Who Says Big Brother Isn’t Watching?
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
In this day and age of more and more government with greater emphasis on how citizens should comply with whatever socially-appropriate belief, we are interested in reading about this developing information from across the pond. While this is probably more of a scientific sort of venture, the notation that there might be a future in labeling food products on the basis of their “carbon footprint” and the zealous nature of our elected officials to scramble aboard whatever politically-correct next thing might be – get ready cause our cows might also be destined for microphones and other burp-measuring tools.
We’re probably already looking at having a tax on livestock gas expulsion by virtue of something coming sometime soon from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In this day and age of more and more government with greater emphasis on how citizens should comply with whatever socially-appropriate belief, we are interested in reading about this developing information from across the pond. While this is probably more of a scientific sort of venture, the notation that there might be a future in labeling food products on the basis of their “carbon footprint” and the zealous nature of our elected officials to scramble aboard whatever politically-correct next thing might be – get ready cause our cows might also be destined for microphones and other burp-measuring tools.
We’re probably already looking at having a tax on livestock gas expulsion by virtue of something coming sometime soon from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Posted by Doug Busselman at 8/21/2009 9:04 AM 
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Livestock Green House Gas Emissions Global Warming
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Livestock Green House Gas Emissions Global Warming
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