Posted on 10/13/2022 1:49:53 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
If the “progressive” politicians in Wellington have their way, New Zealand’s cows and sheep will soon be taxed for the flatulence they produce.
It is one of the most outrageous proposals to come of the hysteria over “climate change.” The liberal-dominated government of New Zealand is apparently willing to jeopardize their countrymen’s livelihood and very food supply over livestock that they claim are emitting too much “greenhouse gas” into the atmosphere via belching, farting and urinating.
New Zealand website Stuff reported that the scheme unveiled this week will impose levies on livestock herders, as a means of presumably offsetting the carbon dioxide emissions and other waste products of the country’s grazing animals.
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The leftists are certainly trying.
Hungry People are not easily controlled
When the price of meat products skyrockets, the “progressive” government will be tossed out.
You can only conclude the globalists are deliberately trying to destroy everything. First the systematically oppose any form of energy that is remotely practical....even nuclear which has zero carbon emissions.
Then they go out of their way to destroy agriculture too in the name of Gaia worship - New Zealand, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, etc.
One can only conclude they hate humanity and want to kill off a lot of people.
it’s good to know there’s a govt out there dumber than ours..
I fear the Pinkos in charge there will not hesitate to use force to hold power. Deadly force if necessary.
“Climate change,” before that “global warming,” and before that the “coming ice age” went nowhere until governments figured out you can tax this.
Then governments from Germany to New Zealand and everyone in-between got behind this “idea” a “theory” in full force.
It is a theory, an idea where all the predictions have been wrong for 40 years, from temperature to sea level changes. It’s a theory which cannot be reproduced in a lab and all the computer simulations include unexplained variables in order to achieve their pre-conceived idea of what it should be. It’s a theory based on major assumptions and where some of the leading weather models DO NOT AGREE, which BTW is also the case with the ozone hole we were told about. What ever happened to the ozone hole?
Is it science or socio-political dogma?
“Follow the science” has become the battlecry for every charlatan out there pretending to have science (objective rational thought) behind them. Few really do.
Is the lamb at Costco from Australia or NZ? I think the former, but this silliness will affect the price no matter what. I do not view this with approval!
These Climate Change extremists are dangerous.
Australia is planning on implementing the same... saw a ‘blip’ about it in the DM
That’s the ticket.
Because we all know that giving money to the government is the answer to all the world’s problems.
“it’s good to know there’s a govt out there dumber than ours”
I wouldn’t be too sure about that. Our government is made up of people hired solely on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, and Party affiliation.
All run by Nurse Ratched want-to-bes.
They need to toss that horse-toothed beotch into the ocean.
Only humans are stupid enough to starve itself.
I bought an old abandoned farm back in the 70’s only about 30 miles from where Louis Bromfield worked to restore his now famous Malabar Farm . It would not even grow decent weeds when I got it . For the past 50 years I have ran a herd of burping , farting , pooping , and peeing ruminants on this land and now it is an ecological miracle of greenery , once decimated , but now with weeds that when I choose to let a pasture grow are 16 feet tall , and soil rich with bacteria and worms enriching the soil and holding it in place so the rains can penetrate the ground water reservoir . The fertility has been enriched by the grazing and this farm is now a legitimate miracle on earth . During the worst drought of my lifetime , 93 I believe it was , I took an airplane ride over the county to see the scary cracks over the entire state of Ohio . My farm remained a verdant green and stood out like the jewel that it is in a state that seldom ever has a serious drought . All thanks to poop , pee , burps , and belching of said ruminants . There is nothing better for agricultural land than ruminants .
“You can only conclude the globalists are deliberately trying to destroy everything.”
Nah, not everything. Just the West.
A leg of lamb in NZ is about $25 here at Food lion its $5..
Lamb used to be the cheapest cut of meat and beef the most expensive when I was a child ..
We ate various cuts of lamb 4 times a week ...
Now my family there eat mostly the cheaper beef and never eat lamb ..
when I visit now they apologize for not giving me a lamb dinner ...
Roast lamb used to be the meat for Christmas dinner there ...
Now they have a BBQ of beef and pork ...
I dont know who is eating lamb there but theres lots of them still alive stinking up the country
:)
Her party only remained in power in 2020 because at that time she was forcing lockdowns and was lauded by idiots around the world as a heroine par excellante ...
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