yes to “nutritional taxation” proposed by the Institut Montaigne – Libération

To help the poorest buy quality food, the liberal think tank proposes taxing junk food. An idea that must be supported.

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There are food divides in France. The most documented and profound is that which exists between those who can eat their fill and the others: one in three French people cannot eat properly every day (compared to 11% in 2015), 41% of 18 -24 years old are in a situation of severe food insecurity (those under 25 years old represent half of the beneficiaries of Restos du coeur although they only constitute 29.1% of the population) and one child in five arrives at school on an empty stomach.

This divide is not new but, as the Montaigne Institute points out in a report published Wednesday October 16, “in a post-Covid context and war in Ukraine, food inflation worsened the