Not exact matches
• Revising how
subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production
systems (and
accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production
systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..
It includes a thorough exploration of the housing revenue
account — HRA —
subsidy system.
While the entire
system of grants,
subsidies, tax loopholes and other incentives need to be reformed, a line item that needs to be looked into is funding for energy research, which
accounts for 9 billion dollars.
The ninety - nine cent price of a fast - food hamburger simply doesn't take
account of that meal's true cost — to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of
subsidies), the health care
system (in the form of food - borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.