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Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren have a new bill, and a new coalition, with far-reaching consequences.
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Right! And if they were to impose the kinds of taxes that went to cigarettes to help cover the medical costs? If meat consumption increased medical coverage? Life insurance?One thing that might be achievable is that if meat and milk cost the consumer the actual (true) amount that it costs to produce. Take away the subsidies and the price controls and add the external costs.
I don't have any facts to support this but I imagine Burger King charged the true cost of a whopper it would be more expensive than a Beyond Whopper. Some people are willing to pay a buck extra for a Beyond Burger. My guess is that even more people would be less willing to spend an extra buck for real beef.
One thing that might be achievable is that if meat and milk cost the consumer the actual (true) amount that it costs to produce. Take away the subsidies and the price controls and add the external costs.
I don't have any facts to support this but I imagine Burger King charged the true cost of a whopper it would be more expensive than a Beyond Whopper. Some people are willing to pay a buck extra for a Beyond Burger. My guess is that even more people would be less willing to spend an extra buck for real beef.
Right, so the whopper is causing global warming so a part of its cost is in a desalination plant to be built in the year 2060 because there is a major drought in West African caused by climate change and a seawall to be built in London in the year 2070.