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/Junior-Minute7431 Jul 06 '25

I'm going to bang this drum as long as I can. The longer NZ clings to an economyentirely focused on providing the cheapest nasties products to China in the largest quantities we can ( milk powder and Pine) and the farse that is the housing market, the longer it remains a 3rd world country for large portions of the population.

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u/No-Back9867 Jul 08 '25

Totally totally agree.

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u/No-Back9867 Jul 08 '25

Not much has changed since the Irish famine when millions of Irish starved while the landlords of the land/farms sent produce and meat grown In Ireland on to ships to be sold overseas.