If a carbon tax raised prices for meat, how much of an increase would be costly enough (to you personally or to populations you care about, e.g. lower income families) that you would be uncomfortable supporting it?
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Replying to @webdevMason
I think people would switch to animals other than cows, like chicken or pigs that are more environmentally friendly; Now that you pose the question, I wonder what the prices would be under existing estimate of proposed carbon taxes:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-carbon-tax-on-meat/ …
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Replying to @ArtirKel
Yeah, it's complicated! One thing I worry about is that from an animal welfare perspective, cattle ranching is arguably much less harmful than either chicken or pig farming
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Replying to @framboso @webdevMason
José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente Retweeted Rolf Degen
There's some contradictory research on that, but maybe.https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1169942896499449856 …
José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente added,
Rolf Degen @DegenRolf"Claims about the health dangers of red meat are not only improbable in the light of our evolutionary history, they are far from being supported by robust scientific evidence." https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2019.1657063 … free full text pic.twitter.com/KOg28tdZKeShow this thread2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Either way, it's very difficult to make the argument that replacing the meat in the diet of low-income & lower-middle class people with similarly satiating, lower-priced plant staples like corn, soy & potatoes would have a positive or even neutral effect on health, IMO
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