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“I really do think if we could do it with tobacco it’s completely plausible that it could happen with meat,” Simon says. He is heartened by recent references – and in mainstream publications – to a “tax on meat”, his preferred solution for wrenching consumption back down to sustainable levels. Last year an Oxford University team calculated that surcharges of 40% on beef and 20% on milk would account for the damage their production causes people via climate change, while also improving health through reduced consumption.

It's time to end all animal agriculture subsidies in Canada and globally. #Meat and #Dairy industry are killing our planet and we have 10 years left to save it. Do the right thing and be part of the solution #Vegan ..Without subsidies, a beef cheeseburger should cost about $35 in Canada #MeatoNomics (at Trillium Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2y5-NXjCX7/?igshid=xw6zknun9ges

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HollandRoden: "If interested: Check out meatonomics.com Great work from David Simon @meatonomics @humanesociety In his 1932 novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley imagined a future where people exist solely to support the economy and are conditioned from birth to buy things. Government bureaucrats manipulate the sheep-like citizens with drugs and slogans to make them consume as much as possible. In Huxley’s vision, 26th-century consumers learn that “ending is better than mending” and “the more stitches, the less riches” – that is, buying new things is better than fixing old ones. But as I discuss in my book Meatonomics, this eerie futuristic fantasy – with government using marketing slogans and other undue influence to drive consumption – has arrived centuries early for US consumers. In the Brave New World of the 21st century – where big box stores and mega markets dominate the landscape – the US government uses innocuous-sounding “checkoff” programs to encourage people to buy more animal foods." (x)

Meatonomics Author Dave Simon on the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy If you’re an average-earning American, Dave Simon calculates that you give a $1500 gift to the meat and dairy industries every year, as part of your taxes. How do you feel about that? Simon, a lawyer, vegan, and author of Meatonomics, joins us to talk about the economics behind meat and dairy. Over the last 75 years, these industries have worked hard to keep demand for their products high by aggressively marketing to kids and adults, and influencing government-issued food guides. At the same time, they have kept prices low by vigorously lobbying politicians for generous subsidies and industry-friendly laws. With a knack for explaining things like “externalized costs” and “checkoff programs” in plain language, Simon will show us what he sees as the consequences of an out-of-control system, and share with us his top 3 recommendations for starting to put things right. (And although Simon’s book focuses on the U.S., he will give us some Canadian context too.)