My mum grew up on a sheep farm in Ikawai, South Canterbury. When my uncle sold the farm in the 1990s it was converted to dairy along with a lot of sheep farms in the area. Many famers took on significant debt to the banks to fund these conversions, The banks need to be held to account for all the shit in South Canterbury water, as they have profited handsomely from the dairy conversions.
The unpalatable truth for most New Zealanders is that the best way to cut nitrate levels (and to stand a chance of meeting our Paris agreement emissions targets) would be to stop farming animals and grow plants for people to eat instead…
The stats are already showing. NZ has some of the highest rates of Bowel.Cancer in the OECD. Here's a resource that shows where it's concentrated: https://www.hqsc.govt.nz/assets/resources/Health-Quality-Evaluation/Atlas/BowelCancerSF/atlas.html
My mum grew up on a sheep farm in Ikawai, South Canterbury. When my uncle sold the farm in the 1990s it was converted to dairy along with a lot of sheep farms in the area. Many famers took on significant debt to the banks to fund these conversions, The banks need to be held to account for all the shit in South Canterbury water, as they have profited handsomely from the dairy conversions.
The unpalatable truth for most New Zealanders is that the best way to cut nitrate levels (and to stand a chance of meeting our Paris agreement emissions targets) would be to stop farming animals and grow plants for people to eat instead…