"The Denmark Tax Commission estimates that each cow produces around 4 tons of greenhouse gases per year. Cows release methane from their stomach gases through burps and farts - a gas that is over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere." - http://www.fairhome.co.uk/2009/02/13/cow-farts-taxed-in-denmark 
But Danish farmers aren't impressed. This tax would raise their costs around 1 million danish kroner a year ($200,000). So basically, either people start eating other meats like chicken and pigs (pigs are already heavily taxed for their farts), or people have to pay ridiculously high prices for cows. Farmers would also be forced to cut down their number of cows.
“Cows burp and emit gas from the other end irrespective of whether there is a tax or not,” says Steen Nørgaard, a danish farmer in Jutland. The cows aren't going to stop farting.. their farts will just be worth more money now!
Bjarke told me and Solvej the news when we were eating dinner tonight.. (luckily it was chicken).. which got me thinking : when are they going to start charging US to fart? soon it will be "You can only fart 30 times a month! So choose your farts carefully! You must think: do I really need to fart? or can I hold it?"
I appologize for this partially disgusting blog.. but I felt it was a topic worth discussing. :)
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Wow, though that was mildly disgusting, it was extremely entertaining. What will they think of next?
So you asked me in an earlier posted comment on my blog whether or not I was going on the Jyllandstur, and the answer is no, I'm not. I'm actually going to go to the Jelling Music Festival instead. This is in hopes of me saving money.... Whether that will happen or not remains to be seen. How about you, are you going?
how will they tell when you fart? like invent a belt and when it feels the vibrations of farts it counts and when you get to 30 it electrifies you!! but what if you have a silent one, one of the ones that slip through the cracks (hehe) and leaves no vibrations how will it tell? or the nonsmelly ones. do they count?
courtney
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