Unbelievable!
Another capitulation to intensive farming???
Winter grazing backdown shows Ardern Govt “owned” by big dairy – GREENPEACE
Greenpeace says the Labour Government’s delay in implementing already-weak intensive winter grazing regulations is yet another example of them buckling to New Zealand’s “dirtiest industry.”
Environment Minister David Parker and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor announced the delay this evening at a DairyNZ function.
“Leaving a bad practice unregulated and thanking industry for their promises to make it slightly better is no substitute for getting rid of it, as the Government should be doing with intensive winter grazing,” says Greenpeace Senior Campaigner Steve Abel.
What the bloody hell do intensive farmers have to do to their animals before Labour will actually step in and force basic animal welfare and pollution standards?
How come intensive farming which steal the most water, pollutes the most water, abuses the most animals and generates the most pollution get away with no enforcement of even the most mild regulation?
Does Dairy NZ have David Parkers pets held hostage? Are they blackmailing Damien O’Conner with compromising photos?
The power and influence of Big Dairy to continue deciding what regulations they will or won’t agree to is breathtaking for a sunset industry that will be obliterated when synthetic meat and milk are chap enough.
If the welfare of the animals, pollution of the water and creation of climate change gases won’t move you, allowing an industry who doesn’t know it’s extinct yet to continue abusing the rules is surly a capitalist sin that can’t be tolerated.
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NZ’s Dirty Secret – Foreign Correspondence aired this on Australian TV Tues night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_mrSrvlFlQ
The PM Ms. Ardern and her Govt telling lies at 14:00.
The farmer is basically a polluting criminal.
And now the Australians and hopefully the rest of the world can see just how clean and green we are NOT!
LOL. Now that hyper tourism and tick-a-box foreign students are on pause until at least the medium term it’s all we’ve got outside of a few boutique industries/businesses. For better or worse we export animal byproducts -start, middle, end.
It will be Robbo behind the scenes Bomber – he’ll be crapping his panties regarding a recession given that Q4 results were akin to a death at a wedding. He’s a vain and proud character and hell will freeze over before he let’s his ‘mates’ in big business have a laugh on him that he can’t manage the economy.
Yes farmers can be moaners and whingers and at times resemble a 2 year old being told he/she couldn’t have a new toy however through the last 12 months they have saved the economic bacon of NZ and without them our position would be (read debt) a whole lot fucking worse.
Parker has but told to STFU for a while and ‘danger’ Dammo has been told to look for the corner in a round room.
I was born to third generation dairy farming heritage on both sides of my family over 60 years ago.
My grandparents on my mother’s side of the family practised a low stress dairy cow farm system. This meant it was rare to call a vet. Because of the era there was no bulk spreading of fertiliser, instead the harrows behind the tractor followed the herd from paddock to paddock and weed control was done manually eg chipping thistles out with a spade.
They also had a healthy number of trees and hedges across the farm which gave shelter and shade to the animals. There was an impressive orchard which filled the preserving cupboard. There were 200 laying hens that were free range during the day and there were pigs who had their own paddock.
The biodiversity of their farm was not recognised until my father who dairy farmed and where I grew up mentioned regularly that my grandfather never called a vet whereas, because of changes pushed on us by Ruakura and peer pressure from farmers groups, the vet was a common visitor to our area. Intensification and higher production demands have been at the expense of both the animals, land and waterways. Sadly there does not seem to be anyone in Wellington capable of slowing down the Dairy juggernaut and I think if my Grandfather had been alive today he would be appalled by the large majority of dairy farming practices.
“Animals run no risk of going to Hell, they are already there” – Victor Hugo
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