Petition Meat tax to fund research for lab grown meat

For both environmental and ethical reasons, there is good reason to speed up the transition from eating animals to eating meat that has been grown in a laboratory. By adding a meat tax, and using the revenue generated to fund research on lab grown meat, we can do just that.

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Some recent articles discussing a meat tax, all noting that the meat industry contributes 15 per cent of the world's emissions:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/meat-tax-would-be-supported-by-public-eventually-report-claims-a6746866.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/taxandtheenvironment/12012836/Tax-meat-global-warming-Chatham-House-report.html http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/24/meat-tax-far-less-unpalatable-than-government-thinks-research-finds

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Date closed 2 June 2016
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