Farmers are like university students – they’re never happy.
They are currently taking faux offence like a bunch of triggered woke activists by claiming Jacinda said that farming was a ‘world that had passed’…
Being ‘picked on’ not in the past for farmers: Claim PM ‘out of touch’
A comment from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Tuesday night’s leaders debate has ignited a backlash from farmers.
“If I may, that feels like the view of the world that has passed,” she said, responding to National Party leader Judith Collins’ comments that as a child growing up on a dairy farm, Collins was “proud as punch” of her parents, and that today farmers felt picked on over environmental issues by the Labour-Green coalition.
…which led to breathless screaming from the Fucking National Party…
…but did she actually say that?
pretty clear from the context the PM was not saying farming was a “world that has passed.” pic.twitter.com/oj4Rcpt1xN
— henry cooke (@henrycooke) September 22, 2020
…right, so she didn’t say it.
So, while the PM most certainly DID NOT SAY farming was a ‘world that has passed’ – the truth of course is that it is!
Synthetic milk and meat make it a sunset industry and the sooner we decouple it from our economic future, the less painful it will be.
The economic success of NZ has been built on stealing Māori land, handing it to corporate Farmers and never paying it back. Those corporate farmers who feed the rest of the world however steal water, pollute water, create vast climate change emissions and cause vast animal misery.
I care about the farmer who feeds me, I don’t give two shits about the corporate farmer who feeds someone else overseas.
We want to support and love and respect those farmers feeding us with sustainable meat and produce, but the corporate farmers are a plague we need to eliminate and with the leaps and bounds coming out of the synthetic meat and milk industry, their economic privilege is coming to an end.
The vast vast vast majority of milk product sold from NZ is powder used as a bulk ingredient in highly processed food, the moment synthetic milk powder can replace the real stuff for a fraction of the cost, those markets will dump us in a split second.
When you consider the huge debt dairy intensification has cause many farmers, they are trapped in a rigged game they can’t win.
NZ has coasted on its ability to grow grass on stolen land for a very long time.
Dairy is a world that will pass.
The plural of Farmers is a ‘grumble’ of Farmers.
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Excellent comments–stolen land–settler descendent denial–commercial grade degradation and animal cruelty.
As an aside, did anyone ever track down who our friend with the Pretty Communist sign was?
corporate farmers
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Lets all make a note of that, shall we? and lets all take note that behind every CORPORATE FARMER is a CORPORATE AUSTRALIAN BANK. Or some other FORIEGN INTEREST GROUP.
NOW WHO WERE / ARE STILL THE CEO’s OF THE China / China Construction Bank (New Zealand) Limited, – and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)?- none other than Don Brash and Jenny Shipley. How VERY convenient.
I think somewhere among all that MURK, you will find your answers.
Funny how they all happen to be fellow travelers’ of Judith Collins…
INNI’T IT.
Cow shit and fertilizers are killing the landscape and waterways. Smart farmers are working there way through the issues. The stupid are doing the Trump. The public lost patience with mega farming some time ago, lets put them to the sword, go Cindy.
@Dog ranger. I totally agree with you. There are some responsible farmers out there who are doing what they can to keep the waterways clean and to maintain more sustainable farming with as little impact on the environment and climate as possible. But yes, then there are the other types who just won’t change and who snarl and snap when they see what the responsible farmers are doing as a threat to their out of date methods.
The public not only lost patience with mega farming long ago, but they have also lost patience with the old die-hards who won’t change.
We already know that National are PROFESSIONAL LIARS and that they misrepresent everything. Judith is just he latest in a long, long line of professional liars and misrepresenters.
As for ‘synthetic milk and meat’, well you can forget them! Both are products of industrialised agriculture and both require the input of humungous amounts of fossil fuels. Not only that but also consider that the nutritional value of industrially manufactured ‘food’ (it isn’t really food, and our ancestors would have had serious intestinal problems if they had ingested it) is always lower than the naturally formed version.
This low nutritional value has been most vividly demonstrated in the case of chicken meat: free range chickens develop better meat containing the right kinds of fats; chickens raised in production houses are of a lower nutritional value and contain the wrong kinds of fats.
If all that were not bad enough, there is the matter of destruction of nature in order to make room for the production of industrial ingredients of synthetic ‘foods’. Palm oil is a classic example of an industrially generated product that is inexorably linked with the deforestation of vast swathes of the planet and near extinction of species such as orangutans. Then there is soy bean, which is grown where once there was Amazon jungle or biodiverse savannah. And it is shipped around the world to feed animals in confined animal production systems, where animals are tortured continually during their brief existence on Earth.
As with so many other aspects of our lives, industrial food is the problem, not the answer.
Animal farming is cruel, uneconomic and pumps methane into the atmosphere. So what is the answer? Veganism?
Whilst it would be good to see us move away from these industries its worth remembering how Labour chickened out on proper clean water policies which stands to prop up said industries not to mention its dismal failure on climate change in general. National in fairness are even worse.
Fact is this conversation should not just be focused on two parties as there are now a lot of other parties on the scene under MMP.
Why not examine their policies and see what they have to offer? How they stack up this coming election? Its not a two horse race after all…..
Yawn, triggered snowflake left-wing bloggers screaming at Judith is boring. See how that works? Yeah, it’s just as dumb. Blogs entries like this will probably lead me voting for ACT instead of Labour, because if this is seriously the mentality of Labour/Green voters I want no part of it.
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