The Case for an Animal Welfare Levy Espinosa, Romain Author aut Treich, Nicolas Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-10-15 eng
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 Meat consumption imposes externalities on farmed animals. According to basic economic principles, such negative externalities can be addressed through corrective measures, such as taxation, which align private costs with the broader social costs. This raises a novel policy question: should meat be taxed to account for its impact on animal welfare, and if so, what would be the appropriate level of taxation? CC BY-SA 4.0 Espinosa, Romain Europäischer Rechnungshof | Luxemburg (Stadt) Meat Governance animal rights animal welfare environmental law Europäischer Rechnungshof | Luxemburg (Stadt) 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/animal-welfare-levy/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/218803b5d4b25152 251015 10.59704/218803b5d4b25152 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)