Denmark Proposing Carbon Tax on Farmers With Farting Cows, Sheeps, and Pigs
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark…
LOL. Leslie misses the funny stuff.
Well, maybe not so funny in this case because Danish farmers face a carbon tax because of their farting cows, sheep, and pigs.
The idiotic move will likely affect the food supply:
The aim is to reduce Danish greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030, said Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus.
As of 2030, Danish livestock farmers will be taxed 300 kroner ($43) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2030. The tax will increase to 750 kroner ($108) by 2035. However, because of an income tax deduction of 60%, the actual cost per ton will start at 120 kroner ($17.3) and increase to 300 kroner by 2035.
Although carbon dioxide typically gets more attention for its role in climate change, methane traps about 87 times more heat on a 20-year timescale, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Parliament still needs to approve the tax.
The tax could cost farmers up to $100 per cow.
You know who will help pay the tax, right? The consumer.
However, higher prices don’t usually lead to less consumption. Those who would cut down on meat would be low-income consumers:
Food consumption is not as strongly linked to price as one might think. Changes in consumption of food are typically much smaller than changes in the price consumers face in the grocery store. This is a phenomenon that has been recognized and measured for decades.
We would need to implement huge taxes to achieve a small decrease in consumption. As an example, the study in the Nature Climate Change journal suggests a 40-per-cent tax on beef would reduce beef consumption by only 15 per cent.
Because taxes on food at the retail level tend to raise the prices paid by consumers, it’s also worth noting that any increase in the price of meat would tend to affect low-income consumers more than more affluent consumers. Low-income consumers would pay relatively more than the rich.
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It started with Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus:
“For my own part, these considerations, of our Clothes-thatch, and how, reaching inwards even to our heart of hearts, it tailorizes and demoralizes us, fill me with a certain horror at myself and mankind; almost as one feels at those Dutch Cows, which, during the wet season, you see grazing deliberately with jackets and petticoats (of striped sacking), in the meadows of Gouda. Nevertheless there is something great in the moment when a man first strips himself of adventitious wrappages; and sees indeed that he is naked, and, as Swift has it, ‘a forked straddling animal with bandy legs;’ yet also a Spirit, and unutterable Mystery of Mysteries.”
Please, cut the “s.”
The unspoken assumption behind the “climate change” insanity is that more carbon/CO² is a “bad thing.”
Essentially, they are trying to force the entire world into their religious cult.
Of course, “the issue” is never the issue. They cry “climate change,” but their real goal is “population control”… not merely the number of inhabitants, but restrictions on *all* human activity. Hence “you’ll own nothing, and be ‘happy.’ “
Can someone file a lawsuit on behalf of the trees in Denmark, which live on CO2? Just wondering …
All animal feed consumes CO2, then some is released after they consume the feed. This is a natural process. If the feed was allowed to rot, that would release that CO2.
Are the people promoting this that stupid?
The “kids” from Montana had no problem with “standing” for their lawsuit, but they’re on the Left, so they always have standing.
Australia will pay for every croc that passes gas.
India for their elephants
Brazil for their piranhas
Insanity
It’s almost like when sometimes one feels a bit overwhelmed with one’s personal To Do list — s you focus your attention on the absolutely most useless task first.
ESG is such a fraud.
Think how much ABC will have to pay for the panel of ‘The View.’
I bet Whoopie produces more methane than all the people on the View..
I propose a tax on legislators and eco-fascists.
Every time they float a tax, rule, law, or ban, their personal liability goes up equal to what it would cost those impacted by the same, regardless of the success or failure of the proposal – and does not ratchet down.
How about a tax on toxic fumes emitted by politicians?
The really sad part of this is after all the farmers protesting and staying of man up, they were represented on the “committee ” and agreed to this
Dang
So, I want to make sure I understand this, someone has actually, scientifically analyzed and measured an actual cow fart? Who was this science icon? He/she/it should be a household name.
meanwhile….people playing both sides against the middle
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/06/25/climate-aerosols-shipping-global-cooling/
Humans’ fossil fuel burning has cooled the planet while warming it
square THAT circle
You can bet the elites who thought this up will never miss a meal, nor will they lose any ground financially. Part of that tax will go to fund their lavish lifestyles.
Wow, if they ever included humans, I could never afford to live in Denmark.
Seriously, their immigration snafus are causing so much issue, this is what’s important to their government?
taylor swift needs to fly on a private cow
and speaking of animals….
sharpshooters are bieng called in to help with the overpopulation of deer
while kristy noem was allowed to fall to the lefty controlled narrative that she was evil for putting down her out -of-control dog
Arlington County staff are recommending hiring professional sharpshooters to reduce local deer populations.
Because God forbid they should actually issue deer tags to hunters who would be glad to do it for free.
People who want to make food production harder or more expensive shouldn’t be allowed to buy food
The Danish government is doing this after all the pushback in the recent EU parliament elections?
Someone really wants to make Danes eat bugs?
The tax is apparently on methane, not carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide equivalent of some quantity of methane can be calculated only if one knows how powerful a greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is…. Does the Danish government know?
Plenty of farmland available in the USA for European farmers being displaced by lefty bureaucrats. The more small/medium size diversified farms run by experienced folks who want to farm the better off we will be and the more secure our food supply will be.
Too late, they’re all being bulldozed for illegal immigrant housing.
And here I thought they were occupying blue city hotels and shelters with the remainder spilling over into police stations, airports, arenas and subways…when more posh quarters weren’t be offered up by woke city leadership.
Plenty of immediately -available shelter now available across the USA with colleges closing every couple weeks
But, that means letting those icky white people into the country.
They backed off a bunch of nonsense earlier due to massive farmer protests throughout Europe but if anyone thought this would stop they were mistaken. The lefts war on meat will never stop until it’s too expensive to buy. You will be a bug eating vegan whether you like it or not.
Fortunately I am currently watching 8 whitetails in the soybeans field out back with owner permission to shoot as many as I want for crop damage
They all identify as non-farting animals so tell the bigots to sod off.
Wonder if joie biden will start a second career as a cow, sheep, pig fart sniffer for carbon emissions.
He’s already way ahead of any other professional sniffers with his sniffing of children.