Could VAT on meat help us save the planet? | Simon Fairlie

One of the best ways of tackling climate change and feeding the growing world population is also one of the simplestA day would come, Percy Shelley predicted in 1813, when “the monopolising eater of animal flesh would no longer destroy his constitution by eating an acre at a meal”. He explained: “The quantity of nutritious vegetable matter consumed in fattening the carcass of an ox would afford 10 times the sustenance if gathered immediately from the bosom of the earth.”T