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[eppie]

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.

I totally agree. On a national level in eg the Netherlands several of the bigger political parties have strong ties with farmers and fishermen (even though a small country like NL should focus on more knowledge intensive sectors in my opinion).
Same goes for Europe where it seems impossible to arrange any measure against overfishing etc. There are strong ties between christian political parties and farmers and fishers making this group that is small innumber, very powerfull.