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Food Policy

Volume 97, December 2020, 101847
Food Policy

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Viewpoint: Regulating meat consumption to improve health, the environment and animal welfare☆

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Abstract

Meat consumption has increased significantly in the last 50 years. This trend raises various health and environmental issues, as well as moral concerns regarding farm animal welfare. In this paper, we discuss the regulation of meat consumption in developed countries. Specifically, we discuss possible justifications for this regulation in terms of environmental, health and animal welfare considerations, as well as the effect of fiscal, informational and behavioral regulatory instruments. Finally, we present a list of challenges that policy makers and food scholars may need to confront in the future.

Keywords

Meat consumption
Regulation
Health
Environment
Climate change
Animal welfare

JEL codes

Q11
Q52
H31

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We thank the Editors, Laurent Bègue, Loren Geille, Hervé Guyomard, Sara Meade, Luca Panzone and Louis-Georges Soler for their useful comments. We acknowledge the research program PAV at INRAE for research funding as well as the ANR under grant ANR-17-EURE-0010 (Investissements d’Avenir program) and the FDIR chair at TSE.

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