Q06128

Dairy farming today is one of New Zealand’s biggest industry’s and is a big money earner in our country. However this industry brings consequences both economically and environmentally. Along with milk and other dairy products, diary farming also brings with it cattle waste and gas, high prices in dairy products and is overtaking our sheep farming industry. It is because of these three reasons that dairy farming is bad for New Zealand and should be reduced.

New Zealand’s environment is one of this country’s best assets and to see its rivers and air be polluted by intense dairy farming can damage this country’s reputation. This country’s landscape is breathtaking and there are many activities that can be done all around our environmental areas. If one day someone decided to go for a swim in a creek or river, the last thing they would want is to come out covered in cow waste due to intense dairy farming nearby. A few examples of dairy farming polluting New Zealand are cow waste getting into our streams/rivers and cow methane emissions polluting the air and ozone layer. Dairy farming is one of this country’s main polluters and if careless farmers continue to work the way they do now, most of our rivers and streams will become condemned and unhealthy.

New Zealand’s industry as stated earlier is one of this country’s biggest money makers and has exported New Zealand dairy products to a lot of the world’s major countries, but knowing we kiwis pay more for our dairy products than overseas buyers is quite a problem. If one day a casual kiwi bloke decides to go to the dairy/supermarket to get some milk and cheese for their family and discovers that diary products are far out of reach for spare pocket change can be frustrating. A few examples of dairy products being ridiculously high for New Zealanders are milk reaching the $4.00 and in some places the $5.00 mark. Cheese is also ridiculously over priced being at $10.00 a kilo but in a lot of places $14.99 for a kilo. The prices of this country’s dairy products is ripping New Zealanders off and emptying our pockets. The prices of our dairy products should be reduced and be made more affordable for New Zealanders.

One of New Zealand’s biggest industry’s which is also a heritage is the sheep farming industry. Sheep farming is a very popular career and to see it get overtaken by the growing dairy industry might end up destroying one of this countries greatest assets. If one day someone decides to go for a drive in the country to explore the landscape but where there was sheep farms there instead is diary farms everywhere with no trees or bushes just flat grass and the stench of cow waste .This would most likely make the driver think that New Zealand would be better off with reducing the number of diary farms and keeping the majority of New Zealands farms being sheep ones .Sheep faming and diary farming both have examples of effects on New Zealand. With sheep farming you get less pay but you have a far less impact on the environment. With dairy farming you get more pay but you have a far greater impact on the environment. Sheep farming is being destroyed by the dairy industry and we may later lose it unless we act now and halt the growth of dairy farming throughout New Zealand.

Dairy farming today is growing excessively and due to the money made by the industry it will be difficult to reduce, but many people will be against it due to its heavy negative environmental and economical impacts like polluting our rivers and ozone layer, high pricing of dairy products and the endangering of the sheep farming industry. Dairy farming is rapidly damaging our country and unless we do something now we may loss more than what we earned through dairy farming in New Zealand.