Innovative regulation of meat consumption in South Africa : an environmental rights perspective

dc.contributor.authorNdlela, Tokyo
dc.contributor.authorMurcott, Melanie
dc.contributor.emailmelanie.murcott@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-30T06:55:31Z
dc.date.available2022-03-30T06:55:31Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.description.abstractMeat production is a human activity driven by meat consumption, a human behaviour normalised in today's society. Human activity stems from particular psychological patterns (manifesting as human behaviour). It is argued that through regulating the human behaviour of meat consumption the environmentally harmful impacts of the human activity of meat production can potentially be mitigated. In particular, adopting an environmental rights perspective and a social ecological ethic, this article proposes the introduction of a meat tax in South Africa as an innovative means of regulating the human behaviour of meat consumption. In Section 1 we introduce our arguments and discuss the social, ecological, ethical and environmental rights perspective from which we make them. Next, in Section 2 we discuss some of the most significant environmental harms caused by meat production and thus, indirectly, meat consumption. Then, in Section 3 we critically evaluate the command-and-control regulatory measures that currently regulate the human activity of meat production and seek in no meaningful way to regulate the psychological patterns associated with that human activity, the human behaviour of meat consumption. Lastly, in Section 4 we propose a meat tax, a type of market-based mechanism, as a regulatory measure which we argue could serve to influence human behaviour in order to reduce meat consumption and give better effect to the environmental right.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPublic Lawen_ZA
dc.description.librarianpm2022en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/per/indexen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNdlela, T.S. and Murcott, M.J. "Innovative Regulation of Meat Consumption in South Africa: An Environmental Rights Perspective" PER / PELJ 2021(24) - DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2021/v24i0a7519.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1727-3781 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.17159/1727- 3781/2021/v24i0a7519
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/84696
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAcademy of Science of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rights© Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).en_ZA
dc.subjectMeat taxen_ZA
dc.subjectEcologically sustainable developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectEnvironmental righten_ZA
dc.subjectMeat productionen_ZA
dc.subjectMeat consumptionen_ZA
dc.titleInnovative regulation of meat consumption in South Africa : an environmental rights perspectiveen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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