00:00The case for a meat tax. Will it help or harm the environment?
00:05For nearly a decade, experts have debated a meat tax to address environmental and health costs.
00:10Professor Linus Matauch suggests it could incentivize plant-based diets in high-income Western countries.
00:20In 2015, processed red meat was classified as a carcinogen.
00:25Oxford examined the public health benefit of market regulation of red meat in 2018.
00:31Critics say taxes could be regressive, impacting low-income families reliant on meat.
00:39The study sparked research on optimizing meat taxes, focusing on minimizing harm to low-income households, and examining the policy's potential effectiveness.
00:49A 2022 paper suggested average retail prices of meat in high-income countries, depending on the environmental impact involved.
01:04One of the most emphasized points of this study was meat tax's capacity to generate revenue, since it will go back to the people paying for it.
01:12Despite substantial research supporting a meat tax as a tool for reducing animal product consumption, its effectiveness in actually changing consumer behavior is still debated.
01:26Denmark will tax livestock carbon emissions by 2030, starting at 300 kroner per ton of methane, rising to 750 kroner by 2035, promoting agricultural land transformation and environmental restoration.
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