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New Zealand scraps plan to tax livestock burps, farts
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s centre-right government said Tuesday it is scrapping a scheme to price greenhouse gas emissions from livestock -- squelching a so-called burp tax.New legislation will be introduced to parliament this month to remove the agriculture sector from a new emissions pricing plan, it said.“The government is committed to meeting our climate change obligations without shutting down Kiwi farms,“ said Agriculture Minister Todd McClay.“It doesn’t make sense to send jobs and production overseas, while less carbon-efficient countries produce the food the world needs.”The New Zealand economy is driven by agriculture with around 10 million cattle and 25 million sheep roaming the nat

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