06-17-2011, 11:23 AM
(06-17-2011, 08:11 AM)eppie Wrote: Heavily taxing meat and fish (with breaks for the poor) and using the income for nature conservation, and energy research to me would be an idea.Just FYI:
In the U.S. the USDA is the agency that is supposed to monitor people's health, but it is also the agency that is supposed to promote farmer's products--including meat. This makes it highly unlikely that any serious adverse action against meat products, like a tax, will ever go into effect.