Health-motivated taxes on red and processed meat: A modelling study on optimal tax levels and associated health impacts

Marco Springmann; Daniel Mason-D’Croz; Sherman Robinson; Keith Wiebe; H. Charles J. Godfray; Mike Rayner; Peter Scarborough

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0204139

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Health-motivated taxes on red and processed meat: A modelling study on optimal tax levels and associated health impacts

Marco Springmann ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: marco.springmann@dph.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6028-5712

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Daniel Mason-D’Croz,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, United States of America, Agriculture and Food, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0673-2301

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Sherman Robinson,

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, United States of America
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Keith Wiebe,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Environment and Production Technology Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, United States of America
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H. Charles J. Godfray,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Mike Rayner,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Peter Scarborough

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Health-motivated taxes on red and processed meat: A modelling study on optimal tax levels and associated health impacts

Marco Springmann,
Daniel Mason-D’Croz,
Sherman Robinson,
Keith Wiebe,
H. Charles J. Godfray,
Mike Rayner,
Peter Scarborough

Published: November 6, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204139

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Posted by mbuggins on 07 Nov 2018 at 14:06 GMT

Your have based this entire piece on the "association" with red/processed meat and cancer from IARC. If this postulation is in fact not correct then your entire argument presumably collapses. An an (ex) Type 2 diabetic who is slowly moving from a ketogenic onto a carnivorous way of eating I find a number of your claims dubious to say the least. Also how would the world be fed if 20% of deaths were avoided and we have done away with meat as a source of nutrition. As well all know not all land is suitable for arable farming so where would all your soya beans come from?

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