Australia: New Zealand's scrapped methane tax is a sign of more balance in cows and climate change talk

The formal ditching of a controversial tax on livestock methane in New Zealand is being heralded as a solid sign of more balanced global commentary on the role of red meat in the climate solution. Australian cattle and sheep industry leaders say the move adds significantly to more recent international discourse recognising that livestock are essential to both feeding the world and protecting natural resources. The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation food roadmap, released at the end of last year, has led the way by identifying that animal protein will be critical to eradicating global hunger and malnutrition while turning agrifood systems into a carbon sink to help address climate change. Cattle Australia's Garry Edwards said more and more data and science to back that was now coming to the forefront internationally, which was putting a more balanced view of cows and methane into the climate solution discussion. "We are seeing more highlighting of the problems with ...