Cattle Call

The left has declared war on cows:

If you are wondering why cows are suddenly supervillains, you aren't paying attention to the extremists running the environmental movement. You see, every time a cow burps or passes gas (methane, to be exact), the planet gets warmer. The fiends! So now we have the first nation to impose a tax on livestock -- and pigs and goats may be next. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen boasts that "we are investing billions" in this transition to a carbon-free society. Sounds like he's angling for a Nobel Prize. The cows are collateral damage in this crusade to save the planet from heat waves. CNN says the global food system contributes one-third of the greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. PBS says it's worse than that. It finds that "cows and other livestock animals are responsible for about 40 percent of methane emissions -- a potent greenhouse gas. In digesting their high fiber diet, cows emit methane as a byproduct, making them one of the least climate friendly sources of food on the planet." .... What is sadly ironic about this taxing scheme is that this is the same movement that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to save elephants, polar bears, pandas, tigers, dolphins and other "endangered species." But apparently cows we can live without. They aren't cute and cuddly enough. So much for "biodiversity."

Some animals are more equal than others...