This week I came across a couple of articles about the new “fat tax” that came into effect at the beginning of October in Denmark. And while this doesn’t seem to be a bad idea in principle, especially for fatty fast foods, and I applaud the fact that Denmark banned trans fats years ago, I think that taxing whole foods like butter and cheese is taking it too far.
Given that the two articles below mention BUTTER in their headlines it seems clear that this is the “sensational” way of presenting this new tax.
What do you think?
The tax applies to all saturated fats equally, regardless of whether they are contained in a McDonald’s hamburger or a quart of milk from grassfed cows.
casa azahar 
I have had several holidays in Denmark. It was very expensive. I had to drink Carlsberg and eat hot-dogs, everything else was too pricey. Now it looks as if that is only going to get worse. Oh well, I will give up the hot-dogs. Cheers!
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It is very short-sighted to tax butter and cheese along side other saturated fats. Firstly, you need some fat in your diet and butter is by far the healthiest and most natural. Recent studies bear that out. It is also a product locally available, as opposed to other imported oils. Secondly, cheese is an excellent source of calcium. Thirdly, do they actually want to destroy their butter and cheese industry?
Nonsensical. taxing prepared fast-foods and encouraging restaurants to serve smaller and more healthily prepared foods and not taxing preferable items to encourage home-cooked healthy meals is by far the more sensible way of getting people to stop eating unhealthy saturated fats.
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PS did you get my email or did I send it to the wrong address again?
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Nope, no email. The email I use is at the top of the sidebar. Will go and check old addresses…
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