A little investigative journalism could have found some facts for this item. I'm amazed at how uninformed some people are in this area, but considering the non-journalism of the TV stations, I gues its no surprise. Factory farms (not local farmers) produce gas and waste products that are destroying environments, making people sik and polluting waters. Here are some links: The Meatrix video explains it surprisingly well: http://www.themeatrix.com/ the National Resource Defense Council has studies and pictures: http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/nspills.asp manure lagoon destroys fish http://www.factoryfarm.org/?page_id=19

The global carbon taxes will be imposed and collected by THE BANKS!!! This is tyranny and we should all refuse to pay for this. This is a "tool" that will drive the small producer out of business. Corporate farming is on the way with their genetically modified foods, growth hormones, contaminated milk and the like. Man mad global warming is a scam. 650 scientists weigh in:

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri’s asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it’s hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata.

Who burps and farts the most, cows or people. The people who support such legislation are so full of ____ that one fart from them would be equivalent to 1000 cow farts. Anyone who votes for this should be voted out of office and replaced by horses. At least they (horses) have horse sense.

Cow tax? What about all the buildings that are torn down every day, Wal Mart, Lowes come to mind. These buildings were all structurally sound. think of all the wasted fuel, landfill space pollution. Fairmont residents don't forget the unfinished bypass and the empty houses that are home to rats etc. Dont waste time , money on fart tax Think of all the money wasted to do this silly study...All the trees that will have to die to spread the story ,in triplicate, Hey wait that study adds to global warming.

Several years ago they wanted a tree tax, now this. I am so fed up. Send Al Gore and his cronies to the South Pole and do not let them return. I want to keep, and breed even more cows.

I thought I had heard everything... but a burp and fart tax!? There is more hot air released in one session of congress than the burps and farts of every cow and hog in this country expells in a year! I would like to know who in the hell sponsered this proposal. We have two ongoing wars, our economy is in the tank, our infrastructure is falling down around our ears, unemployment is the highest it's been in twenty years, and the people of almost every country on the planet thinks we are a bunch of arrogant dogs, and we want to pass cow fart legislation. These people need to get a life.

Well, burp. excuse me! Wake up America if this sort of tax would be implemented by the Government, we are in trouble. What happen to the taxation without representation. Remember the Boston Tea Party? It was mild probably and not like the next one that will be put on. Besides Global Warming is a lot better than the Global Freezing we have occasionally. So let the cows fart!

Really,a fart tax. Only someone who is full of crap could think of this.

TAXING A FARMER BECAUSE HIS LIVESTOCK BURPS OR FARTS? IS THIS THE BEST WE GOT LEADING US? PEOPLE LAID OFF IN RECORD NUMBERS BANKS FAILING AND YET WE WORRY ABOUT GETTING A DOLLAR FROM FARMER FRED BECAUSE BESSIE FARTED IN THE FIELD PLEASE.

A tax for farting and burping animals, and are government has the audacity to call this a free country, they must need the money so they can give it to another country to buy more friends, IDIOTS