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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
And unless I missed something, he seemed to suggest that societal pressure and peer pressure would lead to a significant decrease in meat consumption, without ever coming close to insinuating that it would be "banned" or even that he thinks it should be "banned."
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when he was quoted, "Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful
deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December
would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.
This is no 'deal' as he puts it, but yet another tax that will be solely paid by meat consumers and providers. Indirectly it acts as a ban if meat is taxed enough. IMO