Cattlemen are having a tough time as it is. Add another tax on them and many will go out of business. Besides, what good will an additional tax do............get rid of the gas?
DING, DING, DING...we have a winner!!!
That is the idea, to drive animal agriculture out of business altogether, so we all eat tofu and alfalfa sprouts.
Abdominal gases, which, by the way, are mostly carbon dioxide, and some methane, are produced by biological functions in the stomachs and intestines of ALL mammals, and are due, primarily, to bacterial action in the gut. The same bacteria pass with the feces, and continue the generation of carbon dioxide and methane during the decomposition of the waste. Human beings are bound by the same biological limitations of ALL mammals, in fact, most animal life, right down to lowly termites and cockroaches, and either the cows produce the methane, or the human beings do. Therefore there should be a tax assessed upon all the human consumers of agricultural products, most especially the vegans who consume mostly plant products, and generate greater amounts of methane than those who consume meat.
Maybe we could all eat dirt, and leave loam as droppings. Works for earthworms.
All these taxes are paving the way for Corporate Agriculture to swoop in and buy all these failed businesses at a steep discount. The power to tax, is the power to destroy. When food prices are up over 600%, Americans may realize they have destroyed themselves.