A Modest Proposal

[Bono]

Given how methane emissions from livestock are one of the leading causes of global warming, I would propose the creation of a cow fart tax to rein in the problem. You would attribute a tax to a certain cow based on average methane emissions and multiply it by the number of cows each farmer possessed. Since farmers are so obscenely subsidized, it wouldn't be a problem for them anyway, and we'd rein in one of the biggest sources of emissions. Thoughts?

[Alcon]

You sure are grumpy.

[Dr. Cynic]

Bono needs to relax just a little bit...

Go out and get a massage, man. Let's see if you're this grumpy when you come back home.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Maybe he lives next to a cow farm and has to smell cow farts all day.  It's no surprise that he would support just about anything to abate that problem.

[CARLHAYDEN]

Actually, he's just acting European.

The EEC is trying to mandate changes in animal feed to reduce emissions.

[Alcon]

Actually, he's just acting European.

I'm going to be generous and assume that you realize this is a joke.  In either case, we all got the joke.  That's not why we were calling him "grumpy."

[Gabu]

This isn't very modest; at least propose to slaughter every cow on Earth to bring greenhouse gases down.

[Padfoot]

Why should we slaughter cows when they are so useful?  Elephants and rhinocerouses are bound to produce more methane than cows and they don't do anything for us!

If animal farts were that significant then we'd all be talking about how the dinosaurs farted themselves to death.

[Joe Republic]

If animal farts were that significant then we'd all be talking about how the dinosaurs farted themselves to death.

Now that's just ridiculous.  Everybody knows that the dinosaurs were all wiped out by the floods during the time of Noah.

[ilikeverin]

This isn't very modest; at least propose to slaughter every cow on Earth to bring greenhouse gases down.

Not only that, but we must slaughter them all, and then use them as a fuel!  And lets toss in some Africans too, that way we can solve overpopulation to boot.

[J. J.]

This isn't very modest; at least propose to slaughter every cow on Earth to bring greenhouse gases down.

Humans also produce greenhouse gases naturally, as does rice farming.  Let's tell half a billion Asians to take one for the team. [/sarcasm]

[Padfoot]

This thread is starting to become very Linderman-like in its suggestions.  (Heroes shout out)

[Ban my account ffs!]

This isn't very modest; at least propose to slaughter every cow on Earth to bring greenhouse gases down.

Every man, woman, and child gets a free slaughtered cow.  Imagine the boon to freezer manufacturers!  Now that's good thinking, Gabu.

[KEmperor]

This isn't very modest; at least propose to slaughter every cow on Earth to bring greenhouse gases down.

Every man, woman, and child gets a free slaughtered cow.  Imagine the boon to freezer manufacturers!  Now that's good thinking, Gabu.

Are you accusing Gabu of thinking?

[bgwah]

Quit eating meat.

[2952-0-0]

New Zealand was considering a tax of 72 US cents per cow a few years back, but I don't know what happened to it.

[Gustaf]

Why should we slaughter cows when they are so useful?  Elephants and rhinocerouses are bound to produce more methane than cows and they don't do anything for us!

If animal farts were that significant then we'd all be talking about how the dinosaurs farted themselves to death.

Maybe we don't because some of us have some manners.

[Joe Republic]

Why should we slaughter cows when they are so useful?  Elephants and rhinocerouses are bound to produce more methane than cows and they don't do anything for us!

If animal farts were that significant then we'd all be talking about how the dinosaurs farted themselves to death.

Maybe we don't because some of us have some manners.

It's impolite to discuss the TRUTH?

[Verily]

Well, I don't know of a policy that would discourage cattle ranching, but it's something that should be discouraged. Ignoring the greenhouse gas issue, cattle ranching is by far the most inefficient method of producing food. Sheep, pigs and chickens are far more efficient, and of course corn and wheat and other grains even more so.

[Gustaf]

Why should we slaughter cows when they are so useful?  Elephants and rhinocerouses are bound to produce more methane than cows and they don't do anything for us!

If animal farts were that significant then we'd all be talking about how the dinosaurs farted themselves to death.

Maybe we don't because some of us have some manners.

It's impolite to discuss the TRUTH?

If the truth smells of cow-fart, definitely.