Written by Victoria Friedman on Oct 8, 2021. Posted in Latest news
Study Calls For Meat And Dairy Price Hikes To Fight Climate Change
A report produced by Cambridge University academics has called for foods with so-called high carbon footprints, such as dairy and meat, to be made more expensive in order to save the planet.
The Cambridge University-led study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says that “education” alone on changing diets towards more plant-based habits and abandoning car ownership is not enough.
The report, “Changing Behaviour for Net Zero 2050” instead suggests there be “rapid, radical changes” to pricing in order to make normal food consumption and travel prohibitively expensive.
“Interventions that decrease the affordability of unhealthy unsustainable options and increase the affordability of healthier sustainable options would also help change public behavior,” the report said, including “using taxes and other price-based mechanisms to reflect the emissions associated with different products and activities”.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/study-calls-for-meat-and-dairy-price-hikes-to-fight-climate-change/
