Maybe the solution will be to give the extra-extra-extra-large version of these pills to all your cows, to help regulate the quantity and volume of expelled gas by the stinky beasts.
Posted on 11/29/2016 9:02:54 PM PST by rhett october
California’s desire to combat so-called global warming has led it to attack what it believes is deadly even if it is often silent – cow flatulence.
According to an AP report, the self-proclaimed leading agricultural state is now focusing on what it calls “greenhouse gases” produced by dairy cows.
In spite of opposition from farmers, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that regulates heat-trapping gases from livestock businesses for the first time.
Cattle and other farm animals produce methane, a gas that is referred to as a greenhouse gas and alleged to be more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas. Methane is released when cows belch, pass gas, and make manure.
“If we can reduce emissions of methane, we can really help to slow global warming,” said Ryan McCarthy, of the California Air Resources Board, which is drawing up rules for the new law.
Livestock are said to be responsible for 14.5 percent of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2013 United Nations report.
Since passage of its global warming law in 2006, California has been reducing carbon emissions from automobiles, homes and factories.
The new California law aims to reduce methane emissions from dairies and livestock businesses to 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030, McCarthy said.
One way the state plans to reduce the amount of gas passed by cows is in requiring farmers to feed them a specific diet designed to produce less gas.
State regulators also want more farmers to reduce emissions with what are called methane digesters, which use storage tanks to capture methane from manure and convert the gas into electricity.
Farmers are decrying the added expense in what is already one of the most expensive states in the country to do business and in a year when drought has caused even greater expense than usual.
“The bottom line is it’s going to negatively impact the economics of the California dairy industry,” said Arlin Van Groningen, a third-generation farmer. “In the dairy business, the margins are so slim that something like this will force us out of the state."
The cattle industry, a major component of California’s economy since it was a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, will be going away.
Things will be given to the cows to reduce flatulence.
In a few years we will hear what it is doing to the milk, and the people who drink it, particularly the kids that need it most.
The Left never thinks out their outlandish pipe dreams.
Nice article and post. Good job!
” I want the Flat Tax, not the Fart Tax”
Flat ulence Tax ?
And yet California wants to be taken seriously....
Enviros vs Mexicans. This should be interesting
Cowafartnia
Figures.
Cows are more intelligent than California officials.
Typical LibProg pols, taxing cow flatulence but exempting their own.
From what I’ve witnessed that’s a certainty.
And the millio s of buffalo that use to roam didnt fart?
As a lifelong resident of California it is beyond my comprehension as to how so many idiots have climbed the ladder of power, wealth and influence to such lofty heights and obtained so much power and not killed themselves by falling off the ladder on their way up. It is truly a mad, mad, mad world.
>Cattle and other farm animals produce methane, a gas that is referred to as a greenhouse gas and alleged to be more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas.<
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Methane is the gas of the future and we got yuuuuuge deposits of it in the ground and on the sea bottom in the form of methane hydrates. It is clean burning and can be used in power plants, home heating and transportation fuel. We convert it into LNG and the world will be knocking on our Pacific and Atlantic doors begging us for an unlimited supply. It will truly MAGA until we’re sick of our $ucce$$.
That’s why just about everywhere in Texas has air conditioning.
Time to move.
and so it begins- now food is going to be too expensive for low income people to afford- so guess what? They are going to have to resort to eating beans- Yes, that’s right= cheap as dirt beans- which of course cause people to fart- then California is going to step up and start charging people for farting- so they won’t be able to even afford beans now- and they will die- releasing carbon into the ground- causing higher CO2 in atmosphere eventaully- so these people’s children will be charged for their late parent’s carbon creation-
Will the madness never end?
But seriously- this will become a federal tax as soon as a democrat takes office again-
Farmers in Cali could, if they had any guts- refuse to pay- What is brown goign to do? Throw them all in prison?
[[And the millio s of buffalo that use to roam didnt fart?]]
No they used beano
First the Death Tax, now the Meth Tax.
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