You don't have to collect 8.4 million dollars to find out that changing peoples' diet from meat to vegetarian (cutting out rice grown in water as well) will reduce emissions of methane by reducing the need for meat animals such as cattle and sheep! It is already known that methane is 16X the greenhouse gas as C02. Is not the idea of the FART to reduce the animal numbers because the farmers don't want to pay? FART fighting FART doesn't solve anything. Nothing get done and the methane still floats up. Only changing land use, if that were possible, by paying FARMERS to grow something else would reduce methane production. Or, secure a small burner on the rear end of each sheep and cattle! Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Cotterill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Biodynamic Food and Farming Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:14 PM Subject: Re: New Zealanders
> Unfortunely New Zealand government signed the Kyoto Protocol and now is > responsible to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The Australia and US > governments had more sense and did not signed. The NZ government is going to > levy each cattle and sheep to collect 8.4 million dollars research fund to > find ways to lower these methane emissions. > The New Zealand Farmers are angry and have formed a protest group called > F.A.R.T. Fight Against Rediculous Taxes and they plan to block the highways > with their tractors if need be. The farmers argue that their farms are only > part of the cycle absorbing greenhouse gases as well as producing them. > However the government refuses to back down and now it looks like the > farmers will refuse to co-operate in the collection of the flatulence tax. > > Peter Cotterill. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rex Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:19 PM > Subject: Re: New Zealanders > > > > Eric et al > > > > On 15 Jul 03, Eric Myren wrote: > > > What is this I hear about farmers in New Zealand mailing the > > > government sheep and cow poop to protest a flatulence tax? > > > > http://www.ruralnews.co.nz/article.asp?channelid=32&articleid=4100 > > > > We wonder if Marie's few milking sheep are going to cop the > > proposed tax? 8-] > > > > Rex > > _______________________________________________ > > BDNow mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can unsubscribe or change your options at: > > http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow > > _______________________________________________ > BDNow mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can unsubscribe or change your options at: > http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow > _______________________________________________ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow
