Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions?

Re:Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions? by kypro on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:53AM (#26749329)

Why don't we tax meat more given it really should be considered a luxury and that it's so expensive when you consider the damage it inflicts in the form of global warming?

Is it simply that politically it would be extremely controversial to raise taxes on meat? In Europe we have very high taxes on petrol and petrol is universally used. It could also be argued that its use is beneficial to economic productivity too, yet that seems to be accepted by most people. So why can't we do the same for meat?

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Re:Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions? by adrianN on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:20AM (#26749588)

Imho we just need a carbon tax levied directly where the fuels are dug out of the soil that ramps up for a couple of years until we can make it equal to the price of carbon sequestration. That doesn't account for things like Methane from livestock, but it's a step in the right direction and politically much easier than taking away meat from people.

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Re:Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions? by elil17 on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:00AM (#26751382)

It wouldn't even be that hard to account for methane from livestock. We've got really got GHG monitoring technology which could audit farms.

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