You know when Greenpeace are being effective when Federated Farmers come out swinging.
On the early morning segment of the AM SHow this morning, Federated Farmers were on attacking Greenpeace of spreading disinformation about nitrate in water causing cancer.
I know.
Gasp inducing right?
Here’s Otago University, hardly an outpost of anti-Farming sentiment…
An oversupply of nitrate, particularly in the absence of antioxidants, can cause formation of N-nitroso compounds ( NOC ), many of which are proven causes of cancer.
…yeah.
Federated Farmers are panicking that the obvious impacts of farming intensification are now impossible to scientifically hide…
‘Sobering’ snapshot of NZ’s freshwater decline released
One expert says a new report on New Zealand’s declining freshwater quality is a “sobering snapshot” of how the country’s “economic and physical well-being” is being harmed without additional Government action.
The report, jointly authored by the Environment Ministry and Stats NZ, collates and outlines the latest data and research about the country’s water bodies.
Otago University environmental health researcher Tim Chambers said it was a “sobering snapshot” of the state of New Zealand’s freshwater ecosystems.
He said the report “clearly showed” that further action is “required to protect our freshwater for our physical and economic well-being”.
“An estimated 45% of our river length is not suitable for swimming due to bacterial contamination. In 2017, 1200 people got sick after reporting contact with recreational water.”
Chambers said bacterial contamination at tested sites was either getting worse or not getting better.
…of course 45% our rivers are poisoned!
A cow shits the same as 14 humans, we have 10 million cows, that’s the equivalent of 140million humans pissing and shitting into our rivers, but fuck that – MORE COWS!
Right wing climate deniers, Boomers who don’t like being told they’ve contributed in any way shape or form to the current climate catastrophes and those who profit from cow pollution will scream climate change is a socialist hoax and that’s why not one precious cow life will be culled ever because every calf is scared!
Farmers are 1.16% of the population, represent 5.5% of GDP, make 48% of greenhouse gas emissions and create 70% of NZ’s contribution to global warming yet they are able to run roughshod over any legislative reigning in because the have such enormous political and economic power!
They will claim every criticism of them is disinformation and their vast political muscle will ensure that message is dutifully conveyed in the media.
The ease with which their message is accepted shows how bovine our heard like debate is.
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All that has to happen is the creation of some clean green industries to replace this.
Exports The top exports of New Zealand are Concentrated Milk ($11.1B), Sheep and Goat Meat ($4.35B), Rough Wood ($4.31B), Frozen Bovine Meat ($3.77B), and Butter ($3.28B), exporting mostly to China ($22.5B), Australia ($8.03B), United States ($7.18B), Japan ($3.76B), and South Korea ($2.06B)
This has been NZs economic problem for 150 years. Dissing farmers doesn’t solve it. Farmers just enable the rest of us to buy shit at The Warehouse.
I don’t think all farming forms pollute at the same rate. Isn’t Dairy way more problematic than dry stock or sheep farming etc? The water quality in the Ashburton area has deteriorated due to dairy conversion. And banning synthetic fertilisers is not the same as stopping farming. Everyone deals in absolutes, like it’s all or nothing. Bollocks
Fairy-minded federated farmers eh. Show them a scientific paper giving them facts and they swoon. Trouble is the people at the top have stopped thinking along farming lines and gone to people-herding and not piles of manure but piles of money.
It makes scaredy cats of them all and certain words set them off, exchange rate, inflation, pollution, stocking rates and they won’t even allow their wives to wear stockings to avoid that word cropping up, but then even ‘cropping’ is sensitive. But irrigation of pockets and irrigation of pastures are so entwined that it is impossible to ban that word from dairy farmers and financiers and farm owners’ lexicon. Dear dear, please handle these big men and women softly as their bulk has illusory strength. The bigger they are the harder they fall – and that thought bothers them.
I’m just saying if you want to cut back dairy farming or provide greater environmental protection then you need to remove the export income economic incentive that reinforces the status quo. To do that you need new export industries otherwise you have a balance of payments problem. Alternatively you can stop immigration. Every immigrant requires a few more dairy cows to earn the required overseas currency to keep the immigrant in the lifestyle they are seeking here.
Seeing the big picture is useful. Since it was set up, NZ Inc has exploited the environment in order to export primary produce, notwithstanding a very few niche industries. And you’re spot on Joseph, it’s what gives us the foreign exchange to buy all the stuff we need and dont need. It couldn’t be clearer.
What has changed is increasing intensification, especially in regions that shouldn’t support dairying in the first place. But ya know what is said, the lure of white gold is hard to resist in the age of corporatization and free markets. What hasn’t changed are ways of fertilizing land that cant sustain stock numbers.
Really, it’s just bs when the farming industry denies the science around water quality.
Yes Joseph, I blame the Warehouse as well for all our climate challenge s. In the old days we used to Knitt and weld things back together. Now we just buy cheap goods to end up in land fill a month later.
Looks like a man with his gun that I saw on a duck shooting magazine. He had a keen eye and some dead ducks, a woollen cap and a large jowl. A large practical man who looked self-satisfied that knew all he needed to know. It seemed a template for backwoods country man.
Don’t worry country boy . You can still go Duck shooting.
New Zealanders pay triple for primary industries: we pay for the pollution, we pay highest retail price of product on the international market (even if it’s grown on the farm next door), and we pay in fear for the day that dairy has to finally clean up its act which will absolutely trigger Mr. Porkchop above, transforming him from environmental abuser to economic bandit with threats of supply chain disruptions and higher prices.
Oh well I can put up an argument about these claims of pollution so I’ll let the other blighters get on with it and do my own thing. It’s not my bloody responsibility to take on any problems – the government should be making it easier for us farmers and ‘cow cockies’ and Queen Street/Oz/Californika owners and assorted others to get on with the solid revenue stuff. That’s
what everyone is yelling out for isn’t it? /Sarc
Lamb/ButterMilk prices went straight to his cheeks. Fat cunt.
Farmers in NZ are arseholes.
They have zero care for our land of people. They are bank puppets.
Meh. Get a fucking spine rural NZ!
Agree with ya Sinic the farmers have far too much to say and should shut the fuck up M bovis cost us millions and when there is a flood or disaster they cry and bitch and keep putting their hands out yet when others want help, they are quick to put the boot in.
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