If MPI put in as much energy attacking Mycoplasma bovis as they do Rachel Stewart and Duncan Garner we wouldn’t have a problem

By
Martyn Bradbury
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Latest MPI media release 

I don’t believe this!

Fresh from trying to turn Farmers against Rachel Stewart’s criticism of the utter incompetence of MPI, they have lashed out now at Duncan Garner’s righteous criticism,

Duncan Garner’s recent opinion piece about MPI’s response to Mycoplasma bovis is factually incorrect in places, and unintelligible in others.

At the start of the piece Mr Garner suggests that MPI let the disease into the country. New Zealand has a robust biosecurity system, and there are a raft of success stories that demonstrate how effective it has been.

But to suggest, as Mr Garner has done, that New Zealand can be totally water-tight and any incursions are due to MPI “letting” it into the country are untrue and unfair.

…no, it wasn’t untrue and it wasn’t unfair!

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MPI are there to barely regulate anyone operating in our Primary Industries, they are more concerned with Industry rights than the wider economy or environment.

Their obscene decision to not prosecute appalling abuses inside the fishing industry shows how deep their devotion to Industry truly is.

This is a public service that does the public a disservice. they have been so run down and underfunded they are a toothless watchdog that has become a lapdog to those they are supposed to guard against.

Watching their desperate attempts to attack critics while their incompetence continues to go unabated should be a walk up call to us all. We have allowed neoliberal Governments to offer these shallow safeguards and lacklustre oversight, we must all collectively take responsibility for the pitiful public service we have been left with.

Our Government Agencies are as useless at looking after cows as they are beneficiaries and miners.

10 COMMENTS

  1. Absolutely true martymn,

    MPI are blooody useless as they have allowed everything to slip therough our ‘bioio-security screen in the years past.

    We got angintine ant invasion and then god knows what else but never recieved any complaints from the national Government then did they just.

    National are so fucking slack they engineered the situation where they leave a “shell” called MPI and nothing to fight with it.

    Just as they stripped employment/assets/costs out of every agency from the Ministry of transport, kiwirail, and on and on it goes.

    So they are truly responsible for the destruxction, we now face the fucking ass-holes.

    These agrncies excecutives should be taken to court and sued for massive destruction of our health wellbeing and loss of industrial profit.

    “crimes against the people is what they did.”

  2. Seems to me that we can’t blame MPI for the original entry. It was only a matter of time. But the slack oversight of cattle trading between farmers trying to dodge the taxman is another matter.

    From Rural Life:

    “MPI is looking at seven possible means of entry: Imported live cattle, imported frozen semen, imported embryos, imported veterinary medicines and biological products, imported feed, imported used farm equipment and other imported live animals. MPI warns it may never be able to identify how it got into the country.”

  3. It’s fair enough to attack MPI for a variety of reasons. To suggest that MPI “let the disease into the country” and “allowed everything to slip through our bio-security screen in the years past” begs other questions though.

    Parallel; Through good luck more than anything else a $448m haul of methamphetamine was picked up on 90 Mile Beach. The circumstances around that suggest that other big hauls are most likely to have made it through.

    So do we say police or border control officials ‘allow’ or ‘let’ those in?

    If someone was determined to import semen (or whatever) which turned out to be contaminated, and their wiles and ways and circumstances were ahead of anything MPI could possibly do, should MPI be blamed?

    Someone last week said the only to be sure everything problematic stops getting into the country is to stop everything coming into the country. And then the wind will get you with something like myrtle rust.

  4. Hey I’d just like to ask, why they killed all the potentially resistant and immune cows. Those cows were bred for generations to be excellent and our mug noob politurds have exterminated the potential for an immune breed by wasting all the cows! Idiotic. Negligence. Ignorance. GTFO noob politurds

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