Kōrero: Farming and the environment

The ‘fart tax’

The ‘fart tax’

In 2003 the government proposed introducing a tax on all livestock for their methane emissions. Misleadingly labelled the ‘fart tax’ (the ‘burp tax’ would have been more accurate), it was vehemently opposed by the farming industry and was subsequently withdrawn. Here, one cow’s question to the other about the tax elicits a negative response.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: DCDL-0001839
Cartoon by Allan Charles Hawkey

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Julia Haggerty and Hugh Campbell, 'Farming and the environment - Biodiversity and greenhouse gas changes', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/17915/the-fart-tax (accessed 25 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Julia Haggerty and Hugh Campbell, i tāngia i te 24 Nov 2008