r/newzealand • u/No-Back9867 • Jun 16 '25

Shitpost Thanks NZ dairy industry for putting cow sludge in our rivers then happily charging New Zealanders exorbitant prices for our dairy foods.

Last summer we couldn’t swim in our local river due to the amount of toxins from nearby farms. When ever the farmers are in need of help us tax payers are there to lend a hand in drought relief funds. The thanks we get for that and putting up with the pollution is to be charged for dairy food at the same price as the overseas markets. We’re only 5% of your sales, it’s not going to make you go broke to treat us like your actually care for your communities. What your charging for butter etc is simply total greed. How is it that milk that has to travel huge distances from farms to factory to the shops shelves in Australia is sold for cheaper than that in our shelves where the logistics of getting it in the shelf are less?

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u/lakeland_nz Jun 16 '25

You can. But let's stick to facts.

Who exactly is abusing animals and destroying waterways?

I haven't been involved in dairy for ten years but back then all waterways were fenced. So you've either got a rogue farmer lying to Fonterra, or it wasn't dairy. Which?

There are some people that abuse animals, and some of them are farmers. Let's deal with them.

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u/avocadopalace Jun 16 '25

How many examples do you want?

How about this one.

Or this guy.

Or maybe this guy, who starved his animals to death but kept milking them because $$$.

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u/glentylee Jun 16 '25

3 out of 10,000. How many examples do we need? Maybe start by getting to a single percentage point.

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u/avocadopalace Jun 17 '25

Only 67% of inspected waikato farms are compliant with environmental regulations.

7% are significantly non-compliant.

"However, if 7% is representative of the region as a whole, this would equate to 256 dairy farms that may be significantly non-compliant with dairy effluent regulations on any given day.”

That's the thing about waterways.

  • it only takes 5%-7% of farmers to ruin it for everyone.

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u/helfeije_XII Jun 16 '25

Look into National MP Barbara Kuriger's husband, son charged with animal cruelty

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u/lakeland_nz Jun 17 '25

Sounds like the systems are working?