New Zealand to Tax Cow Burps to Fight Climate Change

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By Ken Ham

The island nation of New Zealand—a country with twice as many cows and five times as many sheep as people—has proposed a new tax directed at the “greenhouse gases” that farm animals produce, such as methane gas from cows and sheep burping and nitrous oxide from their urine. This tax is part of their plan to fight climate change by becoming “carbon neutral” by 2050.

Are agricultural emissions really something we need to be worried about?

What will taxing cows do (other than raising the cost of farming and therefore food, of course)? Well, this tax will then reportedly go back …read more

Source: Ken Ham AIG