Should we tax cattle farmers for "Cow Flatulence" impact on Global Warming?

Answer 1

This is rediculous!!! You might want to "really think" your questions through before you ask something so obserd....

Answer 2

Not even getting into unnecessary taxes.....but one should realize that, even though cow methane (like all methane) is a "potent"(so to speak) greenhouse gas....the main issue is that the cow farts are NOT releasing CO2 from fossil fuels. Nope, it is only good old fashioned methane and CO2 from recently fixed CO2. In other words, the grass or alfalfa captured that CO2 out of the air just a few months before the cow put it back. That is a 0-balance issue. Simple recycling and not something to be worried about. In fact, that is the only reason ethanol or biodiesel burning as fuel makes sense. It is not fossil fuel. Fossil fuels burning is what is outside the norm for the earth as causing the unusually fast climate change problem. That stuff was locked up as rock and deeply buried gas and oil....locked away from the atmosphere before we went..."Cool... Let's have an industrial revolution! Party on!"
Problem is....now we have a whole bunch of carbon trapped by photosynthesis millions of years ago added to the CO2 from photosynthesis from last year (cows, biodiesel). Lets try to stick with recycling instead of digging up all that old stuff in the ground.

Answer 3

No, this is utterly stupid. Taxing everything under the sun is not the answer.

Continual, consistent work towards lower emissions and higher energy efficiency is the answer.

We can't afford all of these shocks to our economic system. Gas prices are high enough without further screwing up meat prices, too.

We will get there. We will help the environment. And we've come along way in the past 25, 50, and 100 years. And we're still improving. Drastic measures like taxation or imposing draconian measures only causes economic turmoil and depression.

Answer 4

Should we charge you for farting??
Can we attach a fart meter to your butt and measure the volume for tax purposes?
Taxing the farmer would simply tax yourself at the fast food counter unless you are an arf, vegan.

The trust people put into bs media stories today???
Spent most of my youth on a cattle farm, 250+ head. The dont stand around farting methane all the time, if they did lots of barns would burn and the cows would all look singed and the smell of burned hair would be everywhere.
Cow piles give off a small amout of methane as they decompose, large pools of manure, cow or otherwise naturally give off more due to concentration and natural heating.

Why dont we tax everyone for small annoying dog farts, they smell a lot worse than cows.

Answer 5

tax is the answer to everything.
be a good citizen and pay your unlawful taxes.
don't question the government about the fact that there is real scientific evidence to support the fact that global warming is a natural cycle caused by solar activity. Greenhouse gas caused by humans has no effect. They lie to scare you into submission, look at what they are doing with "terrorism". Watch a movie called Global Warming Swindle.

Answer 6

If we levy excise taxes on gasoline and industry, yes. Put a tax on beef cows and the farmers can pass it on the customers. It's only fair to make everyone contributing to the problem contribute to the solution.

Now if we would quit giving breaks to "developing countries"--it doesn't do any good to clean up half the world and let the other half's crap float over to us, and it puts countries who are trying to prevent global warming at a competitive disadvantage.

Answer 7

We should tax the cattle farmers for the flatulence and also for the far more awful thing that cows produce, beef.

Answer 8

do you like to eat? meat? veggies? fruit? do you drink milk? well should we talk something that makes these things Lord knows that I love to eat fresh meat and I'm a proud owner of a farm that raise cows.... they dont do much other then eat, drink, and moo... unlike you people who will get into a car, talk to much and tell me that i shouldn't do this that and the other... last but not least; how can something that God put on this earth be bad for this earth???? Just wondering... have a nice one

Answer 9

yes, 2 cents a fart and burp, they would go out of business.
The raising of cattle causes more global warming than all of the car emmissions on the planet.
Over 80% of the dry tropical forests from northern Costa Rica to Mexico have been cut down. Areas of this size and larger have been cut down throughout the world including the Amazon, Indonesia, the Congo and other rain forests. The temperature after removing the rain forest has risen dramatically in these large tracts of land. The weather pattern also changes from this deforestation in each locality and they become drier. When these huge areas have their trees removed, erosion dumps millions of tons of sediment into the rivers that flow into the oceans. This sediment slowly suffocates the polyps of the precious coral reefs in the tropics.
What is the main reason for cutting these rain forests down? The main reason is to make room to raise cattle, not logging as many people think. With logging they generally cut down large hardwoods. To raise cow meat they cut down everything. In Central America much of the beef is exported to the United States. What can the average person do? eat soy, legumes and nuts as a protein source. This is a better way to practice sustainability. If the beef is grown in the United States sorry that isn't sustainable either. A person who eats cow meat (beef) as their main protein source requires about 20 acres of land each year and over 2000 gallons of precious water to raise that steer for protein. That is not sustainability. A person eating soy for their main source of protein only requires one acre of land and about 40 gallons of water each year to grow it. Also, soy doesn't add millions of tons of methane gas each year to our atmosphere. it actually absorbs co2. cows do produce over 100 million tons of global warming methane gas in the U.S. alone. Cattle excrement also is adding to major pollution problems in our water systems today. Stop eating beef! Or if you absolutely can't stop eating beef, cut back to once a week or once a month. if you must eat a meat chicken is much less destructive to the environment than beef, here in the tropics. Besides, refraining from eating beef is healthier in the long run.
If you want to take responsibility in helping save our planet from global warming, deforestation of the rain forests, dying coral reefs there are many other eating alternatives. please, eat to live, don't live to eat.
For our children's sake and the sake of the rain forests, coral reefs and the entire planet we need to step up and do something other than practice over indulgence. Cavemen had to hunt to get their protein and that was ok. Then we started raising animals to get our protein and that was needed. Now we know how to get all of the protein we need from plants. So it is time to evolve another step and stop the senseless cruelty to raising animals for food and also help control global warming and its effects at the same time.
henry
rainforest guide in costa rica, co-founder of the birding club of costa rica and past curator of zoo ave, largest breeding and release center of endangered birds and animals in central and south america

Answer 10

Why not?

Mass farming, or agribusiness, is bad for the environment anyway.

Finding a way to break up that type of business and create small, local groups of animals would help in a lot of ways.

Answer 11

maybe we should tax the politicians for all their hot air blustering instead of the farmers