Meat taxes
“How large could such a tax be? According to researchers Cameron Hepburn and Franziska Funke, as high as 56% for beef, 25% for poultry, and 19% for lamb and pork — costs that are necessary to ‘reflect the environmental costs of their production.’”
“Just as meat and dairy must become more expensive, healthy and sustainable plant-based foods should become more affordable.”
Leftist Calls For A ‘Meat Tax’ Reach Fever Pitch | The Daily Wire
They are talking about manipulating the markets by artificially inflating the prices on meat and artificially suppressing the prices of vegetables, fruits and nuts.
Some problematic costs of farming “plant based foods”
Water/irrigation: For years the left has been screaming about how much water is “wasted” on agriculture, specifically, farming irrigation. Now they are planning on increasing the demand?
Exactly how are farmers supposed to increase the production of plant based foods without the water necessary to grow them?
I have yet to see where California has banned all swimming pools since they waste so much water.
Fertilizer
It is scientifically provable, that modern fertilizers over “organic” ones, increase production yields by 30%. The result of switching to purely organic fertilizers is that you will need approximately 35% more land to be farmed to produce the same amount of food. This at a time when the government is proposing with its 30-30 and 50-50 plans to put into “preservation” by the government large swaths of land.
Where do they think they are going to get the land to feed an INCREASING population when they are forcing farmers to cut yields by 30% and simultaneously, gobbling up additional farmland for “protection”?
Labor
The number of farmers in the last 50 years has been declining. There are still some types of fruits and vegetables that must be hand harvested. We can’t get people to work in climate controlled fast food restaurants for well above minimum wage, on what planet do they think you are going to find people to sweat in the sun, bent over or on their knees while getting paid minimum wage?
Equipment
I can buy a used 1960 tractor for about $5,000 or an electric tractor for $75,000 + an $18,000 battery swap out pack (8-10 hour recharge time) because the tractor will not make it through a normal farming day with one charge. That is more than I paid for my first home!
And they think vegetables are going to cost less?
Of course, all of these issues are solved if you go ahead and do what was done in the Communist Revolution in Russia and Ukraine and simply make all of the farms property of the government.
Then you have access to all the water, equipment and labor you need. You can keep prices artificially low and make the tax payers eat the losses.
“How large could such a tax be? According to researchers Cameron Hepburn and Franziska Funke, as high as 56% for beef, 25% for poultry, and 19% for lamb and pork — costs that are necessary to ‘reflect the environmental costs of their production.’”
“Just as meat and dairy must become more expensive, healthy and sustainable plant-based foods should become more affordable.”
Leftist Calls For A ‘Meat Tax’ Reach Fever Pitch | The Daily Wire
They are talking about manipulating the markets by artificially inflating the prices on meat and artificially suppressing the prices of vegetables, fruits and nuts.
Some problematic costs of farming “plant based foods”
Water/irrigation: For years the left has been screaming about how much water is “wasted” on agriculture, specifically, farming irrigation. Now they are planning on increasing the demand?
Exactly how are farmers supposed to increase the production of plant based foods without the water necessary to grow them?
I have yet to see where California has banned all swimming pools since they waste so much water.
Fertilizer
It is scientifically provable, that modern fertilizers over “organic” ones, increase production yields by 30%. The result of switching to purely organic fertilizers is that you will need approximately 35% more land to be farmed to produce the same amount of food. This at a time when the government is proposing with its 30-30 and 50-50 plans to put into “preservation” by the government large swaths of land.
Where do they think they are going to get the land to feed an INCREASING population when they are forcing farmers to cut yields by 30% and simultaneously, gobbling up additional farmland for “protection”?
Labor
The number of farmers in the last 50 years has been declining. There are still some types of fruits and vegetables that must be hand harvested. We can’t get people to work in climate controlled fast food restaurants for well above minimum wage, on what planet do they think you are going to find people to sweat in the sun, bent over or on their knees while getting paid minimum wage?
Equipment
I can buy a used 1960 tractor for about $5,000 or an electric tractor for $75,000 + an $18,000 battery swap out pack (8-10 hour recharge time) because the tractor will not make it through a normal farming day with one charge. That is more than I paid for my first home!
And they think vegetables are going to cost less?
Of course, all of these issues are solved if you go ahead and do what was done in the Communist Revolution in Russia and Ukraine and simply make all of the farms property of the government.
Then you have access to all the water, equipment and labor you need. You can keep prices artificially low and make the tax payers eat the losses.
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