What Do You Think Of PeTA Wanting An Excise Tax On Meat?!
What Do You Think Of PeTA Wanting An Excise Tax On Meat?
PETA Proposes Excise Tax on Meat
From the USSA
Are you a meat and potatoes kind of guy? If you like a good burger and fries, or fried chicken and biscuits, animal activists think you ought to pay more for your meal.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has kicked off a new "Tax Meat" Campaign, proposing a $.10 per pound excise tax to be paid on meat, the same way that gasoline, tobacco, and alcohol taxes are paid so that tax is calculated into the retail price.
PETA suggests that money raised by its "Tax Meat" scheme could be "put into health education and preventative medicine." Translation - the money could be used to advocate vegetarian and vegan diets and promote the animal rights movement.
Animal activists have also asked federal lawmakers to give tax breaks to those who have sworn off the consumption of animals.
On May 30, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk sent letters to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nanci Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging them to extend vegetarians the tax breaks that hybrid car owners receive for purchasing vehicles with low carbon emissions. She claims vegetarians are responsible for fewer greenhouse-gas emissions and environmental degradations than meat-eaters.
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Just a thought here.
Asa farmer we have cows, for the meat market, these cows produce tons of muck, the muck is spread back on the land to give the crops the nutrients that they need to grow.
If you do the other equation so we stop eating meat......we stop producing cows, there is no muck to spread on the land, so we go out and buy more artificial fertilizer to make sure we can grow the extra crops needed to fill in the gap left by meat. There is a huge energy requirement for making these fertilizers, so eat a cow and save the planet!
PETA is nothing but a bunch of crazy ******* hypocrites.... checkout Bullshit (its on showtime..or youtube for that matter) the one on peta...
I think that eating meat is a way of life. Unlike smoking, we were meant to eat meat. It is called a food chain (real new thing).
Sounds okay to me. I doubt it will pass, but I'd be okay with it if it did. Vegetarian and vegan diets are good for the earth. That's been proven over and over again. And vegetarians are generally less of a burden on the health care system, and have fewer insurance claims. Might be a fiscally good move.
Just more proof that meat eater are the tolerant ones.
I dont care if they are vegetarians....I wont stop them.
But they would love nothing more than to stop me from eating meat...........now who is insensitive and intolerant??????????
Fellow meat-eaters.....lets be the better group here and support their vegetable eating..............but not their agenda
well we could start a new group called .P.F.T.E.T.O.V. people for the ethical treetment of vegtables.or P.E.T.M people eating tasty meats. they don`t realize that it takes alot of synthetic fertilizers to grow veggies also.unless the farm is 100 % organic ,tell that to the factory farms out there. and they will tell you to eat more meats.
I wish peta would just go away already they are on the same level of stupidity as Al Gore and his global warming crowd, just a way for a bunch of freaks to make some easy money dupping idiots into thinking the world is a horrible place and Americans are terrible people and only they can save us from us.
Peta is an off the wall group that has no purpose in our society. I love eating steaks and burgers and so on. if you want to be a vegetarian then so be it, but don't make me pay extra for food that i love. I already pay extra to drive, which is wrong in itself. this may be a free speech society, but when a group comes around claiming to save animals by putting hunting jackets on animals thinking its helping them but just making it easier to kill them, they have no business trying to pass more tax laws.