Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its cows and instead charge visitors to cuddle them.
OPINION: First they demanded plant-based 'milk', now they want it priced cheaper than real milk.
Actor and longtime animal rights activist James Cromwell superglued his hand to a Starbucks counter in New York City recently to protest the coffee chain's extra charges for vegan milk.
The "glue-in" protest was organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) which live-streamed on social media.
What started as demanding a cheaper price for fake milk, turned into a rally cry against dairy farming.
The Oscar-nominated actor was poste up on the Midtown Manhattan Starbucks counter for at least 35 minutes, leading chants and railing against the living conditions for dairy cows, and the environmental consequences of dairy farming.
Police officers eventually arrived and shut down the store.
HortNZ's CEO, Kate Scott says they are starting to see the substantial cumulative effects on their members of the two disastrous flood events in the Nelson Tasman region.
In an ever-changing world, things never stay completely the same. Tropical jungles can turn into concrete ones criss-crossed by motorways, or shining cities collapse into ghost towns.
Labour's agriculture spokesperson Jo Luxton says while New Zealand needs more housing, sacrificing our best farmland to get there is not the answer.
Profitability issues facing arable farmers are the same across the world, says New Zealand's special agricultural trade envoy Hamish Marr.
Over 85% of Fonterra farmer suppliers will be eligible for customer funding up to $1,500 for solutions designed to drive on-farm efficiency gains and reduce emissions intensity.
Tighter beef and lamb production globally have worked to the advantage of NZ, according to the Meat Industry Association (MIA).
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