A cow tax of €13 per animal has been mooted in Ireland, while Denmark is discussing a levy as high as €80 per cow to offset the potential penalties each country faces from EU legislation aimed at combating global warming.
The proposed levies are opposed vigorously by farming groups. Proposal to tax the flatulence of cows and other livestock have been denounced by farming communities of Irish Republic and Denmark.
The reason for this weird tax is because apparently livestock contribute 18% of the greenhouse gases believed to cause global warming (as global warming has not been proved outside the lab premise!!), according to UNFAO. Danish tax commission estimates that a cow will emit 4 tonnes of methane a year in burps and farts (flatulence) compared with 2.7 tonnes of Carbon dioxide for an average car.
Another fanatical EU legislation is that agriculture, transport and housing are not included in EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which enables industrial companies to buy and sell permits to emit carbon dioxide. Instead, EU member states are obliged to cut emissions from non-ETS sectors by 10% overall by 2020.
They have also gone further ahead to suggest that devices should be attached to their buttocks to measure the amount of methane emitted.
If things move at this rate then a day is not far when our tail holes will be bustling with various devices to tackle global warming.
No comments:
Post a Comment