It won't work without a meat tax

After investigations by Franziska Funke and Prof. Dr. Linus Mattauch, the meat price does not reflect the environmental pollution caused by livestock farming worldwide. Meat is too cheap, according to the scientists from the “Sustainable Use of Natural Resources” department at the TU Berlin. If the environmental impact of livestock farming such as nitrate pollution, the destruction of biodiversity, but also the effects on animal welfare and the negative consequences for human health were "priced into" the price of meat, then a kilogram of beef, pork, lamb and poultry would cost many times more than it currently does . And since livestock farming is responsible for 13 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, the per capita consumption of meat in the countries of the Global North must be reduced. Because without reducing meat consumption, greenhouse gas neutrality cannot be achieved. In order to achieve this goal in turn, the authors Franziska Funke and Linus Mattauch and their co-authors of the paper “Is Meat Too Cheap? Towards Optimal Meat Taxation” for a meat tax and have created model calculations for a true meat price. Read the interview with the TU researcher Linus Mattauch: https://www.tu.berlin/go35279/