Palm kernel pests

"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?

Fonterra in the rainforests

"A solitary excavator digging a canal to drain peatlands, on which a rainforest had recently stood. The area had been home to Sumatran tigers and orangutans, not to mention numerous small communities. The starkness of this image, showing man's ability to lay waste to the environment, was both powerful, and incredibly sad."

"Like many of you, we were shocked and outraged that New Zealand was supporting an environmental crime of such enormity."

"Just over a year after Fonterra's activities were first reported on, the dairy giant is now importing palm kernel in greater quantities than ever - it is likely that more than one million tonnes of palm kernel will be imported for Fonterra's farms this year. That is nearly a quarter of the global palm kernel trade!"

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