Wednesday, 15 April 2015 16:28

Green deception

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Environmental lobbyists will go to any length to push for fewer cows in New Zealand.

Recently there was a flurry of media releases and comments from the Greens and other enviro watchdogs after a Federated Farmers executive raised the issue of a moratorium on dairy conversions in Waikato.

Feds Waikato president Chris Lewis says he suggested some reasons for and against it – “then boom, we have a big headline, misinterpretations and misrepresentations!”

Get a life, greenies.

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