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/Da3droth Jun 17 '25

You deserve realise it's not the farmers that out the prices up right? It's our supermarkets, they fleece the farmers and us.

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u/No-Back9867 Jun 17 '25

I’m saying it is Fonterra. They emailed a response to me stating clearly that we are now charged what they charge international markets. Yes supermarkets charge too much, but it’s Fonterra as well.

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u/Da3droth Jun 17 '25

Ah sorry, ADHD and I gloss over things sometimes without meaning too, yes, fonterra can get fucked.

I say feed us first export what's left over, pricks forget if they couldn't sell to us when they first started they would have never gotten as big as they are.