Greenpeace calls on government to cut Big Dairy climate pollution

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Greenpeace’s petition:

CUT CLIMATE POLLUTION FROM BIG DAIRY

New Zealand’s intensive dairy industry depends on vast amounts of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser to fuel grass growth to feed too many cows. The industrial dairy sector is the biggest source of the climate pollution which drives the climate crisis and increased floods, heatwaves and storms. To date, the Labour-led government has allowed the dairy industry to escape any real regulation, while the rest of us, the environment and future generations, pay the price.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Instead, we can have thriving rural communities where people make their livelihoods farming in a way that keeps our water, land, and climate safe and healthy, through more plant-based regenerative organic agriculture. But we need government action now.

Join our call on the government to take real action to cut climate pollution from NZ’s biggest polluter: industrial dairying.

I call on the NZ Parliament to cut climate pollution from big dairy by passing legislation to:

•Phase out the use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser

•Stop the use of imported feed, like palm kernel expeller

•Support farmers to shift to diverse, regenerative and organic farming

•Halve the dairy herd by 2030