Farm emission plan announced, expect to pay more for your food...

[Lilith7]

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/10/11/live-...ions-plan/
This is going to be devastating, its such a crock of shit its not funny.
Like our small percentage of "emissions" is causing "extreme" weather events.
Jacinda openly says here that carbon neutral products will demand a higher price.
All ways to bribe farmers that this will be beneficial to them.

Who pays? YOU!

Expect more valuable farmland converted to shitty invasive pines.
Expect higher grocery prices.

What they dont tell you is that growing veges is just as "damaging" with fertilizier applied to the soil and all the constant years of turning over the soil, in fact its probably even worse.

They are even going after sheep farmers, its such BS its so hard to believe they are even wanting to do this.

Fact - agribusiness is responsible for half our emissions.

Fact - agribusiness currently pays a lot less for its climate damaging outcomes than other areas of business in this country.

Fact - we have committed to reduction targets with international agreements and treaties.

Fact - if we do not start taking climate change seriously we are risking our grandchildren's future. 

Fact - this is a watered down version of what is really necessary.

Far more is needed, but farmers are going to complain whether this affects them a little or a lot because they see it as their livelihoods being at stake. There are other methods of farming but change isn't easy & as farmers traditionally tend to vote right wing, its likely to only happen at a snail's pace & only whenever there's a left wing govt.