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.
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Posted by admin at 4:10 pm on August 23rd, 2009. No comments... »
Categories: Climate impacts. Tags: dairy farmers, fed farmers, Fonterra, palm kernel, PKE.
Federated Farmers is rejecting claims that the importation of palm kernel extract for dairy feed is contributing to the destruction of rainforests.
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Posted by admin at 3:59 pm on August 23rd, 2009. No comments... »
Categories: Climate impacts. Tags: fed farmers, Fonterra, palm kernel, PKE, rainforest.
