{"id":15304,"date":"2017-05-03T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15304"},"modified":"2017-05-03T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:40:22","slug":"the-economics-of-a-meat-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-economics-of-a-meat-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of A Meat Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/050317_1238_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Pearl considered a tax on meat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meat causes health problems and according to the WHO can be a level 1 carcinogen \u2013 just like tobacco.<\/li>\n<li>The farm animals that become meat contribute to global warming \u2013 in 2009 they were responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions.<\/li>\n<li>And meat is helping make bacteria more <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antimicrobial_resistance\">resistant to drugs<\/a>, leading to the emergence of &#8220;super-bugs&#8221; that conventional medicines are unable to treat.<\/li>\n<li>A tax on meat would reduce people&#8217;s consumption thus mitigating these consequences.<\/li>\n<li>They would also raise revenue that governments can use to fight the problems.<\/li>\n<li>Unfortunately taxes on food are regressive \u2013 they affect the poor more than the rich \u2013 since the poor spend a greater proportion of their income on food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/a-meat-tax-is-probably-a-good-idea?utm_source=vicetwitterus\">Vice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pearl considered a tax on meat: Meat causes health problems and according to the WHO can be a level 1 carcinogen \u2013 just like tobacco. The farm animals that become meat contribute to global warming \u2013 in 2009 they were responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions. And meat is helping make bacteria more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/050317_1238_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15307,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15304\/revisions\/15307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}