Colombia became one of the first countries in the world to tax ultra-processed foods earlier this year and customers are feeling the impact
“We found that even people in rural areas who have access to kitchen gardens or crop cultivation do not eat their crops but sell them on the market,” Dulsrud says. “They use this income to pay for school expenses for their children and to buy cheap food with lesser nutritional value, which is often highly processed.”
But with current food inflation, I doubt any tax that makes food more expensive would go over well.
