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.
Great Reset: Cut Down on Meat and Travel Less to Save the World, Says UK Science Chiefhttps://t.co/gfwZmDXyxf
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 27, 2022
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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Very few have a clue as to how massive the atmosphere and oceans and land really are. We are talking serious mass. All the humans and animals together are just a couple of decimal points worth of inconsequential noise. Only God has the real power to make any impact.
We are too puny in comparison.
Take a transcontinental flight at a window seat. Or better yet, a transoceanic flight. You will see very little of anything human, for hours on end. We are specs of dust, and our bodily gasses aren't even shadows of those specs.
They are using a fictional problem to control every aspect of your life.
New Zealand needs a revolution...Nice people Government as insane as California’s.
Dem Platform:
NO MEAT
NO HEAT
NO TEAT
don’t tell me, the frunt is a vegan...
We all owe Buffalo Bill and the buff hunters a debt of gratitude. With the millions of buffalo that roamed the plains I’m pretty sure that the planet wouldn’t have made it through the 1800s. The ozone would have been toast. Talk about a green house effect. That was a lot of buffalo farts in those days.
We’re going to be fighting with millions of illegal aliens for food in this country anyway so I don’t think the cost of it is going to be a relevant.
I’ll bet with those choppers she can put away some large amounts of meat in no time.
So tax obese people and we’ll end up with a healthier population.
Likely
“CRAZIES!”
No, she just came back from the WEF meeting in Davos. She knows EXACTLY what she’s doing.
Of course if they can’t get rid of Putin, all of the WEF plans are dead in the water.
“What does she eat ?”
Whatever she and her Neocon friends want to eat. It’s the other 99.99% of the world that will watch their living standards decline, day by day.
Politicians pass more gas than any other animals on the planet.
It’s AOC’s twin sister.
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