So oat milk is better for the environment?

[C_T_Russell]

Dont count on it staying that way for long, I know a few farmers who already walked away long before all this crap was announced.
We will see more farms turned into pine forest, mark my words.

Not endorsing it but, IF it is more profitable to farm pine trees than food, or convert farmland to housing, instead of growing our own produce, I am wondering how that is any different to relying on imports of products in any other sector, say oil..  It is just market economics in a global economy and letting specific countries do what they do best...

It's not like we get the food any cheaper just because we grow it here

Firstly we need to put a stop to mass immigration so that we dont have a housing issue, along with roading issues, etc.
We need to be self sufficient and as less reliant on imports as possible, especially food.
Too much focus on $$$, thats all people care about, the benefits to society are more important.

Secondly, we grow plenty of pines and export tonnes of timber, and yet have a supply shortage for the local population?
WTF?
Why do we export timber to get processed in China and then ship back the end products into NZ? Timber mills are suffering as a result.
Why do we have permanent pine forests that never will be cut down and replanted with a new batch of trees to suck up more carbon?
Its beyond belief. There is nothing sustainable about farming trees that never get cut down for profits.

Speaking of oil, we have our own oil supply here and we should use it. We use the gas supply, but they want to phase that out too!

No more marsden point oil refinery, now we have issues importing bitumen (is one of the reasons our roads are in such a poor state)

I could go on. This country is stuffed and its only going to get worse if we dont act.