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Carbon Tax on Carnivores 


This article was found on January 29, 2011. It is an interesting article so you should click on the link and read what the article is all about. Check out the interesting video below. It is a short video filled with a lot of information and I advice you check it out. 


Important Facts or Points  from Article: 
* tracking about $82, onto the cost of beef for every "ton of carbon dioxide equivalent" would reduce Europe's beef consumption by 15 percent. 
* By taxing all meats and milk, Europe's greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by about 7 percent
*The greenhouse gas produced by cattle is methane, a gas 20 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat. 
* Cow produce methane in their stomachs. 
* gas exits the cow through both ends, mostly belches , but some as flatulence 
* the study proposes taxing pork less than beef and chicken less than both. 
* this makes sense since beef requires the most food and water to produce and the cows themselves release more gas than the other animals 
* benefit of the tax is that it doesn't require new technologies and could be implemented as soon as legislation was passed
* economically encouraging people to change their eating habits would not only be good for the environment, but would free up land for other uses 
* far more food can be produced on land farmed for beans, corn, and other crops, than if it was used for cattle pasture or producing animal feed 
* that food can be used to fill the bellies of millions of hungry people on the planet 

   The video above explains about how a farm works. It explains how there are only 50 thousand family farm now supplying the country and how the price for milk has gone up. It also explains how one family uses the cow manure to use for fueling their home. 

    It is important to know about how the carbon from the cows will affect the greenhouse gas. It is important to know how people could possibly improve their eating habits by reading this article. The article shows that it is important to change economically so that there is more free up land. 

   It is important to teach students about what gases are apart of the greenhouse. Some of those gases are carbon, and  methane. Greenhouse gases are  important to know about in order to understand global warming. This article talks about methane and its effects on cows.This article also talks about a carbon tax on beef.  Greenhouse gases are affecting global warming. It is important for students to know  about the different gases and as a teacher I will teach the students about the different gases through experiments and videos and notes.