Bacon, eggs, buttered toast and a tax!
Posted Oct 2, 2011 8:21 am.
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If you object to the idea of a provincial sales or carbon tax, life could be worse.
Danes, this weekend, are dealing with the introduction of a new fat tax. That’s fat in foods, not the variety that settles along one’s waistline.
It’s believed Denmark is the first country in the world to impose such a tax, which over the past week has spurred its citizens to empty store shelves and hoard items like butter, pizza, meat, milk and other items to avoid a tax of $2.87 per kilogram for saturated fats in food products.
An independent grocer in Copenhagen says it’s been a chaotic week with lots of empty shelves as Danes try to stockpile items.
A food industry spokesman adds it’s been chaotic for them as well. Food producers have had to make declarations as to how much saturated fat was used in the production of the product and how much is actually contained in the item.
