New Zealand Plans To Tax Cow Flatulance & Sheep Urine In World-First Climate Levy

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New Zealand has proposed a tax on burping and peeing farm animals in a bid to combat climate change

In a world-first climate levy, New Zealand plans to tax the gases released by the bodily functions of it 36 million cows and sheep.

The policy which was announced on Tuesday would be the first in the world to place a levy on cow farts and burps a as well as sheep pee.

The Arden government’s net zero plan includes a pledge to reduce methane emissions from farm animals by 10 per cent by 2030 and by up to 47 per cent by 2050.

MSN reports: The move was immediately condemned by New Zealand’s powerful farming sector.

Farmers warned it risked crippling domestic food production, with Federated Farmers, the industry’s main lobby group, saying the plan would “rip the guts out of small town New Zealand” and see farms replaced with trees.

The group’s president Andrew Hoggard said farmers had been trying to work with the government for more than two years on an emissions reduction plan that would “keep farmers farming”.

The proposed levy, he said, would lead farmers to sell their farms “so fast you won’t even hear the dogs barking on the back of the ute [a pick-up truck] as they drive off”.

Opposition politicians argued the plan would increase worldwide emissions by moving farming to other countries that were less efficient at making food.

But prime minister Jacinda Ardern said the levy would bolster New Zealand’s agricultural sector as all the money would be put towards new technology, industry research and incentive payments for farmers.

“New Zealand’s farmers are set to be the first in the world to reduce agricultural emissions, positioning our biggest export market for the competitive advantage that brings in a world increasingly discerning about the provenance of their food,” Ms Ardern said.

New Zealand’s farming industry is vital to its economy but it contributes about half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

There are just 5 million people in the Pacific island nation but some 10 million beef and dairy cattle and 26 million sheep.

13 Comments

  1. Farmers have had it easy for too long They sit around most of the year watching their crops grow or get up and milk the cows at 5 finished by about 8, have the day free to “mend fences” (means run around rooting the single birds behind the old cheeses back), back by 5 pm to milk again, then in for tea at 7.30 and off to bed for another early start Tommorow.

  2. Based on flawed and faked science by the power elite to reign in more freedoms through increased taxes. Your going to pay for the prison planet project. When done you will own nothing eat bugs have no rights to simply serve a nation of illegal invaders who’ve been elevated above the native population. Being that this new demographic hates you, this should work just fine for those in power to keep that boot on our heads. Time to stand for humanity or fall to this tribe of greedy bankers!

  3. The whole service bureau ‘so-called-government’ in New Zealand is a total WEF sham / communists have violated all the treaties set in place and replaced the legitimate government. All treasonous, corrupt appointed corporate muppets – Te Wakaminenga Maori 1835 treaties set in place the terms of government and has been plowed under by globalist pirates – Awesome Country, Awesome People; kick the bums out

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