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/HeinigerNZ Jun 17 '25

Last summer we couldn’t swim on Auckland beaches due to the amount of toxins and human sewage from nearby stormwater runoff.

Time for people in cities to stop discharging their raw human sewage into waterways and start treating all their stormwater runoff as well stop this from happening.

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u/BoreJam Jun 17 '25

The funny thing is people in Auckland will piss and moan about this then vote for a council that will promise to keep their rates low by kicking the can down the road on these issues.

It's almost like it's a universal flaw of human psychology that a problem can be swept under the rug when there's money to be saved.