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Taxing Cow Flatulence Key to Saving Planet

Posted on April 05 2011 - 3:39 PM - Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter!

Farmers who blanch at the expense and inconvenience of such barnyard menu reform might think differently when they consider the alternative — and that alternative is not just a steadily warming world. In 2010, the U.N. proposed a global levy on livestock’s methane emissions, a measure that was promptly — and unavoidably — dubbed a fart tax in the press. A similar surcharge was proposed in the U.K. three years earlier, and farmers howled — though it’s arguable that this is one case in which the tax collector would dread an audit even more than the taxpayer. Still, when the U.N. proposal was first announced, Jonathan Surlock of the U.K.’s National Farmer’s Union did send an open letter to the Financial Times conceding that changing the animals’ diet was definitely preferable to taxing the consequences of not changing it.

http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/04/time-taxing-cow-flatulence-key-to-saving-planet.html


3 posted on 11/21/2012 9:50:53 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study

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10 posted on 11/21/2012 10:22:07 AM PST by TexasCajun
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