Burger burden: UN proposes junk food tax

Published: 11 March, 2012, 16:21

(Reuters / Finbarr O'Reilly)

(Reuters / Finbarr O'Reilly)

“Junk food” should attract additional taxes, says the report from the United Nations Organization.

Such a “sin tax” should be introduced for all kinds of snacks, sodas and hamburgers in all parts of the world to help the estimated billion people who suffer from undernourishment, as well as another billion who remain overweight or obese, the UN insists.

“Urbanization, ‘supermarketization’, and the global spread of Western lifestyles have shaken up traditional food habits. The result is a public health disaster,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, as he presented his latest report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

A 10% tax on non-alcoholic drinks that undermine health would result in an 8%-10% cut in their consumption, the UN report calculates. The revenues from those payments could be used to promote fruit and vegetables, while advertisements for harmful products could be ceased all together, the organization suggests.

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Comment by suzie on March 13, 2012 at 9:20pm

they want a global tax ...   GMO food for the world oh yukkie! what a terrible thought..The UN wants to kill us all ...

Agenda 21.. Micky D'd for everyone yahooooo!! in the mean time tax us to death i guess  

 

Comment by Maria De Wind on March 13, 2012 at 8:59pm

might be better to cut taxes and dump the overgrown UN bureaucracy altogether

Comment by Nikki on March 13, 2012 at 8:44pm

It's folly to think people can be taxed or regulated to eat well.  And notice they are taxing the consumers, not the corporations that push unhealthy fast food.

Comment by Cryptocurrency on March 12, 2012 at 2:56pm

While I do not entirely disagree with the premise, I am 150% against the U.N regulating any single, solitary, part of our lives. I don't like the way our federal government or even the state government regulates my life. I'm not about to make considerations concerning the involvement of some world governmental body regulating any part of my existence.

Comment by Ragnarok on March 12, 2012 at 3:58am

Yet another fatal attack on the poor with food prices rising so rapidly that no one barely can keep track. Welcome to Russia in 80's style.

Comment by suzie on March 11, 2012 at 10:09pm

IF YOU TAKE A WALK THEY WILL TAX YOUR FEET!! 

Comment by DTOM on March 11, 2012 at 8:55pm

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on March 11, 2012 at 8:24pm

tax those test tube and fecal burgers...problem solved ;)

Comment by Nikki on March 11, 2012 at 5:47pm

Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on March 11, 2012 at 4:56pm

Proof positive that we (Americans) should leave the UN. Originally the UN was started to promote peace. Ironically, an organization that we started and still continue to pay for now  has become an organization attempting to tell us how to live and run our country.

FUCK the UN!

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