If you want examples of how spin and counter offensive are used to cover-up bad news in New Zealand you don’t have to look far. You could choose to examine the way the report into poor quality early years child care was handled, or you could turn your attention to the way investigative journalists have…
The Wall Street Journal has blown the lid on how long Fonterrra has known that New Zealand milk has been tainted with the melamine-related chemical “Dicyandiamide, or DCD–a substance that in high doses is toxic to humans–in milk powder“. A three year long trial of the novel product only finished in New Zealand early last year. It’s not looking good…
Reports are saying that farming companies and the government are locking horns over applications to set-up 16 factory diary farms in NZ. “Three companies* have applied to set up 16 new farms in the central South Island’s Mackenzie Basin, keeping up to 18,000 cows in cubicle stables** 24 hours a day for eight months of…
A report in today’s New Zealand Herald newspaper seems to undermine Don Nicolson’s (NZ Federated Farmers President) assertion that Greenpeace’s blockade of the ship carrying a cargo of Palm Kernel Extract destined for New Zealand animal feed was because Greenpeace is “anti-farming“ “….Protests continued outside Ports of Tauranga gates, with some New Zealand farmers weighing…
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