The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) urges the UK government to impose a climate tax on food producers by 2025 – unless private industry takes voluntary measures to limit their carbon emissions.
In the report published on Nov. 4, titled “All-Consuming: Building A Healthier Food System For People And Planet,” UKHACC outlines that the climate crisis cannot be resolved without reducing food that causes high emissions, such as red meat and dairy products.
“In particular, red meat consumption will need to be cut by half if the food system is to stay within sustainable environmental limits,” UKHACC wrote in the report.
Adding that, “changing our diets in this way will not only help to mitigate climate change but will also improve our health: there is also clear evidence that is replacing animal protein with plant-based protein results in lower rates of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and overall death rates.”
UKHACC represents doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals from ten Royal Colleges of medicine and nursing, the British Medical Association, and The Lancet.
The report makes several recommendations besides levies on food, such as ending buy-one-get-one-free offers for supermarket products that are harmful to the environment.
“If we are to hope to limit dangerous climate change and improve health outcomes, governments – including our own – will have to do far more to improve the sustainability of the food that we eat,” UKHACC said.
UKHACC said a future tax on meat and dairy products could easily work. They point to changing consumer behaviors that have been observed around a “Sugar Tax” to limit the consumption of junk foods.
Figures have it that food production is responsible for at least a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
What appears to become is that, in the name of climate change, a war on the food system will be waged and the foods we eat that are deemed too dangerous for the climate will either be taxed or banned completely.
“We can’t reach our goals without addressing our food system,” said Kristin Bash, who led the Faculty of Public Health’s food group and was a co-author of the UKHACC report, who was quoted by The Guardian.
Bash said, “the climate crisis isn’t something we should see as far in the future. It’s time to take these issues seriously now.”
The coronavirus appears to be ushering in a new world order to transition the old economic system into a more sustainable world economic order.
As for this case, if we chose to follow down the path – we’re all going to be eating plant-based products from Beyond Meats.
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Geinghis Khan ,Adolph Hitler ,Pol Pot and Charles Manson were all Vegans.Former Beatle Paul McCartney forces all stage hands to go Vegan
In order to do the best job fighting the climate change fraud we need to acknowledge all of the facts. It is true that raising meat produces emissions close to that of all world transport. What is important is there is no climate change problem other than the politics. The climate model that most closely matches real world data is INMCM5, which only predicts 1.4 degrees C of warming by 2100.
Just the usial bunch of idiots wanting to change the world i read of some egghead Mathew Liao this idiot suggested having people be geneticly engneering humans so their total vegans or be fitted patch like the Nicotine Patch a Meat Patch Yeah this moron is a just another screwball as dumb as PETA and its liberals who belong to this group of loose nuts
Wildebeest on the African Savannah = good for the environment.
Bison on the American prairie = good for the environment.
Water buffalo on an Asian delta =good for the environment.
Beef on a plate = climate catastrophe.
Does going vegan starve one’s brain or does starving the brain make one go vegan? Chicken and egg question really, except that chicken and eggs are next off the menu.
Strand these morons on a Island with ineibble plats on it
We need to stop these green lunatics..
Funny how Livestock have been on this planet for thousands of years but its only now their causing Global Warming/Climate Change according to some bunch o Screwballs? yes the whole Global Warming/Climate Change scam is a attempt to change the way we live and those jerks from PETA will be promoting this load of Malarkey
Tax on meat to fight climate change???
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/12/16/beef-and-climate-change/