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A UN-Approved Christmas Dinner, by Ralph R. Reiland The American Spectator
** The year-end news isn’t pretty. The dictatorship-dominated United Nations has its eye on our Christmas hams as a key source of allegedly man-made global warming and planetary suicide. *** To control our carbon footprint, says Dr. Pachauri, we should “reduce meat consumption.” A good world-saving lunch would be an internationally sanctioned broccoli burger, minus the cheese, unless we can find some zero-emitting heifers or develop some kind of methane-capturing cow diapers. **
New Zealand farmers, meanwhile, have found a way to fight back:
** In a “Raise a Stink” campaign earlier this year, farmers in New Zealand mailed reeking parcels of sheep and cow manure to members of Parliament to protest a proposed flatulence tax. The new levy is designed to empty tens of millions of dollars from the pockets of farmers, raise meat prices, meet the government’s commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and pay for research into methane gas emissions from agricultural animals. The nation’s postal service complained that the campaign was a threat to the physical and mental health of postal workers. **