Connecticut -Help the Planet: Tax and regulate meat

Global climate change is a huge problem.

Animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of all carbon emissions;therefore, to reduce our carbon footprint and slow the tide of climate related problem we must cut down on meat consumption. I, however, believe that making meat illegal would be an attack on individual liberty and would turn meat into a black market product.

To avoid that and still save our selves and our planet, we must place higher consumer taxes on meat and highly regulate the meat and dairy industries.

This move can't be expected at the federal level, where these industries spend a lot more money lobbying for loose regulations on their industries and so individual states must decide. This can be more easily managed in states like connecticut with less power in the animal agriculture industries than in, say, California; where even in a drought 41 percent of water goes to cattle.