Story: Farming and the environment
In 2003 the government proposed introducing a tax on all livestock for their methane emissions. Misleadingly labelled the ‘fart tax’ (the ‘burp tax’ would have been more accurate), it was vehemently opposed by the farming industry and was subsequently withdrawn. Here, one cow’s question to the other about the tax elicits a negative response.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Cartoon by Allan Charles Hawkey
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