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.