A report released this week states that at the COP 21 U.N. Climate Summit in Paris, a discussion on the implementation of a meat tax to curb climate change and improve worldwide health should be a priority.
The report, titled "Changing Climates, Changing Diets," was released from Chatham House and Glasgow University. "The average person is already eating twice as much meat as is deemed healthy by experts," explains the report. "The social and environmental costs of meat overconsumption are significant, in terms of a growing non-communicable diseases burden, obesity, and climate change."
The report claims that the U.S. and the world should "increase the price of meat and other unsustainable products" as an effective and efficient route to slowing climate change.
One of the report's authors, Laura Wellesley, explains that according to surveys, people tend to believe that governments should be able to enact policies that would lead to general global good, and that it is indisputable that cutting worldwide meat consumption would be a beneficial move across the board, according the The Daily Caller.
