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A 'fat tax' to tackle obesity?

RELATED TOPICS > Food poverty
The Ecologist
Published: 4 March 2010

Research by the University of Buffalo suggests that a tax on unhealthy food is more effective at changing consumer behaviour than subsidising healthy food. Responding in the Ecologist, Tom MacMillan points out that such a scheme would unfairly hit society’s poorest people.

You can read the Ecologist article here.

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