How can we get the government to accept the meat tax proposal?!
How can we get the government to accept the meat tax proposal?
As we all know, the meat & dairy diet is the number one cause of death. Car crashes, suicides, etc. all put together don't even come close to the number of deaths caused by the meat and dairy industry.
I have been volunteering my time to helping PETA with this new proposal. In summary, it would tax those responsible, the meat eaters. I have been writing letter after letter after letter trying to reach key people in getting this approved. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can get the government to accept the "tax on meat"?
1 week ago
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1 week ago
Philo42 & nymike93, I have reported you both to Yahoo! Answers.
Right, now you have really pissed me off, PETA are the biggest shower of charlatans in the business, and I can back that statement up with first hand knowledge of the damage and suffering they have caused to animals in their so called crusades.
I have seen photographs that they have 'constructed' mainly from third world countries showing abhorrent scenes of animal cruelty, in one case a trailer full of dead cats and dogs piled high showing how badly these animals had been treated by their owners.
The facts were that the trailer concerned was carrying the corpses of animals found on the roadside that had been cleared by the local authorities.
Or how about the laboratory that was broken into and ransacked causing many thousands of pounds worth of damage to equipment, only to subsequently reveal that the lab was a development site for human toxicology and had nothing to do with animals in any way shape or form.
This incidentally led to a shortage of immunisation and AIDS drugs as the lab was not able to produce for many weeks.
Was there ever an apology? no way.
In this instance I find your post offensive, and I have reported YOU!!!.
i am with PETA too and i have been curious about this too! i hope we get some good answers. Letters do not always work you need a petition. Rebel
It'll never happen ya' bunny huggin' froot loop...
You can wait for hell to freeze over. Pretty much you will have better odds of a syphalitic weasel winning the democratic nomination before that pipe dream happens.
ummm hmmmm.......
You do realise of course that 4 of the essential 22 amino acids that make life functional within the human body come from animals and animal produce? The amino acids that your body Cannot synthesise?
Without eating mean and animal produce- life expectancy is shortly past 13.
Bad rate and report all you like. this is scientific fact. 4 amino acids the are required in the human body are ABSENT in plant and vegetable matter that have not been genetically modified. The only possible way round this would be to eat bacteria.
Ahh Ashley. Thanks for injecting a little radicalism into the conversation. Please keep fighting the hard fight and pressing as much as you can. Us meat eaters need people like you.
go and eat your veggies in the asylum thats where vegtables belong!!! bet you"ll report me to y/a now
Right now i am disgusted to be a vegetarian.
I hope when you present your proposal you get laughed at.
Tax on meat?? Come on, the first of April was months ago.
I've got a better idea. A tax on potatoes and cooking oil so it gets too expensive to keep eating chips all the time. That sort of food is the real culprit. People today get far more fat in the form of vegetable oil than they get from meat. Years ago, when it was the other way round, some of the main diseases affecting us today were hardly ever heard of. What does that tell you about healthy and unhealthy food?
i donno all ino is that i love me some ribz baby hahahaha
I thought smoking was the #1 cause of cancer related deaths.
You'll never get a meat tax.
i'm vegan myself but...more taxes is definetly something we don't need, even if it doesn't apply to others like me. Things like this don't get approved because I'm pretty sure that many members of the government are not vegeterian or vegan.
If you want change, this is not the way to go about it. You can't just go up to the man and say, hey tax the people who eat meat because "the people" are the majority and the majority rules. That may seem like I'm saying the minority can't change anything but when it comes to something like this...it's just...not good.
And to blame other people's death due to their diet on other people of the same diet...I don't see the sense in that.
Maybe you should think of a better proposal, like something to do with better treatment of animals in slaughterhouses or like something about the protection of animals being tested on.
Something like that...
Ashley my dear, think about it.
