Essays by Eric Worrall
New Zealand is in the midst of a food crisis. Food prices increased 11.3% in the past 12 months, many families are struggling. The government’s response was punitive climate taxes and food production regulations.
How New Zealand plans to tackle climate change: Tax burping cows
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His pedigree cattle are ranked among New Zealand’s most productive cattle, the result of careful grazing and quality grazing land. Millions of years of volcanic activity in the area have created fertile soil ideal for this type of free-range, herbivorous livestock that helps turn dairy cows into the country’s energy supply. biggest export earnings.
But the digestion of animals — essentially their burping — emits a powerful greenhouse gas called methaneand the result is agriculture take half emissions of the country. Now, the island nation dubbed the Saudi Arabia of dairy because of its dominant role in the global dairy trade, is faced with the calculation of how to balance the outsized contribution that ranchers make. out to the economy relative to New Zealand’s needs to meet their needs. greenhouse gas commit.
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Some farmers will need to reduce their herds to achieve those goals, which many people worry could put them out of business. Government modeling shows that by 2030, sales of lamb and beef will decrease by about 20% – make many farms impossible to survive.
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New Zealand’s food crisis;
Food prices soar: Biggest annual gain in 32 years as inflation falters
Via John week
January 19, 2023 07:49 AMFood prices rose 1.1% in December and 11.3 percent higher than a year earlier.
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Grocery prices increased 11%, fruit and vegetable prices increased 23%, restaurant meals and ready-to-eat foods increased 7.8%.
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The Action Party today blamed Labor for rising food prices.
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“The government should stop strangling food manufacturers with bureaucracy and meaningless rules.”
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Food says tight labor market, rising wages, weaker NZ dollar, increase fertilizer cost for suppliers, and coming end fuel subsidies also affected the price.
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Socialism has always sought to kill agricultural production. The shortage of baby formula in the US is due to government intervention. In the Netherlands, Socialist politicians ordered the police to shoot the peasantsto enforce draconian climate action-inspired fertilizer rules. Sri Lankan socialists caused food crisis and economic collapse, by implementing organic farming nationwide, banning the import of fertilizers and agrochemicalsa move that at the time was glorified by western green.
Climate change is just the latest socialist excuse to intervene. Their endless interference, meaningless taxes and regulations, the pretentious bureaucratic belief that they know better than the people who work the land or manage the factories, always break something in the end. important things, such as people’s ability to buy enough food to feed themselves.
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