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New Zealand wants to tax farmers for their cows’ burps and farts
CNN ^ | October 11, 2022 | Christian Edwards,

Posted on 10/11/2022 7:45:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Prime Minister Jacinda Arden confirmed at a press conference on Tuesday that her government will push ahead with a proposal to make farmers pay for their livestock’s emissions in a bid to combat climate change.

“This is an important step forward in New Zealand’s transition to a low emissions future and delivers on our promise to price agriculture emissions from 2025,”

“No other country in the world has yet developed a system for pricing and reducing agricultural emissions, so our farmers are set to benefit from being first movers,”

Andrew Hoggard, president of the rural advocacy agency Federated Farmers, said in a statement that the government’s plan will “rip the guts out of small town New Zealand.”

“We didn’t sign up for this. It’s gut-wrenching to think we now have this proposal from government which rips the heart out of the work we did. Out of the families who farm this land,” he said. “Our plan was to keep farmers farming. Now they’ll be selling up so fast you won’t even hear the dogs barking on the back of the ute as they drive off.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: andagain; newzealand; searchworks
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1 posted on 10/11/2022 7:45:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Glories of Socialism and the Great Reset


2 posted on 10/11/2022 7:46:59 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: BenLurkin

More taxes will solve that Climate Crisis. yep, Mother earth will see all of those taxes collected and say - That’s Enough. I’m stopping right now.


3 posted on 10/11/2022 7:47:34 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was born into this world with nothing . . and I still have most of it .)
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To: BenLurkin

Is insanity contagious? How else to account for the election of that schizophrenic delusional woman as head of their government other than an epidemic of psychosis?


4 posted on 10/11/2022 7:48:53 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

It really is quite terrifying how much power lunatics like Ardern have, and I don’t know what — if anything — can be done to wrest it away from them.


5 posted on 10/11/2022 7:49:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BipolarBob

It’s not about taxes. They are reducing the global food supply. Read my tagline.


6 posted on 10/11/2022 7:50:56 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: BenLurkin

Ardern coke rumors fueled again.

https://youtu.be/WGxpb4GGWws


7 posted on 10/11/2022 7:53:34 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (The object of life is...to avoid finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. -Aurelius)
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To: BenLurkin

I used to joke that they would eventually tax us for breathing.

Little did I know...


8 posted on 10/11/2022 7:58:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: BenLurkin

Argentina is a HUGE beef-producing country. If they have a way to sustain that, perhaps through BRICS, then they will continue to supply the world with beef. That is why the Globalists now running the West must be DEFEATED.


9 posted on 10/11/2022 7:58:31 PM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 36 degrees)
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To: BenLurkin

This the one wagging its dong while walking down a hallway? It is satanic. It needs one in the amygdala. (I did not die by suicide)


10 posted on 10/11/2022 8:05:49 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: BenLurkin

There is no way this story is real. Seriously? The guy who is president of the rural advocacy agency Federated Farmers is named Hoggard!


11 posted on 10/11/2022 8:06:23 PM PDT by GMThrust
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To: waterhill

One ugly horse-faced dude.


12 posted on 10/11/2022 8:08:53 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: BenLurkin

New Zealand is one of the most beautiful places on the planet and its government is hard at work trying to make it a hell hole.


13 posted on 10/11/2022 8:27:59 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: BenLurkin

When one can explain why ice ages begin and end I will be willing to debate global warming. It is actually due to orbital mechanics. Oddly the natural state of planet earth is ice age over the most recent millions of years. Currently we enjoy the warmth which if brief.

PS
CO2 is plant food. When great creatures roamed the earth in the past it was a function of CO2. It was much higher and thus plants flourished. Herbivores flourished as did the carnivores that ate them.


14 posted on 10/11/2022 9:02:39 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: BenLurkin

Cows and sheep outnumber people on New Zealand.

It’s the industry they have.

Pathetic.


15 posted on 10/11/2022 9:11:21 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: BenLurkin
I have posted this numerous time before. Some years ago a Canadian researcher determined that a human male emits about 3.3 liters of gas a day, while a human female emits 3.0 liters.

I would suggest to the New Zealand politicians who are in favor of this idiocy calculate their own emissions before blaming poor, dumb cows who just want to eat and roam around.

16 posted on 10/11/2022 9:25:59 PM PDT by Parmy
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Just a test run for humans.

If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet"

Taxman, The Beatles(George Harrison), 1966

17 posted on 10/11/2022 10:00:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Kamala is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: BenLurkin

They are all so smart and they all agree with each other. The methane that they worry about is a product of cow digestion. Cows eat grass and grain and 70 percent of it passes through them as undigestable fiber, cellulose. Part of the digestion is done by microbes in the gut of the bovine. That is where methane is produced.

I always wonder why they omit the important fact that plants which are food that cows eat are made from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Most of what a cow eats was air a year ago. Carbon dioxide from air made into plants and part of the plants gets out into the atmosphere as methane. Since most people are stupid they won’t know where plants come from.

The whole thing is because liberals want people not to eat meat. It’s violence or cruelty as far as they are concerned so they want to limit it to only themselves so as to minimize the harm done to animals. Rest assured that Gavin Newsom eats steak every night that he is not eating pork or fish.


18 posted on 10/11/2022 10:17:59 PM PDT by webheart
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To: BenLurkin

The citizens need to tax the politicians.


19 posted on 10/11/2022 10:31:28 PM PDT by Irenic
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We really need to tax the damn politicians for all their farts and burps.


20 posted on 10/11/2022 10:39:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Go Brandon! FJB.)
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