New Zealand To Tax Cow Farts & Burps In A Bid To Stop Climate Change

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The left wing government of Jacinda Ardern has unveiled plans to charge livestock a ‘burping tax’ in a bid to tackle climate change and save the world.

New Zealand which has more cows and sheep than people combined, released a draft plan on Wednesday, to put a tax on its belching sheep and cattle in an effort to contain ‘greenhouse gas emissions’

No this is not satire!

The Ministry for Environmenternment announced that the proposal would make New Zealand the first country to have farmers pay for gas emissions from their livestock. The draft proposal is due to be finalised by December and expected to come into effect by 2025.

The tax will most likely see an increase to the cost of lamb and beef and dairy.

The Hindustan Times reports: New Zealand, home to 5 million people, has about 10 million cattle and 26 million sheep.

Nearly half its total greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, mainly methane, but agricultural emissions have previously been exempted from the country’s emissions trading scheme, drawing criticism of the government’s commitment to stop global warming.

Under the draft plan, put together by government and farm community representatives, farmers will have to pay for their gas emissions from 2025. Short-and long-lived farm gas will be priced separately, although a single measure to calculate their volume will be used.

“There is no question that we need to cut the amount of methane we are putting into the atmosphere, and an effective emissions pricing system for agriculture will play a key part in how we achieve that,” Climate Change Minister James Shaw said.

The proposal includes incentives for farmers who reduce emissions through feed additives, while on-farm forestry can be used to offset emissions. Revenue from the scheme will be invested in research, development and advisory services for farmers.

“Our recommendations enable sustainable food and fibre production for future generations while playing a fair part in meeting our country’s climate commitments,” said Michael Ahie, chair of the primary sector partnership, He Waka Eke Noa.

11 Comments

  1. “Revenue from the scheme will be invested in research, development and advisory services for farmers.”
    can we all say BS?
    will go directly into the pockets of the elite so they can buy the meat no one else will be able to afford

        • Exactly. And all to maximise profits to the new world order and build totally stupid energy substitutions into place that will be more harmful in the long run. Imagine in a war how secure energy production would be if
          wind farms or solar paddocks were the source? A few bombers or saboteurs, some weather warfare even and bam, a whole community city or state could be frozen to death.

          • And the living planet is like any living organism needing its nutrients, its minerals are essential for its life. These new energy rip offs need especially rare minerals which they ek harvest totally thoughtlessly, like they do everything, like stupid brainless thoughtless smart arse “experts” and totally endanger the entire planets health. And then they’ll say, oh it’s your fault You wanted it. Dirty low life scumbags.

  2. These climate hypocrites riding in their high-carbon jet planes on a daily basis and bitchin about cow flatulence? These people are mentally ill and drunk on power.

    #AlGoreSux

    #ClimateChangeIsAHoax

    #PunchALibInTheNeckToday

    • Yes They could use like gas masks for Ypur arse in every toile and people could earn to go the loo to fart instead of just letting them fly free Every toilet could be connected to gas pipes to storage cylinders Easy as. 7 a d half million people farthing every single day dependably reliably on average, I think I’ve read decades ago about 120 litres of methan per day. I remeber it sounded way too high but apparently that’s the average. That’s tonnes daily With ZERO costs of production.

  3. Humans produce methane too and as I ve Bern saying since the early 1980s the government’s should be harvesting darts and using that natural gas as energy But they would have to pay the farmer and his wife and kids as well as the cows and sheeep and you and I for their Fart collections not taxing us for them Theyre so stupid. They really are just exasperating ly stupid knob heads who should be sent to Mars.

  4. Now don’t forget your cod piece there Jack, you don’t want a repeat of THAT falling out and flopping about at the front of your dress now do you?

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