FUNGI that produce deadly toxins that could pass into the human food chain through cow’s milk were found in imported palm kernel animal feed, according to a confidential AgResearch report that came to public attention only last week.
There’s hardly a living Pom who doesn’t remember Anchor Butter’s “singing cows” TV commercials. They featured pure-bred, full-tailed Jerseys prancing around lush green fields, sometimes even playing football (but not Rugby) and trilling on about their “free-range” life, feeding on grass all year long – unlike their poor UK and Irish cousins, forced to live in sheds and eat man-made supplements in Winter.
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DAIRY farmers have been implicated in a new palm oil scandal after revelations that last year the national herd ate one-quarter of the world’s palm kernel stock food supply.
Felled trees, burnt stumps. Once tropical rainforest, now palm plantations spread across this Indonesian island like a plague.
We drive and drive and drive. Past broken-down machinery. Past empty fertiliser sacks, rigged for shade outside workers’ huts. The heat is intense, but you can’t see the sun because here in Riau province 2400 fires are burning out of control. The smoke is so thick the local airport has closed and 31,000 school children have been sent home.
It looks like Armageddon. It’s just a palm plantation.
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Federated Farmers has told a parliamentary committee the emissions trading scheme (ETS) should be scrapped because it would create economic disaster.
But dairy giant Fonterra says it should be kept, but only if changed significantly.
The Prime Minister, in a public dialogue with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, yesterday told an Australasian climate change and business conference in Auckland that New Zealand could not risk being seen as a “dirty producer”.
New Zealand also risked having overseas consumers shun its products unless the country rose to the challenge of reducing its agricultural carbon emissions.
New Zealand’s clean and green image is being sold out on the West Coast by the “complacent” regional council’s reluctance to prosecute dirty dairying, environmentalists have claimed.
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