They haven't banned smoking which causes thousands deaths each year. Why? Because the vest majority of the cost of a pack of cigarettes is tax in the government's pocket. The meat and dairy industry will also pay a huge amount of tax, not to mention the further tax you pay when you buy it. They'll also be forking out massive back-handers to keep the results of certain research under wraps which prove the dangers of eating meat and dairy excessively.
Get this into your head. The government doesn't give a toss how many people die as a result of their own lifestyle choices, as long as they're making money at the same time.
LMAO at you Ashley!!!!!!!!!!
tax on meat lol whats next TAXING MEAT FOR STARVING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD.
little and I am sure a none interesting fact for you every 40 seconds around the world a child dies due to malaria..
Let me guess these disease carrying insect's are just misunderstood beings who also need love and protection like your way of thinking leads us to believe,,,,, you sick little Muppet
I suggest next time you are at the zoo please feel free to jump into a lions den and try to tell it to stop killing helpless animals.
Grow up or better still go away
I think you just need to keep writing the letters.
With a bit of luck you will not have any more time to come into YA
Think i agree with Res again,
I see Randathamane is peddling the "essential" crap again. Can't be that essential if i've been veggie for 27 years without meat.
Oh no, wait, your right, i'm actually dead, who would of thought that !
There are many benefits to a diet containing meat. Many vegetarians claim that meat is unhealthy. This is a blatant fallacy.
It is well established that eating meat improves the quality of nutrition, strengthens the immune system, promotes normal growth and development, is beneficial for day-to-day health, energy and well-being, and helps ensure optimal learning and academic performance.
A long term study found that children who eat more meat are less likely to have deficiencies than those who eat little or no meat. Kids who don’t eat meat ― and especially if they restrict other foods, as many girls are doing ― are more likely to feel tired, apathetic, unable to concentrate, are sick more often, more frequently depressed, and are the most likely to be malnourished and have stunted growth. Meat and other animal-source foods are the building blocks of healthy growth that have made America’s and Europe's youngsters the tallest, strongest and healthiest in the world.
Meat is an important source of quality nutrients, heme iron, protein, zinc and B-complex vitamins. It provides high-quality protein important for kids’ healthy growth and development.
The iron in meat (heme iron) is of high quality and well absorbed by the body, unlike nonheme iron from plants which is not well absorbed. More than 90 percent of iron consumed may be wasted when taken without some heme iron from animal sources. Substances found to inhibit nonheme iron absorption include phytates in cereals, nuts and legumes, and polyphenolics in vegetables. Symptoms of iron deficiency include fatigue, headache, irritability and decreased work performance. For young children, it can lead to impairment in general intelligence, language, motor performance and school readiness. Girls especially need iron after puberty due to blood losses, or if pregnant. Yet studies show 75 percent of teenage girls get less iron than recommended.
Meat, poultry and eggs are also good sources of absorbable zinc, a trace mineral vital for strengthening the immune system and normal growth. Deficiencies link to decreased attention, poorer problem solving and short-term memory, weakened immune system, and the inability to fight infection. While nuts and legumes contain zinc, plant fibre contains phytates that bind it into a nonabsorbable compound.
Found almost exclusively in animal products, Vitamin B12 is necessary for forming new cells. A deficiency can cause anaemia and permanent nerve damage and paralysis. The Vitimin B12 in plants isn't even bioavailable, meaning our body can't use it.
Why not buy food supplements to replace missing vitamins and minerals? Some people believe they can fill those gaps with pills, but they may be fooling themselves. Research consistently shows that real foods in a balanced diet are far superior to trying to make up deficiencies with supplements.
Lets not forget either that protein, while it is found in plants, is better quality in animal products.
Some people claim that meat is unhealthy because it contains saturated fat. So does margarine and olive oil, and they're vegan suitable (in fact the hydrogenated fats in Marge can be very bad, but that's another story). Besides, any excess calories in your diet, any excess sugar, starch or carbohydrates are stored in your body for later use. This is done by turning them into saturated fats.
