Carbon Tax on Carnivores ("Climate Smart Diet")

discovery.com ^ | Jan. 28, 2011 | Tim Wall

[PROCON]

Many people think with either their wallets or their stomachs. Taking advantage of that can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A tax on meat and milk would likely mean we'd buy less of the foods that contribute to climate change. And that's good for the environment, said a study published in the journal Climate Change.

"This tax is not at all a matter of forcing people to become vegetarians but merely moving toward a slightly more climate-smart diet," said one of the study's authors Stefan Wirsenius, of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in a press release.

[PROCON]

You can have my steak when you pry it......

[PROCON]

Ping!

[backwoods-engineer]

“Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among descent people.” — Robert A. Heinlein, from “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”

[jakerobins]

Please don’t let Moochelle see this article.....Barry will give moochelle the power to tax your Hamburgers!!

[muawiyah]

Stefan Wirsenius, of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is obviously one of those Swedes who HATES THE SA'AMI.

Frankly, he should be lucky they are predominantly non-violent. In any rational Scandinavia people like him would simply be tossed into the Artic 50 meters off shore and told to swim for it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The food Nazi blitzkrieg is on the way!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Interesting how Lefties' solutions to all the imaginary problems they manufacture is to take somebody else's money.

[neodad]

It is 7 degrees in Texas tonight. I could care less about global warming...

[Gil4]

A tax on meat and milk would likely mean we'd buy less of the foods that contribute to climate change elect fewer idiot politicians who increase taxes on meat and milk.

[Viking2002]

When liberals start taxing carnivores, I start eating liberals.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[RobertClark]

A note to vegetarians: My food craps on your food!

[Nathan Jr.]

Okay, someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember from my physiology classes that a diet higher in carbohydrates (primarily plants) causes the body to excrete higher levels of carbon dioxide gas than a diet based on animal products. That was why they recommended low carb intake for persons suffering from obstructive lung diseases.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping!

[DemforBush]

By this study’s logic, shouldn’t we also be taxing broccoli and cauliflower, too? Because most folks I know who eat them subsequently produces LOTS of methane.

I’m just sayin’, y’know?

[PROCON]

A note to vegetarians: My food craps on your food!

ROFLOL, thanks for livening up this thread!

[absalom01]

These people are power-mad. The most enthusiastic Inquisitor could have taken a lesson from the acolytes of the AGW church.

[phockthis]

I love me some brussel sprouts

[norton]

I think that I have a better idea, a better way to reduce the methane generated by beef cattle (whether by flatulence or just burps).

Institute a brief, regulated, but universal season on cows, steers, goats, pigs, and chickens...charge a buck apiece for hunting license. Place all feed lot personnel, ranchers, and chicken farmers in protective custody until the "crisis" ends.

Stand back:

Watch PETA and the entire progressive/vegan/left implode while all those lovable critters get blown off the map.

(/sarc)

See how many veggie burgers and tofurkies get built when there's more money to be made in subsidized ethanol.

(Next week we examine the plausibility of anything more than a dozen new (subsidized) electric vehicles being put into operation with zero new sources of electricity to support them and existing demand.)

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx PROCON & Army Air Corps !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[dalereed]

tax tofu all you want but keep your hands off my 5 gallons of whole milk a week!!!!