So what’s your solution – mass sterilisation? And who gets to choose who ha# to be sterilised and who doesn’t. No, this is abhorrent and unnecessary. Read the article which makes it clear that excessive meat consumption is down to the rich, not the poor. It is patterns of consumption, not just numbers of people that are driving environmental collapse of all kinds. Eat less meat, buy less stuff, travel less an£ there is plenty to go around.

2. A meat tax is an outrageous idea. The government is vastly unable to spend even the money they have in a sensible way. Even their green efforts are pointless in the long run, and only directed at getting the popular vote in the short run.

3. Due to failed policy we are facing a food crisis that affects the whole planet. Since feed is becoming scarce, you will get your meat reduction. Only it will have consequences you didn’t imagine.

But unfortunately it’s growing, not dropping, So humans in developed nations MUST radically reduce meat, dairy & fish consumption to salvage any kind of future….. I’m hoping that clean “cultured meat” and Lisa Dyson’s “air protein” as well as good ol’ tofu, legumes, and veggie burgers (and other plant-based meat substitutes) will come to the rescue in the form of many more consumers relying on them to feed themselves and their families. These wholesome, nutritious, disease-curing foods ought to be subsidized while meat and dairy are taxed to oblivion for the enormous, egregious environmental costs that are ruining life on this precious planet (not to mention what they do to human health in the form of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other inflammatory diseases)….