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first cow fart tax
Obligatory ummm akchually it’s the burps.
Wasn’t New-Zeeland first, by taxing emissions of cattle?
it’s the huge commercial farming that’s the problem. Feeding grains and such making the gas worse for the animals. Smaller grass fed farms shouldn’t be included in the tax.
The problem is the bacteria cows use to digest cellulose. That’s not really changed by grass-feeding the animals. What’s needed is to sharply reduce the total quantity of cattle; the only way going to small grass-fed farms is going to make a big difference is to stop raising as many animals.
https://www.rff.org/publications/explainers/agricultural-greenhouse-gas-emissions-101/
As indicated in the figure, carbon dioxide emissions accounted for about 7.2 percent of (non-energy-related) agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases in 2021
It’s something, but it’s not what it should’ve been. Farmers have a lot of political sway in this country and I have no doubt that some under-the-table things have happened because that’s the motto of our sitting government.
This is a very tiny step, like a cow calf rising up and making a step right before they’re abducted to a veal crate/cage far away from their distressed mother.
