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Originally Posted by lettie
The acronym F.A.R.T. actually stands for Farmers Against Ridiculous Taxes. I'm pretty sure that this all kicked off in 2003, I know that it was shortly before I got there the first time I visited. The actual 'fart tax' was aimed at funding research into ways to reduce the emissions of livestock, not just to tax the farmers.... When they looked at reducing these emissions they thought of perhaps modifying the animal's diets or giving some sort of dietry or pharmacological supplement to reduce the emissions. Unfortunately the people of NZ are very wary of any sort of modified food and suspicious of GM foods (and quite rightly so). There is no way that the people who I met there would eat anything that they knew had been tampered with. Fresh actually means fresh over there too, not fresh frozen like here...
It has been found that NZ livestock do produce significantly more gas than their European cattle and sheep cousins.....attributed to NZ livestock having a fresher and more natural diet with less additives, drugs and interference...
I have to admit that fresh NZ lamb, beef and venison are amongst the best meats I have ever tasted. They taste like real meat used to do when I was a kid.....
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Iv'e done again Lettie, I must be developing
'lisdexia', mistaking ridiculous for serious, yes the New Zealand farmers are
excellent, They alone in the developed world receive no subsidies. since these were abolished, agriculture has been the fastest growing sector of the country's economy, they can still ship it half way round the world, and
compete on price with Britain and lavishly-subsidised counterparts in the
E.U.