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PhD thesis meat tax by Sander Biesbroek - Healthy and Sustainable Diets

19-08-2019

17 September 2019 from 12:45 to 13:45
PhD Defence: Healthy and Sustainable Diets: Finding co-benefits and trade-offs for the Netherlands
This thesis investigated the association...

Discussion about an increase of the meat tax has started in Germany

17-08-2019

In Germany, politicians of the SPD and Greens made a proposal to increase the tax on meat last Wednesday. The agricultural spokesperson for CDU also responded positively to the proposal....

New Canadian Dietary Guidelines skip meat and dairy and promote plant based proteins

19-07-2019

The new Canadian Healthy Food Guidelines (2019) no longer include meat and dairy. The advice is more vegetable food and less meat, a radical change compared to the last advice from 2007....

Food Policy on Trial: Meat tax in the dock

11-06-2019

On 23 May 2019 the Food Ethics Council kicked off its first Food Policy on Trial event where meat tax was put 'in the dock'. Expert witnesses provided evidence and were questioned by...

Why a tax on meat will benefit us all

13-04-2019

Watch this YouTube movie about the convincing story why a meat tax would benefit us all and can make a subsidy possible on fruits and vegetables, to allow healthier lifestyles and huge...

Debate on health and true pricing of meat 17 April 2019

11-04-2019

The True Animal Protein Price Coalition and the Vegetarian Association (Vegetariërsbond) organised a debate on the true price of meat and dairy in relation to their societal costs. What...