“..Factory-farm cattle plan angers Greens..”
“..A plan to factory farm dairy cattle in the South Island will harm New Zealand’s clean, green international brand, the Green Party says.
Consent applications have been lodged by three companies - Southdown Holdings, Five Rivers, and Williamson Holdings - that want to set up 16 new farms in the central South Island’s Mackenzie Basin.
According to the applications, up to 18,000 cows would be housed in “cubicle stables” 24 hours a day for eight months of the year ..
.. and 12 hours a day for the remaining four months.
But the plan would amount to “factory farming, pure and simple”, Greens co-leader Russel Norman said.
“Proposals to keep cows in cubicles that they don’t leave for eight months of the year are a radical departure from our tradition of farming stock outside and on pasture, and could do immense harm to our clean, green international brand..”
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