Makes the Greens look moderate

The Herald reports:

New Zealand needs to get rid of 80 per cent of its dairy cows because dairying is dirtying our water.

That was the message delivered to the annual meeting of Wanganui Federated Farmers by its former president.

Rachel Stewart, president of the group for four years in the early 2000s and guest speaker at Friday’s annual meeting, is an “ardent critic” of farming.

Dairy off memory is around 7% of GDP. So an 80% reduction is likely to reduce GDP by around $11 billion or $2,500 per capita.

Ms Stewart predicted there would be synthetic milk in five years, and people wouldn’t be eating meat in 10 years.

Her predictions seem as robust as her policies. I’m very very confident people will be eating meat in 100 years time, let alone 10.