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The Fonterra Connection

Publication - August 22, 2009
Fonterra has introduced supplementary feeds such as imported palm-based animal feed which is changing dairying from pastoral to industrial. Palm-based animal feed imports have increased 2,700 fold since 1999. This is part of an overall trend of intensification of dairying in New Zealand. Agriculture is responsible for 49% of NZ’s domestic greenhouse gas emissions. This increase doesn’t factor in indirect emissions from forest destruction in Indonesia to grow supplementary feed for NZ’s dairy herds.
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Fonterra implicated in rainforest and climate destruction

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