Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
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Re: Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
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#3Insane to try to blame ruminants for climate change.
Re: Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
#4Insane to try to blame ruminants for climate change.
It's not ruminants that have to pay the tax.
Re: Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
#5I understand the "why", but there are like 8 billion people, I lost count, shouldn't gassy people be taxed also ?
I guess it is a way to reduce meat consumption. But I think there are far better places to look, Oil Industry and use of fossils (ie plastics) then Cows and Pigs. But no Government wants to do the hard thing because the pols will loose their jobs in the next election.
Re: Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
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#7Insane to try to blame ruminants for climate change.
Not so insane given that they are far more numerous due to agriculture than they would be as wild animals. This ultimately is a human-caused problem not a natural one. And there is the issue that what we feed livestock affects how much gas they produce. It's a serious research topic
https://clear.ucdavis.edu/explainers/why-do-cattle-produce-m...
Re: Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
#8Insane to try to blame ruminants for climate change.
Not so insane given that they are far more numerous due to agriculture than they would be as wild animals. This ultimately is a human-caused problem not a natural one. And there is the issue that what we feed livestock affects how much gas they produce. It's a serious research topic https://clear.ucdavis.edu/explainers/why-do-cattle-produce-m...
Thank you for raising this valid issue. Ruminant methane output has been reduced by 98.8% with the addition of a compound from seaweed to the animals food. You are a small bit behind the science but thanks to people like you raising awareness we solved the problem!
Re: Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
#9I understand the "why", but there are like 8 billion people, I lost count, shouldn't gassy people be taxed also ? I guess it is a way to reduce meat consumption. But I think there are far better places to look, Oil Industry and use of fossils (ie plastics) then Cows and Pigs. But no Government wants to do the hard thing because the pols will loose their jobs in the next election.
People (even "gassy" people) produce very little methane, which is the primary biological cause of global warming.
>But I think there are far better places to look, Oil Industry and use of fossils (ie plastics) then Cows and Pigs. But no Government wants to do the hard thing because the pols will loose their jobs in the next election.
This is talking about Denmark. They certainly haven't forgotten about oil and plastic. They have very aggressive taxation on ICE cars and were one of the first countries to ban free plastic bags.
Re: Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not so insane given that they are far more numerous due to agriculture than they would be as wild animals. This ultimately is a human-caused problem not a natural one. And there is the issue that what we feed livestock affects how much gas they produce. It's a serious research topic https://clear.ucdavis.edu/explainers/why-do-cattle-produce-m...
Thank you for raising this valid issue. Ruminant methane output has been reduced by 98.8% with the addition of a compound from seaweed to the animals food. You are a small bit behind the science but thanks to people like you raising awareness we solved the problem!
A citation for those who (as I) didn't know about this:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26388081.2022.2...
Don't know how widely adopted this is.