Comments on: Could a Meat Tax Be on the Horizon?

By: Ms. Tokies

Ms. Tokies — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 10:22:20 +0000

Here’s the thing. Meat prices will go up no matter what since we see a massive sale of federal lands. The age of cheap meat is over.

By: Lorraine Lewandrowski

Lorraine Lewandrowski — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:05:51 +0000

We as farmers pay land taxes on maintaining large open tracts of land that provide habitats, open space, watershed protections. Grazing cattle help to pay some of the land taxes and other bills associated with keeping farmland open and in production. So, we will pay land taxes, pay insurances, and then pay again on a tax on what we produce? Way to go if you want to break the backs of family farmers.

By: Art Davis

Art Davis — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:42:39 +0000

Humanity is beginning to catch on, however slowly, to the ravages foisted upon the world population and the animals themselves from the consumption of meat. In particular, the toxification of the animals by shooting them with hormones and antibiotics, and thereby transferring that toxicity to humans is bad enough; the cruelty to the way animals are treated is yet another atrocity. But the thesis above re the effects of animal consumption and the costs to climate change should be the final nail in the coffin to the idea of consuming meat.

By: Charley

Charley — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:30:31 +0000

LMAO, very controversial subject and you talk with out facts that it is a fore gone conclusion. Yes, I believe we can be better conservationists. Planting cover crops which would consume much of the gases and provide habitat for animals and better soils. I also do not believe governments should dictate to citizens. That is no freedom. Of course world order would love that.

By: Reader

Reader — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:07:07 +0000

As long as it’s revenue-neutral, foodwise.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:39:44 +0000

It’s not just agriculture, or only agriculture. It’s also the culture of pets: there are 163 million dogs and cats in the US. “They produce about 30% ± 13%, by mass, as much feces as Americans (5.1 ± Tg yr-1 vs. 17.2 Tg yr-1), and through their diet, constitute about 25–30% of the environmental impacts from animal production in terms of the use of land, water, fossil fuel, phosphate, and biocides. Dog and cat animal product consumption is responsible for release of up to 64 ± 16 million tons CO2-equivalent methane and nitrous oxide, two powerful greenhouse gasses (GHGs)” That’s from the abstract available here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181301

By: Peggy Rouleau

Peggy Rouleau — Sat, 16 Dec 2017 00:02:17 +0000

No, consumers do not always eat what their gov’t nutritionists tell them. NOR SHOULD THEY! Eating and what to eat is a choice for heaven sake. You are NOT, NOT, NOT invited to my table!