VEGETARIANS SHOULD BE TAXED.

The greenpeace tossers were out in force on the Tauranga harbour today protesting about Palm Oil .. We always think that this is the great green scandal of this decade. In the race to develop " biofuels" poor countries grew palm oil - big money for them so they chopped down trees to plant the cash crop. Not quite what the greenies intended.

Anyway now the holieir than thou Greenies are against Palm oil. And they are blaming the fact the Dairy industry quite like the palm kernels as feed. So they are protesting the landing of shipments of it. Tauranga was todays target - well actually Fonterra was the target . Its been a monumental flop.
As It appears the stuff has nothing to do with Fonterra. ( we think it probably is destined for the chook industry.)

the Herald poll on the issue shows the public support for this sort of protest is very very low.

Anyway we reckon that the big issue, the serious issue that the world should be grappling with is the emissions of the greenies themselves. These green eaters fart - lots - way more than meat eaters... polluters they are and its time they were taxed for it.

A tax on all brassicas and beans - that would do it.

WE ARE EXCELLENT PRODUCERS OF CO2

Apparently the bigger you are the more you do to pollute the planet. According to a Reuters story on Kyiv Post from the Ukraine, Fat people do more harm to the environment.

Overweight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly bad for the environment, according to a study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

"When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a heavy body is like driving around in a gas guzzler," and food production is a major source of greenhouse gases, researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in their study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

"We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognise it as a key factor in the battle to reduce (carbon) emissions and slow climate change," the British scientists said.

They estimated that each fat person is responsible for about one tonne of carbon dioxide emissions a year more on average than each thin person, adding up to an extra one billion tonnes of CO2 a year in a population of one billion overweight people.

The European Union estimates each EU citizen accounts for 11 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year.

What bloody bollocks, its not like we fart like dog or burp like a dairy heifer all day. Thank god we have John Key at the helm - Helen would have instituted a fart tax on fatties on the back of this research. Hell, now she is in the UN , she will be claiming that poor people should stay thin to save the planet from the ravages of global warming!

Where are the economists doing the counter study looking at our high rate of consumerism that helps stoke flagging economies? We should be revered, put on a pedestal ( albeit with a sturdy base) as citizens to emulate. After all we live hard and die quick from the good life. That saves a hell of a lot of hot air.

OF GRANDMOTHERS AND FARTS

BB and Lambcuts nana was one of the sweetest women you could every wish to meet. She came from a dour Scottish family, never drank or smoked and she was very devout and a regular attendant at the Baptist church but boy did she love a a giggle. The one thing that sent her into paroxysms of laughter was farting. So this is in memory of our wonderful nana, I can hear her tinkling laugh now.

This is courtesy of Barnsley Bill

But we reckon that silly old Prince Phillip has let go a bloody ripper...