Smartfarming Goes Lakeside!
Greenpeace took its Smartfarming message to the Central North Island at the weekend, with a presence at the hugely successful three-day Taupo ECOshow. Attended by about 3,000 people from all over the country and host to some fantastic international speakers, the lakeside event involved interactive workshops, presentations, product showcasing and stalls. The theme was ‘choosing sustainability’, with a real focus on taking positive and proactive solutions to the environmental challenges we face. And it followed hot the heels of the launch of Greenpeace’s new “smartfarming” web pages (www.greenpeace.org.nz/smartfarming) and cows-on-buses campaign.
The Greenpeace team had a stall at the show, and our Climate Campaigner Simon gave daily presentations about climate change and the work we’re doing in New Zealand. But we were mainly there to listen. After all, the Central North Island is home to many large scale dairy farms, and it’s where most of the deforestation is taking place to make way for corporate dairy farms. The lives of many of the people we talked to had been severely affected by this land use change.
We heard some real horror stories, mostly from farmers who’ve since seen the light and are now farming in less-intensive, more sustainable ways. They were really enthusiastic about our campaign and pleased people are finally talking about the issues.
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Good on Greenpeace for taking this on, Fonterra are wrecking this country.
I agree I support Greenpeace in taking the initiative to listen and advise dairy farmers of ways to farm sustainably and the best way of doing this is to allow and support the Green Party to hang it’s hordings so that Greenpeace can have a real
representation in parliament. It is only 27 days to the election I sincerely hope that Greenpeace and the Green Party can work together because there is a real environmental (never mind the economic) crisis that will threaten all future generations.
Yours Sincerely
Paul Drake