Stupid research to be doing during a recession

As I was reading the Wall Street Journal in the Student Center today, I realized why I generally do not read the WSJ- because some of their news is stupid. Who needs the Daily Show/Colbert Report for stupid (although quite entertaining news and labeled as a comedy) news when the WSJ is printing news about possible taxation OF SHEEP BURBS! That's right, a farm in New Zealand is measuring the amount of methane that sheep emit when they "belch" as the classy WSJ put it, and as I continued to read this article (the reason why I continued to read this escapes me) it says that since methane gas is the most devastating of the greenhouse gases, governments may begin to tax bovine burps!! AND YES I AM 100% serious. Read the article, and then tell me it's more important than (or on the same level as because this wonderful story was ON THE FRONT PAGE) the economic crisis, or the fact that the stock market is currently up, which I think is HIGHLY important, and frankly don't care about sheep, burbing or otherwise.

Jeez what has the world come to? What are we going to tax next- the whistling puppy?