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Message Wageningen University for COP25 Summit Madrid and EU: promote 'Protein' Pricing strategies and UN Food & Agri action

18-11-2019

The Wageningen University President of the Board, Louise Fresco, promotes two important international food strategies ,.relevant for the Climate Summit 2-13 December in Madrid and the EU...

Dutch TAPP Coalition successful in promoting 'fair meat price' tax, supported by majority of Dutch population

17-11-2019

Last week our organization (TAPP Coalition) had a first big success : our minister of Finance (Menno Snel) promised our Parliament to prepare plans for a ‘fair meat price tax’ within the...

Dutch Finance Minister starts study on 'fair meat prices' for new fiscal reform

16-11-2019

Menno Snel, the Dutch Minister of Finance (taxation), promised the Dutch Parliament 13th of November 2019 to start a study on fair meat prices, within a new study aimed to prepare new...

PhD thesis meat tax by Sander Biesbroek - Healthy and Sustainable Diets

19-08-2019

17 September 2019 from 12:45 to 13:45
PhD Defence: Healthy and Sustainable Diets: Finding co-benefits and trade-offs for the Netherlands
This thesis investigated the association...

Discussion about an increase of the meat tax has started in Germany

17-08-2019

In Germany, politicians of the SPD and Greens made a proposal to increase the tax on meat last Wednesday. The agricultural spokesperson for CDU also responded positively to the proposal....

New Canadian Dietary Guidelines skip meat and dairy and promote plant based proteins

19-07-2019

The new Canadian Healthy Food Guidelines (2019) no longer include meat and dairy. The advice is more vegetable food and less meat, a radical change compared to the last advice from 2007....