Meat taxes
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Springmann et al., 2018 found that if we incorporated the health costs of red and processed meat into their price, richer countries would need to double the price for processed meat, and increase red meat prices by 20%
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Bhattacharya, Bryant and Couture 2023 found meat taxes are hugely unpopular
A meat tax may just make the small body problem, worse see also this Bryant Insight on the small body problem worse.
a carbon tax probably would not result in SBP: Zeijmans 2024
Alternative framings
Make meat pay VAT: The UK’s Value Added Tax, or VAT, is meant to target luxury goods while withholding taxes on “staples.” But the definition of what exactly counts as a luxury is a bit mysterious. Currently beef, lamb, pork, chicken are all excluded from the VAT. But shelled nuts are considered to be “luxury goods” and have the 20% VAT imposed on them.