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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I visited NZ not too many years ago.
2 Islands; creatively named “North” and “South” Islands. I spent my time in the less populated, more natural beauty of South Island.
Spoke to many farmers who were Conservative in nature and bitched about the liberal a-holes ruining their country.
Joe Biden & The Democrats Respond: Hold our beer & watch this!
NZ gov’t is inviting food shortages.
Deadly force is a two way street that even the powerful leftists with all of the arms at their disposal should fear. Even THEY should have discovered by now that firearms aren’t the only way for people to gain freedom from oppression. It only takes a very determined group of citizens to stymie the new reich. Just sayin’.
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