Do you think meat should be taxed? Most americans already overly-consume meat and raising livestock is not good for the envorinment. Dont you think meat should be taxed so it will be more valued and to raise less livestock. I think it is a waste of resources that goes into producing so much meat so that typical american fast food places can make people overweight.

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6 months ago

msgjas, you made me think of something i hadnt thought of...you might be right. Old school, its not that i dont like meat, its that i care about the earth.

6 months ago

Im vegetarian too (since four months ago) but i am not all anti-meat. because i know not everyone can become vegetarian. This is something i thought of to help the earth, not because i want to stop all people from eating meat.
http://www.metafilter.com/62161/Plants-c...
http://home.earthlink.net/~kernels/Diss2...

I really agree... meat is bad for everything... it sould encourage more people to go veggie.

This is such a good question and topic that gets me thinking.

As far as meat goes, Isn%26#039;t there already a taxes on food in the supermarkets, (like Bohemian said) .?

***However I think that taxes should be spent on economic education.

***They shouldn%26#039;t give the huge commercial meat industry subsidies .

***They should educate everyone in the schools about how cows meat destroys the environment and the health of the people. .

*** The FDA recommended meat allowance should go down to almost nothing.

***They should show the children alternatives to meat with a large vegetarian selection in the cafeterias.

***There should be a vegetarian section for kids that feel like vomiting during lunch time because they have to eat their food surrounded by dead animals.

***They should help educate farmers how to farm without killing.

***Kids should learn not to throw away food or take food that they won%26#039;t consume.

Here is a SHOCKING statistic.

%26quot;Americans throw away more than 25 percent of the food we prepare, about 96 billion pounds of food waste each year.

The nation spends about 1 billion dollars a year to dispose of food waste. In 2003, almost 12% of the total MSW generated in American households was food scraps and less than three percent was recovered.”

If people want to eat meat, let them, but give them a chance at knowing about it first. However cows meat should be banned.