(24-01-2023, 05:12 PM)harm_less Wrote: Farmers are no strangers to hypocrisy. Case in point is their denial of any responsibility for, and in many cases even the existence of, climate change yet they're all too quick in putting their hands out whenever increasing and severe weather events impact their operations. Living in their own lifestyle bubbles in many cases I would suggest.
Some generalisations are necessary to make a point but this is excessive. There are tens of thousands of farmers and just because some are hypocritical and/or deny climate change, it doesn't by any means mean that all or even most are. In fact, most are head down, working hard, providing food for NZers and export income for the economy so that the city-folk can eat takeaways and buy more plastic rubbish from China.
Many farmers are dividing off areas of farms to provide riparian buffers or to enable natural re-growth. Meanwhile they keep getting hammered from all directions and I certainly don't blame those who give up and get out of it. But that is very sad.. Firstly we need them for FOOD, and secondly of those who give up, the land is likely to grow houses or pine trees in future instead of FOOD. Eventually we'll be importing everything we eat. The amount of food we import now is ridiculous. it will only get worse.
(24-01-2023, 03:23 PM)king1 Wrote:Quote:In a seven-hour effort, Ng and his staff mowed a giant message into a field, directly under a flight path to Auckland Airport, writing: “End of an error”.
Taking to social media, Ng posted a video of the process, revealing it took three people seven hours to create, with each letter roughly 40 metres in length.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/end-of-an-...RY4OZ3QGI/
I'm sure there is an irony somewhere here, investing 21 labour hours in a protest while pleading poverty...
Like the beneficiaries who spend all their money on drugs, alcohol and takeaways and then hold out their hands? At least this person is running a business and making a reasonable protest that doesn't inconvenience anyone else. Good on him!
(24-01-2023, 03:58 PM)Olive Wrote: There's a meme in there, a variant of Old Man Shakes Fist at Sky. I wonder if the workers were paid.
I guess whether or how much they were paid is between them and the boss. Maybe they were happy to give time for free just to make the protest. Like al the people who wasted huge amounts of time at Parliament last year. At least this protest didn't damage public property or infringe on the rights of anyone else.
(25-01-2023, 09:20 AM)zqwerty Wrote: Did the ignorant fool mean "error" or era?
Either way awkward and inappropriate.
Why do you think he's an ignorant fool? I'm sure he meant error. Quite which one is not clear - there have been so many.
(25-01-2023, 09:39 AM)zqwerty Wrote: Full on national supporters are not known for their subtlety.
I suppose for some reason he didn't get a Covid payout, perhaps market gardeners were not eligible?
I'm sure his workers would have got the covid subsidy, and he would have got whatever amount was due for his own work in the business. That tided people through the worst of the pandemic, but everyone has now been left high and dry with mounting costs, health system overworked, high rates of absenteeism through illness, etc, because people just don't get that avoiding the disease should be paramount in their lives, Etc. And covid is just the beginning of most people's woes.
(25-01-2023, 01:26 PM)dken31 Wrote: "Government needs to step in with regulation of the marketplace including , electricity, petrol, food, no exporting until the home market is well supplied with reasonably priced food."
That sounds like Venezuela; look it up if you aren't familiar.
When prices are fixed, inevitably the incentive to produce/distrubute is removed (because the profit is no longer there) and you just end up with shortages.
High prices/rampant inflation isn't caused by supplier greed, but by too much government meddling making it more expensive for suppliers to produce goods.
EXACTLY!!!!