Cholesterol too. Your body on average creates four to five times more cholesterol than the average person consumes, and compensates by creating more when less is consumed. Cholesterol isn't evil, it is essential; it makes up the waterproof linings of all our cells and without it we would die. Too much can be bad, but as with saturated fats there are more healthy ways of disposing of it, like regular exercise. Anyway, it isn't so much how much cholesterol you eat, but how well yur body handles it. A person who eats loads of dietary cholesterol and leads an unhealthy lifestyle can still have low cholesterol, and vice versa. Most people's bodies are able to take a large amount of cholesterol without getting atherosclerosis. For this reason that eating meat gives you heart disease is very misleading, and for the most part untrue. Of course, if you do have a problem eating loads isn't a good idea, but for most people there is nothing at all to worry about. That's why 80% of sufferers of heart diseae are retired: their bodies don't work as well any more.
Some people also claim that we aren't designed by evolution, to eat meat. They claim that our digestive system is quite long and that we produce amylase, a starch splitting catabolic enzyme, akin to herbivores and unlike carnivores. Apparently this clearly shows that we were designed to eat plants. Such people should go and look up 'omnivore' in a dictionary. They have also been known to cite other reasons we are like herbivores and unlike carnivores: that we suck water instead of lapping it, and that we perspire through our skin, such things have nothing at all to do with whether or not we were designed to eat meat, and nothing to do with how our body handles food. I might as well say that because we, like most carnivores and unlike most herbivores, have eyes that face forwards, we must be carnivorous. Of course, that's not true for precisely the same reason.
The fact is Humans are omnivores, with the ability to eat nearly everything. By preference, prehistoric people ate a high-protein, high-mineral diet based on meat and animal sources, whenever available. Their foods came mainly from three of the five food groups: meat, vegetables and fruits. As a result, big game mammoth hunters were tall and strong with massive bones. They grew six inches taller than their farming descendants in Europe, who ate mostly plant foods, and only in recent times regained most of this height upon again eating more meat, eggs and dairy foods. We are adapted to eat meat, and it is just as natural as eating plants.
Some also claim that the digestion of meat releases harmful byproducts into our system. This is true, however such are our adaptations to eating meat that our bodies are quite able to dispose of said products without any adverse effects.
So, in summary: it isn't healthier to avoid meat. You can be healthy without meat, but likely not as healthy as if you did, assuming you kept things like the wide range of fruit and veg that a veggie diet usually entails. Too much meat can be bad, but normal amounts are no problem at all. Any health benefits that come from a veggie diet come from a wide range of fruit and veg, and being health conscious, as veggies often are; that doesn't require you to not eat meat.
I don't think a vegeterian diet benefits anyone in any way better than a better meat eating diet could at all. If you have no ethical qualms, it's quite pointless. PETA will tell you otherwise, but they have very strong ethical opinions, and mould their 'evidence' around it. There is, for example, some evidence that vegans live longer and are at less risk from cancer and heart disease; however those studies show only a very marginal and insignificant difference and none of those studies have yet managed to identify meat as the only variable. Veggies are less likely to smoke, drink or eat junk food, and eat a wider range of fruit and veg, making the test results inaccurate and unreliable.
In Canada there already is a hidden meat tax in meat products.. that's one of the reasons it's so expensive. Another tax on top of one that's already included? Well it don't matter as I don't eat meat anyhow. The government has doubled taxed Canadians with GST a goods and service tax and what the heck was the taxes that aren't called GST they were to do with Goods and Service so that tax already was there.. It's a double up! Politicians if they keep any of their promises it's only about 1% of them! if I were Prime Minister I'd highly tax all the Abators.. and all the farms that abuse animals!
What business is it of yours what people eat? Where do you get your dodgy statistics from? Why don't you meddling busybodies get a life of your own and leave the rest of us who have lives, live them. Lets put a tax on vegetarians because they're not supporting farmers and the meat industry.