ABSURD: Dutch speakers call for “meat tax” on farmers due to “damage to climate” at COP29 conference

Two speakers from the Netherlands who took to the podium during the COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan have called for the imposition of a "meat tax" on farmers due to the "damage to climate" they allegedly cause.

Jeroom Remmers, director of the Amsterdam-based True Animal Protein Price Coalition (TAPP), made this remark during the two-day conference that ended Tuesday, Nov. 12.

"Climate change is caused 20 percent by meat and dairy, so the producers of meat and dairy should pay for the damage they cause. It's normal [that] when I damage the window of my neighbor, I have to repair this damage. But meat and dairy processors also have to repair the damage they cause to others and in the future," he said.

Remmers added that some of the collected taxes from meat and dairy producers could be returned to consumers "to reduce prices of healthy foods like vegetables, fruits and plant-based meat," alongside "loss and damage funds."

TAPP Public Affairs and Policy Officer Willem Branten also took the stage, echoing the remarks of his boss Remmers. He explained why his organization wants "to make the polluter pay."

"We believe that COP29 and the UNFCCC [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] conferences thereafter can only be successful if the closing statement includes transitioning away from animal protein over-consumption according to national or global dietary guidelines by implementing greenhouse gas emission pricing mechanisms in agri-food systems," he said....<<<Read More>>>...