Aotearoa / New Zealand

Here before the "without farmers there is no food" comments. FFS, they aren't telling you to stop, only consider the full environmental impact of how you make a living... you know, like the rest of us.

This sounds great - I'm sure it's a sore subject and no one loves being the bashed victim, but I'm fairly confident the farming community have some overly loud complainers that aren't willing to change (that's my prejudice, at least).

I'm excited to hear Fonterra may be able to force this and is essentially leading the charge. It's gotta hurt, but I see this just like the flattening of the COVID curve - less pain before it's too late...

I say this because it's obvious to me that we need to diversify from milk and meat - as soon as those are cheaply synthesized we're done for (as far as GDP, etc). It happened with the wool market, so they all switched (those that weren't bankrupt) and made exactly the same mistake again (by going all in on beef & dairy).