"PALM KERNEL imports are tracking higher than ever, despite continued biosecurity fears about the controversial dairy cow feed."
Aside from the shameful situation brought about by the purchase of palm kernel - that is the destruction of rainforest in order to make room for new, made-lucrative by-the-market (dairy farmers, especially in New Zealand), the number of organisms from ants to lizards that are arriving here amongst the palm kernel is a major fear - or should be, were it not for greed obscuring the danger.
"Lachlan McKenzie, Federated Farmers dairy spokesman said farmers wanted to lessen their dependence on palm kernel because its price fluctuated. "In the last drought, it went up to $400 a tonne."
Environmental concerns were "from within a small minority", he added."
Huge quantities of this material is arriving in New Zealand and the amount is rapidly growing.
It's the problem that we dare not speak about because it points at Fonterra and their dairy farmers and they are sacrosanct, aren't they?
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The risk with this stuff is just astonishing, think of the surface area a ton of this stuff has for nasties to ride in on.
As an unrelated dairy issue, another 2 people killed at the hands (grill?) of a milk tanker on the Coast, what do we call that? collateral damage?
The risk to the orangutans shouldn't be dismissed either Shunda.
Someone, somewhere will be keeping a record of the number of Fonterra-tanker 'incidents', jack-knifes, tip-overs and as you've pointed out today, road deaths.
Fonterra themselves will have it on record of course.
OIA would bring that to the surface.
You have to be a bit desperate if you start picking on the truck incidents ah, just because their truck was involved in no way means Fonterra were involved.
Be more people killed on the coast jumping up and down on DOC platforms per year than by truck accidents.
"As an unrelated dairy issue"
" Just because their truck was involved in no way means Fonterra were involved."
Language gentlemen! It's important!
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