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Re:Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, ... by simonsarris on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:14AM (#15897950)
You are right, this is junk science. In the US calories from meat are down, calories from plants are up. Red meat consumption is also down.

For some graphs showing that people ate more meat in the 1800s: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/927306530600431616

Tax or ban corn, not meat.

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Re:Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, ... by tkyjonathan on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:32AM (#15898086)
Red meat is down. Chicken however is dramatically higher.
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Re:Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, ... by simonsarris on Monday December 11, 2017 @11:38AM (#15898130)
Did you see the graph? Total meat is well down from 1800s levels.
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Re:Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, ... by tkyjonathan on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:24PM (#15899061)
That is not the same graph that I have seen, sorry. And this study tells an opposite story. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3045642/
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