pete. what do you think a meat tax? pete: ethics a winner. tell every american go backwards and pay more for the thing they enjoy the most. predictable and makes no sense to me. as i said before climate change is the religion of the left. if you believe our world is going to end in 12 years and bigger threat than world war ii. to them it s like a war everyone has got to pay to chip in to defeat the weather and so in this particular case, a meat tax makes sense, of course. this is how you invest in saving the planet. the hypocrisy knows no bounds. which brings us and we want your comments on this by the way. email us at friends@foxnews.com. what do you make of a meat tax? is that a good idea? does that make you want to vote for uncle bernie? it leads us to this next story which shows the hypocrisy of the push to combat climate change. there is a 16-year-old climate activist. her name is greta thunberg leading a protest united nations before the u.n. general assembly. she didn t want t
healthcare. and it is not. if you thought bernie was done, oh, you are incorrect jed and pete. people who are going to pay more actually real money are the farmers, and that s because bernie sanders is signaling he is open to you guessed it a meat tax to combat climate change. here s what he had to say about that. as you probably know, animal agriculture is to blame for the majority of climate change. what do you plan on doing to ensure that americans limit their consumption of animal products? germany has imposed a meat tax in hopes of limiting this consumption. what are your plans? all i can say is if we believe as i do and you do, that climate change is real, we re going to have to tackle it in every single area, including agriculture. so we will certainly you are right. we have got to look at agriculture and look at every cause of the crisis that we face. jedediah: we both looked at
mark: keep watching these guys, lisa, for us because no normal person does. bill de blasio had 15 people at his iowa state fair. i could get more than 50, i m not even eligible to run. is that an announcement? mark: that is an announcement. thank you for that. german lawmakers considering invoking a meat tax on their citizens. while the left bring that to america next? that s just ahead. and then, tucker carlson puts down the fishing rod and joins us for a special segment. all coming up. [upbeat music]
compared to what we are putting in. the resource waste is incredible. when you look at the fact that actually we have alternatives now like the beyond burger that has the taste of meat, the texture of meat, they are delicious and their impact on the environment is so much lower. why would we deal with these industries that are dirty and outdated, not to mention cruel when we have better options? mark: isn t it because it s a popular taste? you look at the big chains here. burger king, mcdonald s, wendy s, and that s the other point here. isn t this a regressive tax? the people who like, you know, arugula on a bed of a rule ago a are they elites at the fancy salad restaurants in beverly hills and martha s vineyard and then it s the man in the street was getting a burger at lunch. so this meat tax would be a regressive tax on the poorest people in society. first of all, the man on the street is looking for a
in germany, lawmakers have introduced a bill that would increase by 90% value-added tax to all the meat in the country. and in the united kingdom, goldsmith university in london has banned all beef, all burgers in the name of the planet. make no mistake. if there are people who want to do the same thing in america, until we all have to get our protein by eating mealworms and grasshoppers. i love a grasshopper this time in the evening. ashley byrne is associate director of peta. if she us. peta actually is in favor of a meat tax, is that correct? well, peta has been an advocate for a meat tax for many years because of the fact that we already have similar taxes on products like soda, cigarettes and alcohol for their effect on human health, and we have a similar tax on products that are