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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

WilliamTuckness

(41 posts)

15. This is why we must outlaw the meat and poultry industries.

Reply to villager (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:48 PM

Jun 2014

Or, if we can't outlaw them, then let's put a 100% national sales tax on each of their "products". So if a kilogram of beef costs $3 then the 100% sales tax on it would make it cost $6.

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