This government hates farmers

[C_T_Russell]

So 30% less animals is the answer then?
That's going to affect farmers profit.
Sounds a great plan for the economy doesn't it?
Food prices will be even higher.
Thankfully we have act and nzf.
We don't need to do anything more than what our trading partners are doing.
They won't stop buying our products, it's not like any other country will produce anything cleaner.

You've missed the point completely sunshine.

If we don't reduce the emissions from the way we farm and manufacture our products our customers will essentially blacklist New Zealand because they will perceive that our products aren't clean. No amount of BS and doubletalk will change that fact and to further compound the issue we have the longest freight routes on Earth to get our products to market so we're behind the eight ball before we even start in terms of food miles and environmental black marks.

But at least when our primary products' export value plummets as a result we'll have plenty of surplus to supply New Zealand's domestic market.

Yeah but that's only because consumers ate getting brainwashed by this crap.
You really think that cutting back 30% is going to Dave the planet?
Petrol cars are doing far more "damage" the real fact is the whole world needed to stop yesterday if any of this is true.
Animals are nature, the bacteria inside their gut produces methane, has a short half life and returns to the carbon cycle.
Feeding animals shit like new drugs and methane inhibitors is not the answer, nor is cutting back animals.
Seems all this is just over ideology rather than real science, and there is a ton of science coming out that proves agricultural emissions are of less concern than initially thought, even the IPCC agrees on this.
You may as well ban alcohol production which makes co2, and also compost heaps that make methane, even the forest floor in the bush makes methane from all the decomposing leaves and wood, etc.
You think our animals are the problem?
Easy target to go over the poor farmers though.
Then consumers will complain about prices, and then the solution provided will be to consume insects, they can fuck off. I'm not touching them.