Posted on 06/09/2022 5:26:16 PM PDT by blam
In an apparent backdoor effort to tax meat, the burps and farts of cattle and sheep are set to be taxed by the leftist government of New Zealand in a bid to, they claim, save the world.
The left-wing Labour government of Jacinda Ardern has drafted proposals to levy taxes against farmers for the methane emissions produced by cows and sheep in what would be the world’s first green tax on livestock.
“There is no question that we need to cut the amount of methane we are putting into the atmosphere, and an effective emissions pricing system for agriculture will play a key part in how we achieve that,” the government’s climate change minister James Shaw said per The Telegraph.
New Zealand, which is home to 5 million people, is a net exporter of meat, with approximately 10 million cows and 26 million sheep grazing on its pastures.
As a result, around half of the country’s emissions come from farming, mostly from the methane produced by the belching or flatulence of cows and sheep. Previously, agriculture has been exempt from the government’s carbon emissions trading schemes.
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Yet, despite the large livestock population, the Pacific Ocean island country only ranks 74th globally in terms of carbon emissions, accounting for just 0.09 per cent of the world’s emissions, meaning that such a tax would likely have negligible impacts on supposedly man-made climate change.
However, the tax will likely serve to increase the cost of lamb and beef in New Zealand and in the countries to which the meat is exported, with farmers likely to pass on the added expense to consumers.
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Shutting that big horse mouth would help reduce methane. Is her yakking gonna be taxed?
I cannot think of a single problem with these programs...
It’s soylent green people!
Buttibutt is all in for this one.
Makes perfect sense…with a food shortage looming, tax food more! Make the peasants really pay. Incidentally I believe this mentally ill prime minister woman is the one who said words to the effect that you can’t believe anything unless the government tells it to you.
“How about you, Billy? What are you gonna be when you grow up?....
“I’m gonna be a Fart Auditor for the planet!!”
Pity the IRS guy who has to audit stockyards.
Not only crazy but stupid as well. One volcanic burn puts out more methane than all those critters put together
It’s people!!
When you tax something you tend to get less of it, when subsided you get more.
The prime minister is basically driving herders out of business ss cuz their margins are so small, anyway.
And will they tax vegans? They produce more gas by eating lentils and other gasy veggies than meat eaters. Seems logical so it won’t happen.
What does she eat ?
It’s soylent green people!
The more we see what these Global Warming Nuts want to do the more it looks like they created Soylent Green
When do the elites get cut off from everything to eat? It would be far easier to starve them and their minions to death than to comply with this bull excrement.
Whatever she wants! She'll be driven in big black armored limos with guards armed with fully automatic weapons of war, and fly in private jets, and live in huge mansions with everything paid for by the little people.
So when people eat more beans and less meat are they going to tax people farting?
Humans belch and fart. Why not a tax on them too?
Governments are going way outside their job description into a dangerous area
As bad as being taxed for the number of windows and floors in your building.
New Zealand sheep voted to become soy boys & then be slaughtered. No sympathy.
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