New Zealand Seeks To Implement Backdoor Meat Tax By Taxing Farmers For Burps And Farts From Livestock

The goal of this move, according to Ardern and government officials, is to ultimately reduce carbon and methane emissions.

There is no question that we need to cut the amount of methane we are putting into the atmosphere, and an effective emissions pricing system for agriculture will play a key part in how we achieve that.

James Shaw, New Zealand’s climate change minister, he told The Telegraph

The WinePress has routinely reported on the international efforts to prime the masses to stop eating meats, and adopt more plant-based diets per ingesting bugs; or heavily processed faux meats made from plant-based formulas, and lab-grown or cell-cultured meats from a lab.

According to the Absolute Zero agenda goals for 2030 and 2050,

[By 2030] National consumption of beef and lamb drops by 50%, along with reduction in frozen ready meals and air-freighted food imports. [After that] Beef and lamb [will be] phased out, along with all imports not transported by train; fertilizer use greatly reduced. 

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If this tax is imposed upon Kiwi farmers, it would result in higher prices for everyone else. Reported by Today FM, Paul O’Brien, chair of the IFA’s environmental committee, who is also a sheep farmer, states:

At the moment these are still only [a] think-tank giving recommendations.

I would be strongly concerned of the direction that this is going.

Obviously I would be worried about the bottom line – if there is going to be any additional taxes or levies put on my farming system, how will be able to recuperate that back in the marketplace at the moment?

I see this as being very much a case of this will have to go back then to the end consumer, the end consumer will be expected to pay more money for produce.

The taxation on farming will ultimately have to go back to the end consumer.

But Peter Thorne, a climate scientist, notes that it was New Zealand who helped formulate the bill’s dynamics.

There are really interesting parts of it, for example, that the farmers have been involved with the design of this process.

So broadly speaking, anything that starts to bring farmers and policy-makers together and stop them working apart is to be welcomed.

There are of course many details in this which will require being hammered out, and there is some concern that the price is far too low.

But it will interesting to see how it develops.

He additionally explained that the tax would be measured by the size of the herds themselves and not each individual animal.

You clearly cannot measure the emissions from every single animal, particularly if they’re out on pasture.

So there are assumptions… we’re able to measure and quantify in experimental conditions the affects of things like food additives.

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Radio New Zealand (RNZ) further details what this bill will do, which also ‘recommends letting farmers count their emissions and get a discounted levy for making reductions or planting trees,’ the station reported. That discounted money will then be reinvested for more emission reductions schemes, and pay for the program itself.

It is expected to cost $114 million to $144m to set up, and then $27m annually – although as much as $47m a year to run in the first few years.

It appears the annual cost to run the programme over its first few years is tens of millions of dollars more than the expected revenue gathered. However, it gets into the black as time goes on and the price of gases increases.

The Kiwi radio station explained

Our recommended approach would enhance New Zealand’s reputation as world leaders in low-emission food production and keep us ahead of our competitors.

Waka Eke Noa group chair Michael Ahie said

However, other reports show that 99% of farmers are not interested in linking up with this trading scheme, according to Farmers Weekly.

This new move would affect beef, lamb, and deer meat production more compared to milk and diary products.

If the bill goes through, ‘Farmers who have more than 550 cattle, sheep, deer or goats; 50 dairy cattle; use at least 40 tons of synthetic fertilizer; have 700 swine, 50,000 poultry, must take part in the scheme,’ RNZ further notes. They will have to 1) Report their emissions numbers; 2) Have a greenhouse gas management plan; 3) Pay for methane and long-lived gas emissions.

The transition will cost farmers $750 for the initial transition, and then somewhere between $1200-1600 annually after that.

New Zealand is home to approximately 10 million cows and 26 million sheep grazing the fields of the island nation, Breitbart reports. Therefore records indicate that this is roughly half of the nation’s emissions.

‘Yet, despite the large livestock population, the Pacific Ocean island country only ranks 74th globally in terms of carbon emissions, accounting for just 0.09 per cent of the world’s emissions, meaning that such a tax would likely have negligible impacts on supposedly man-made climate change,’ Breitbart wrote.

The bill is set to be finalized by December this year, and would take effect by 2025.

The WP has additionally that is inflation continues to rip higher the media has taken the opportunity to inflect upon the masses the necessity of going plant-based instead.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 4:-3

Again and again we see Bible prophecy coming to pass. All the new Vatican perversions say ‘foods’ instead of “meats” like the King James Bible reads. And while it is true that it is expected to see veganism pushed as well, that include animal alternatives for animal byproducts; the real heart of the battle is to get the masses off of eating meats, as demonstrated by this report.

And if New Zealand is set to do this, Australia will probably follow in lockstep, as with large portions of Europe and North America. Kiwi and Aussie meat is very high quality, versus the conventional feedlot crap that is quite pervasive here in the States, though there are still options to get pastured-raised and regenerative meats the way God intended. But the costs for these imported meats will greatly rise, so much so these companies may not be able to afford to sell to places like the U.S.

Assuming this gets passed, by the time it comes into full-effect, inflation and economic ruin will have already occurred. By then most farmers will have already defaulted or pushed to their wits end.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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