If you say no to factory farming now and focus on supporting local and sustainable farming for humans and animals your food sources will continue to be a vibrant, safe and reliable industry and a scion of New Zealand’s rich heritage -- writes United States citizen living in Seattle, Washington, an active volunteer advocate for preserving farmland.
A revolutionary new way to keep the long acre under control and yet avoid the hazards of using chemical sprays is announced today by a group of North Auckland businessmen.
The wetland area due to be sprayed is within Rodney county. Aerial spraying is due to occur next Monday is 5 kilometres from where I live. Rodney council has not bothered to contact me -- yet others have been told.
When I was at primary school, there were more than forty in the class. That alone should, according to the current wisdom, have scarred me for life. But it's physical scars, not mental ones, which I want to go on about.
The intended helicopter spraying of crack willow with herbicide over 23 ha of wetland at Te Henga, near Bethells Beach, is another example of New Zealand’s use of crude chemical solutions without deep understanding of environmental risks, according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ.
