Nutrition labelling, environment, sustainability

Pérez-Cueto, F. J. A.; Skov, Laurits Rohden; Mikkelsen, Bent Egberg

doi:10.1017/s1368980013000724

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“…Sustainable diet recommendations encourage a reduction in meat consumption. While the results in the literature show that a reduction in meat consumption would effectively have positive benefits both in terms of environment and health (Irz et al (2015) and Soret et al (2014)), there is also a consensus to say that consumers' dietary habits are difficult to change (Pérez-Cueto et al, 2013) through public information interventions. This paper analyzes a public policy which targets a change in the environment of consumers: a tax policy on meat and marine products.…”

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An Environmental Tax Towards More Sustainable Food: Empirical Evidence of the Consumption of Animal Products in France

Bonnet

Bouamra‐Mechemache

Corre

2018

Ecological Economics

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After fossil fuels, agricultural production and fisheries are industries with the largest impact on the environment in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially in the production of ruminant meats such as beef, veal or lamb. In order to reduce this environmental impact, consumers can change their food consumption habits to utilize less polluting products such as white meats or vegetable food products. We analyze whether or not a CO 2 equivalent (CO 2-eq) tax policy can change consumer habits with respect to meat and marine purchases, and using different indicators, we examine the effect of such a tax policy on the environment. We also infer the implications of such a tax on nutritional indicators as well as on consumer welfare. First, to evaluate the impact of a variation in the price of meat and marine products on consumption, we estimate a random coefficients logit demand model using purchase data from the French household panel Kantar Worldpanel. We define 28 meat and marine products, and divide them into eight meat and marine product categories. This model allows us to estimate flexible own-and cross-price elasticities of meat and marine products' demand. Results on the consumer purchase behavior model suggest that the demands for these products are fairly inelastic, and substitutions occur both within and between categories for all products. Moreover, using two levels of a CO 2-eq tax (e56 and e200 per tonne of CO 2-eq per kilogram of product) applied to either all meat and marine products, only ruminant meats, or only beef, we show that a tax of e56 leads to a very small change in GHG emissions, even if all meat and marine products are taxed. The most efficient scenario would be to tax only the beef category at a high level since it would allow a 70% reduction in the total variation of GHG emissions, and would be responsible for only 20% of the consumer welfare damages generated when all products are taxed.

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