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19 February 2009
Time To Tax The Vegetarians!
There is apparently real truth to the proposition that, if it exists, it can
be taxed.
Following the news this week that the Danish tax commission wishes to tax
the methane emissions of domesticated ungulates such as the common cow, one
has to wonder if they haven’t perhaps been inhaling too much of something
else entirely.
We are told that this is to promote a “long-term eco-friendly fiscal
policy”. Uh, huh. I guess cows can’t vote, yet. Though universal
bovine suffrage can only be a step away if this is the world we live in.
It is this author’s contention that these people would not feel so inclined
to tax other being’s arses, if their heads were not crammed so far up
their own!
I read somewhere else recently that one of the biggest contributors to global
warming was the simple lettuce. The vegetarian-recycling brigade in the office
heard about this, you can rest assured :) With hardly any calorific value, an
inconvenient propensity not to grow in an ergonomic fashion, say on trees, and
furthermore to go off too quickly to suffer long-term storage (necessitating
rapid transport), she is a model of inefficiency. Not only that – just
consider the methane emissions once she reaches her ultimate destination!
Having taken up hectares of valuable, fertile land, sucked it dry of nutrients,
whilst requiring more insecticides than nearly any other crop, it has been whisked
half-way around the world by five different methods of rapid gas-guzzling transport
to reach a suitable population of green activist vegetarians, only to end its
life as a piece of garnish on the side of a plate of humus dipping carrots,
perhaps on the table of the Danish Tax Commission’s environmental panel,
in the midst of discussing how to tax the farts of the animals that have provided
the milk for the skinny lattes that they are contentedly sipping from recycled
cardboard cups.
Let’s consider these vegetarians, a club of which you have rightly guessed
I am proudly not a member. If bottom-burps, as my 2-year-old son calls them,
are indeed so bad for the environment, then does it not stand to reason that
we should investigate this scientifically, and start taxing proportionately?
Why should industry or the new bovine under-class bear the burden alone? We
should stand with them, shoulder to haunch. I therefore propose:
An immediate scientific study into the flatulence levels of humans in all
their dietary variety – omnivores, pescitarians, vegetarians and vegans.
I contend that said study will establish that omnivores are by the far
the most environmentally friendly beast, and vegans the least, which will
pave the way for a tiered system of culpability. The most polluting digestive
systems shall be in the highest tax band, whilst those opting for more efficient
omnivorous systems that allow Daisy to perform their mastication for them,
as nature intended, shall be rewarded with a comparatively light burden of
taxation. And perhaps a badge.
There can be an opt-out clause for those who feel they are being unfairly
or unduly taxed, and wish to wear a meter to pay-as-they-trump.
For any tax authorities, review commissions or senior decision makers wishing
to harness my ideas for the greater good of mankind, I can be contacted at tcerrocin.yllacitilop@googlemail.com.
My fee is foie-gras, followed by steak and a bottle of Rioja.
TY
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