{"id":17271,"date":"2024-11-26T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2024-11-26T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T10:24:00","slug":"taxing-farm-animals-farts-and-burps-denmark-gives-it-a-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17271","title":{"rendered":"Taxing Farm Animals\u2019 Farts and Burps? Denmark Gives It a Try."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Denmark, known for its inventive restaurants and elegant design studios, is about to become known for something more basic: the world\u2019s first belch and manure tax.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because there are five times as many pigs and cows in Denmark as there are people. Nearly two-thirds of its land is taken up by farming. And agriculture is becoming its largest share of climate pollution, putting lawmakers under intense public pressure to reduce it.<\/p>\n

So now, Denmark\u2019s unlikely coalition government, made up of three parties from across the political spectrum, has agreed to tax the planet-heating methane emissions that all those animals expel through their poop, farts and burps. The measure, under negotiation for years, was passed by the Danish Parliament this month, making it the only such climate levy on livestock in the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s good,\u201d said Rasmus Angelsnes, 31, who was shopping for dinner in Copenhagen one recent afternoon. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a nudge to make different choices, maybe more climate-friendly choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Never mind that his shopping cart contained thick slices of pork belly, which he planned to cook that rainy evening with potatoes and parsley. \u201cComfort food,\u201d he said sheepishly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A butcher shop in the Torvehallerne food market in central Copenhagen recently. Meat consumption is steady in Europe, and rising globally.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Denmark, known for its inventive restaurants and elegant design studios, is about to become known for something more basic: the world\u2019s first belch and manure tax.That\u2019s because there are five times as many pigs and cows in Denmark as there are people. Nearly two-thirds of its land is taken up by farming. And agriculture is becoming its largest share of climate pollution, putting lawmakers under intense public pressure to reduce it.So now, Denmark\u2019s unlikely coalition government, made up of three parties from across the political spectrum, has agreed to tax the planet-heating methane emissions that all those animals expel through their poop, farts and burps. The measure, under negotiation for years, was passed by the Danish Parliament this month, making it the only such climate levy on livestock in the world.\u201cI think it\u2019s good,\u201d said Rasmus Angelsnes, 31, who was shopping for dinner in Copenhagen one recent afternoon. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a nudge to make different choices, maybe more climate-friendly choices.\u201dNever mind that his shopping cart contained thick slices of pork belly, which he planned to cook that rainy evening with potatoes and parsley. \u201cComfort food,\u201d he said sheepishly.A butcher shop in the Torvehallerne food market in central Copenhagen recently. Meat consumption is steady in Europe, and rising globally.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17273,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17274,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions\/17274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}