industrial dairy Archive

  • Catherine Delahunty

    The social cost of industrial dairying - by Catherine Delahunty



    This weekend I attended the Te Wai Pounamu Green Women’s Hui at the Glenburn Youth Camp in the heart of new dairy country. On the way, we flew in over an altered plain with giant circles marking out the irrigation of the vast fields. Others drove and noticed massive irrigators pumping in every field despite [...] read more
    November 9, 2010 3:31 pm - 7 Comments
  • frog

    Calves starve to death on NZ’s largest dairy farm - by frog



    Yep, it’s the Crafar boys again. From interest.co.nz: Poor management and the pressures of massive debts obtained during rapid expansion meant this farm was so poorly managed that none of the staff trained the calves to drink milk, allowing them to die of dehydration in a muddy pen even though their trough was often full. [...] read more
    September 29, 2009 11:26 am - 10 Comments
  • frog

    Greenpeace converts Key’s Helensville office to industrial dairy - by frog



    Oh bless! Greenpeace carried out a “dairy conversion” on National Party leader John Key’s electorate office early this morning to highlight the issue of deforestation for intensive dairying. Intensive dairying is one of New Zealand’s biggest contributors to climate change. Photo credit: Greenpeace read more
    October 30, 2008 10:23 am - 22 Comments
  • frog

    Industrial dairy could hurt the summer BBQ - by frog



    OK, so barbecued lamb chops are not really my major concern with large scale dairy conversions, but it seems they (dairy conversions) are partly to blame for the ratio of sheep to people falling from 22 sheep for every person in 1982 to 8 to 1 today: Economic Service executive director Rob Davison says the [...] read more
    August 9, 2008 8:57 am - 37 Comments
  • frog

    Industrial dairy’s big payout - by frog



    While it is good to see some of our farmers doing well I do have to wonder what Fonterra’s record payout for dairy farmers ($7.30 per kilogram of milk solids, up from $4.46/kg last year) will do to further encourage dairy conversions. New Zealand is currently rapidly converting diverse farms and forests into a monolith [...] read more
    April 11, 2008 3:04 pm - 22 Comments