In 2010, the U.N. proposed a global levy on livestock’s methane emissions, a measure that was promptly and unavoidably dubbed a fart tax in the press. A similar surcharge was proposed in the U.K. three years earlier, and farmers howled though it’s arguable that this is one case in which the tax collector would dread an audit even more than the taxpayer.
Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/03/30/silence-the-cows-and-save-the-planet/#ixzz1IfiuNQSg
All insanity starts at the U.N.
All those third world cattle raisers are in for a shock.
But the obvious answer is that the British no longer want to be taken serious on ANY issue.