Dairy Farms & the Environment
“The challenge for the country [New Zealand] is that environmental improvement must come from solutions that enhance [dairy] profitability and production.”
I almost choked when I read that statement in a newspaper article by Landcorp chief executive Steven Carden (Dominion Post, October 28, 2014).
My next reaction was to ask myself: Why should something that affects everyone (the environment) have to take second place to the profits of a few (dairy farmers)?
Carden says it’s because of “the value our dairy industry brings in wealth, job creation and naturally nutritious food”.
Dairy farming is no different than any other industry in being able to assert that it benefits consumers.
The bigger question is, can the environment sustain the impacts of industries carrying on the way they have?
Had Carden (in his first statement quoted above) thought to add “where that is possible”, I would have had no arguement with him.
www.thomaswdevine.com
I almost choked when I read that statement in a newspaper article by Landcorp chief executive Steven Carden (Dominion Post, October 28, 2014).
My next reaction was to ask myself: Why should something that affects everyone (the environment) have to take second place to the profits of a few (dairy farmers)?
Carden says it’s because of “the value our dairy industry brings in wealth, job creation and naturally nutritious food”.
Dairy farming is no different than any other industry in being able to assert that it benefits consumers.
The bigger question is, can the environment sustain the impacts of industries carrying on the way they have?
Had Carden (in his first statement quoted above) thought to add “where that is possible”, I would have had no arguement with him.
www.thomaswdevine.com
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