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Dairy farmers urged to stop using palm oil by-product - Video

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00
Dairy farmers are being blamed for the destruction of tropical rain forests. New Zealand cows ate more than 1 million tonnes of palm kernels last year - a quarter of the world's total consumption of the palm oil by-product. - read full story »
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Comments [5]

tegan
14 Oct 2009 9:46a.m.

wwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww

Beth
26 Aug 2009 10:23a.m.

So I'm sure all New Zealander's would be happier if NZ farmers stopped producing dairy and exporting and providing the country herself with natural produce? I know that after the flood then the drought there was no other feed readily available to feed the cows - so they would rather let the cows and our economy die? The low production counts of maize/silage and hay produced because of the floods followed by the drought resulted in the prices being seriously hiked up for what little was available. The other problem being that when fed enormous amounts of silage and hay the cows suffer anyway. Palm kernel was the most affordable reasonable thing to use at the time. Most farmers at the moment cant afford their mortgage with the low payout price let alone to buy alternative food sources for the cows in such tough times. Perhaps if other better sources were available then go for it - but in the circumstances i say good on them/ Obviously NZ'ers are forgetting this > ?

Twyla
24 Aug 2009 1:44a.m.

Greetings from the USA. As a Kiwi living overseas, I will let folks know this atrocity! Once the word gets out, some importing countries of NZ dairy products will stop. There is a strong feeling over here that healthy for me should be healthy for all. Plants and animals included.

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