you batty. Kinda like how you like to call women you dont like babes, toots and darlin. Just to rub them raw,hardy haw haw.
ReplyDeleteNow "ate up" ain't sumthin' I'm called everyday. Why not whip out a stoner joke now.
ReplyDeleteAllegations of "laser focus" also quite the lie.
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