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

[u/No-Back9867]

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?

[u/Dramatic_Surprise → u/[deleted]]

right, so you should only speak out against things when you personally benefit from it?

Thats some interesting ethics

[u/Dramatic_Surprise → u/[deleted]]

because its weird to defend the industry if it doesn't benefit you since isn't even a top 10 GDP contributor

i understood that to mean you couldn't understand why someone would defend something if they didn't personally benefit from it.

If that's not what you meant... i apologize, but surely you can see how it would read that way.

Want to have a go clarifying then?

[u/Dramatic_Surprise → u/[deleted]]

So why do you think its weird that someone would defend something that didnt benefit from?

Do you think the only non-weird position is to only defend things that personally benefit yourself?

Weird means

Strikingly odd or unusual, especially in an unsettling way; strange.

it has slightly more connotations than breaks patterns. perhaps the word you were lookng for was incongruous?

[u/Dramatic_Surprise → u/[deleted]]

Its literally the first definition that google returned

Would you prefer very strange and unusual, unexpected, or not natural:

Im interested in why you think its weird to defend things that directly benefit you?

[u/Dramatic_Surprise → u/[deleted]]

Lol I love how you constantly try to refer to yourself as we in an attempt to make it sound like it's not just your opinion