The only reason the bloody corporate farmers who are intensifying dairy suddenly care about the water is because they sense the outrage from voters at the way they have stolen and polluted our water ways while giving us expensive product because they charge us what they can get off shore.
Voters, environmentalists and consumers are sick of the way National have bent over backwards to farmers.
- National privatised our state assets to give farmers a $400 million irrigation slush fund.
- National took democracy away from Environment Canterbury to allow their farmer mates to take more water.
- National changed the bloody water quality rules to allow their farmer mates to continue to pollute our water ways.
- National pretend no one owns the water to allow their farmer mates to continue to steal and pollute while creating a loophole for water bottlers to exploit.
So after all that, we are to believe suddenly dairy intensifying farmers care about the water?
Fuck the fuck off!
This is the same industry that spends millions on TV propaganda adverts to try and con sleepy hobbits that nothing is wrong.
This is the same industry that threatened to gag Greenpeace over their adverts showing the truth.
This is the same industry that threatens journalists and scientists for criticising them.
We shouldn’t be looking at just hitting Farmers up with the true cost of their pollution, we should be going much further!
Instead of being forced to pay the same prices for produce made in NZ that overseas buyers are prepared to pay, which in turn inflates the cost to us, a ‘Kiwi Subsidy’ should apply.
The Kiwi Subsidy should be on all NZ produced produce and is paid by the industry to lower the cost to the domestic consumer rather than fleece us just because they can find a willing buyer who will pay more overseas.
We allow the agricultural industry to form monopolies and we allow them to take water and we allow them to import labour rather than employ NZers, and what do we as domestic consumers who allow all of this to happen get? Price gouging produce that we have to compete with a global market for.
I say screw that.
Domestic consumers have paid enough of a price by allowing monopolies to form, have our water polluted and taken and see jobs go offshore for this industry.
In return the agricultural industry owes us with a price for the product grown here that is lower than what the global demand can produce.
It is time for the industry that has taken so much to start giving back.
Agreed. And let’s slaughter 3 million cows and have a BBQ because everything is always better after a feed. Not kidding. The sacrifice must be made to appease the gods.
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Only a foreigner would question a kiwis right to a BBQ
Yeah Martyn another powerful selfish lobby group that think we are all stupid. Actions speak louder than their weasel words and just before our election how convenient trying to be seen to be doing something. Now who does this remind you of.
Swimmable rivers for their children and grandchildren perhaps they should add their great grandchildren and their great great grandchildren.
This group have had Phillipino workers brought here to appease them, tax paid irrigations schemes paid for by selling our assets that belong to all NZers. It’s all about them cause they feed all of NZ well we fed ourselves before they polluted our waterways.
Now come on Martyn you have just come down with a mild case of cowphobia ; deep down you know we need a strong economy and doubling cow numbers will assist in our long term prosperity .You can’t stop progress ……Yeah Right .
Humans produce about 1 ltr of waste per day cows around 14 ltrs per day .
With 1 million cows in Canterbury we have the the same amount of waste being dumped on the Canterbury plains every day as a ChCh city of 14 million people without a sewage system .
Every day .
That,s a poo mountain and intensive agriculture now wants to double cow numbers ? Fuck the fuck off.NZ has had enough and voting will reflect this Sept 23rd .
The nitrate levels in bore wells and ground water will continue to grow as the urine takes years to soak down even without double the cow numbers .Its a major public health issue .
Contamination of urban water supplies from proximate farmland ( eg:Hastings ) is a major public health issue .
The majority of rivers have either been sucked dry , are toxic to life or unswimable .
Its only a question of time before this impacts tourism and our fictional 100% Clean Green NZ marketing image.
Double the cow numbers will double methane green house gas emissions which will compound ,not assist with climate change obligations.
A ten cent tax on premium /export water over the current 73 water bottling companies will net NZ around 3 Billion a year with 90 % public approval of the greens premium water policy .
But national just gives it away to foreign owned companies for free who then make hundreds of millions of dollars profit and NZ gets nothing.
When intensive dairy has finally polluted all our ground and drinking water don’t worry ; because we can import our own drinking water back from china and pay $4 a litre for it .
Ive had enough, youv’e had enough , lets vote them out , lets do this .
It’s aimed at people who are considering voting National but are uncomfortable about what is happening to our waterways.
Gotta agree Martyn,frontera have been screwing over NZ customers ( in concert with the supermarket duopoly)..having us pay top dollar for their products while they pollute our land and waterways..They are all shit saying they now have a commitment to cleaning up their mess..talk about seeing the writing on the wall..I don’t buy their sudden conversion to giving a damn,it’s just words..like a torture wrought confession.
i say lets have real go at the farmers they don’t vote green or labour anyway
make them pay for there pollution and green house gas emissions
NZ was set up as a corporation, with the specific intention of extracting mineral wealth and agricultural wealth.
Throughout its colonial history NZ suffered the dire effect of policies geared to establishment of sheep farms and dairy farms; that meant chopping down millions of trees, or even burning them as they stood.
Then, in the 1870s, came the Rothschild-funded rail system to extract the wealth produced on remote farms and get it to ports to send it overseas.
Then came the fertilizer subsidies, to force the land to produce more than it naturally could.
Then came the livestock subsidies, to encourage farmers to overstock the land and generate ‘national’ income by sheer numbers.
Then came the second-hand fertiliser factory, to convert natural gas into urea, and to further subsidise agricultural production.
And then came the huge trucks that cart fertilisers and agricultural products hundreds of kilometres, and the subsidies to the road transport lobby groups.
And the ‘carbon trading’ scam, to make money for speculators on financial markets whilst totally failing to address the matter of carbon dioxide emissions (Thanks Helen Clark).
So now we march down the path towards environmental meltdown, with politicians cheerleading the way to self-destruction and rewarding their mates with short-termism of the most extreme form.
And anyone who opposes the insanity of it all is called ‘extreme’.
It’s more likely they see an economic opportunity – siphoning fresh water off their land for whole sale export.
Would love to have seen a cow pad land on Smith’s head whilst he was showboating in the river, then it would have confirmed to us the fact that Smith has shit for brains.
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