{"id":12822,"date":"2015-01-15T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12822"},"modified":"2015-01-13T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T01:53:47","slug":"cnsnews-kerry-gets-it-wrong-on-climates-impact-on-new-zealand-dairy-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/15\/cnsnews-kerry-gets-it-wrong-on-climates-impact-on-new-zealand-dairy-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"(CNSNews) &#8220;Kerry Gets it Wrong on Climate&#8217;s Impact on New Zealand Dairy Farmers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"userContent\">EXCERPT: With a population of just 4.47 million, New Zealand has more cows (4.9 million dairy and about four million beef cows) and many more sheep (around 30 million), than it has people.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer number of cows and sheep prompted a Lab<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">or government in 2003 to propose introducing a tax on flatulence \u2013 methane emitted from both ends of the animals is considered a \u201cgreenhouse gas\u201d \u2013 but it backed down in the face of a farmer-led protest campaign under the slogan Fight Against Ridiculous Taxes, (FART).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/patrick-goodenough\/kerry-gets-it-wrong-climate-s-impact-new-zealand-s-dairy-farmers\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/patrick-goodenough\/kerry-gets-it-wrong-climate-s-impact-new-zealand-s-dairy-farmers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nzcows.jpe\" alt=\"nzcows\" width=\"484\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nzcows.jpe 484w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nzcows-300x156.jpe 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: With a population of just 4.47 million, New Zealand has more cows (4.9 million dairy and about four million beef cows) and many more sheep (around 30 million), than it has people. The sheer number of cows and sheep prompted a Labor government in 2003 to propose introducing a tax on flatulence \u2013 methane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12824,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822\/revisions\/12824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}