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nickofnz.bsky.social
Free water testing for nitrate contamination – next stop Southland, Canterbury

www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @greenpeace.org.nz

#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
Free water testing for nitrate contamination - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Find free nitrate contamination water testing near you, or request Greenpeace's free mail-in water testing.
www.greenpeace.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
nzpom.com
Sounds familiar Aotearoa New Zealand?
#nzpol
#toomanycows
whittledaway.bsky.social Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 10d
"Intensive dairying is only wildly profitable as long as the sector is allowed a free ride to produce massive pollution impacts"

The principle that the polluter should pay has long been central to environmental regulation but does not apply to dairy farming

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
John Gibbons: Saying nuclear power is better for the environment than solar is ludicrous
The idea that intensive dairy farming is some kind of pastoral idyll with no impact on the environment has been allowed to take hold to the point that serious people are now suggesting nuclear reactor...
www.irishexaminer.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
The proceeds of Fonterra's sale of Anchor Butter should be used to transition farming away from intensive dairy to more plant-based regenerative organic farming, and clean up some of the mess that the dairy industry has made.

The last thing we need is MORE cows.

#TooManyCows
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
"Fonterra’s CEO Miles Hurrell has shown that he views New Zealand as nothing more than a milk powder factory, creating low-value products to ship overseas for use in Mars Bars."

Fonterra milking us dry and selling us out www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol

#TooManyCows
Fonterra milking us dry and selling us out - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Fonterra doesn’t care about New Zealand. That’s Greenpeace Aotearoa’s message following the confirmation of sale of Fonterra’s consumer brands.
www.greenpeace.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
The Meat & Dairy Industry smoke and mirrors to be watching out for at the #COP30 Climate Change Conference in November.

#TooManyCows and #TooMuchBullshit.

#ClimateChange
The Big Ag smoke and mirrors I’ll be watching out for at COP30 - Greenpeace International
As COP30 approaches, Big Ag is gearing up to greenwash livestock emissions. Learn how to see through the meat and dairy industry’s methane myths and false climate solutions.
www.greenpeace.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
2covet.bsky.social
#nzpol We shouldn't be subsidising them, and their emissions must be urgently lowered because there are #TooManyCows and their methane is hastening the #ClimateCrisis.
russelnorman.bsky.social Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 23d
Tell me again why we have to spend a billion dollars a year subsidising @fonterranz.bsky.social etc under the Emissions Trading Scheme, in the process removing the price signal for agribusiness to climate their massive pollution. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Fonterra sale could inject $4.5b into economy and $3.2b directly to farmers
The dairy giant is hoping to sell its Anchor and Mainland brands to a French company, though the deal is far from set in stone.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
VICTORIA!

A Spanish court has ruled that a 24,000-cow industrial mega-farm will NOT go ahead.

That's a huge win for the climate, for the cows and for #PeoplePower, via @greenpeace.es

#TooManyCows #ClimateCrisis
¡VICTORIA! La macrogranja de las 24.000 vacas no verá la luz
La lucha contra las macrogranjas paraliza el megaproyecto de Noviercas, Soria
es.greenpeace.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Why New Zealand’s Lower Methane Target Could Warm the Planet More
#TooManyCows #nzpol #climatechange
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why New Zealand’s Lower Methane Target Could Warm the Planet More
New Zealand, one of the world’s largest dairy exporters and a signatory of the Global Methane Pledge, this weekend watered down its 2050 target for cutting methane emissions from livestock and farming...
www.bloomberg.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
New Zealand’s dairy industry-backed methane target rollback sets bad precedent, scientists warn
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#TooManyCows #TooMuchInfluence #nzpol #climatechange
New Zealand’s Methane Target Sets Bad Precedent, Scientists Warn
New Zealand’s decision to set a less ambitious methane emissions reduction target sets a worrying precedent that other nations may follow, scientists have warned.
www.bloomberg.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
jessterraformearth.bsky.social
Anything to help the industry and government NOT have to just say #tooManyCows actually

Tech Will Save Us…any day now! 🙄 #nzpol #ClimateCrisis
nzic.bsky.social New Zealand Institute of Chemistry @nzic.bsky.social · Oct 7
Applications are open for the Ag Emissions Centre’s PhD scholarships for study in 2026. These scholarships welcome students from diverse academic backgrounds. No agricultural background required, but a passion for climate change action and science to reduce emissions is a must.
October 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Greenpeace pins blame for nitrate contamination of drinking water on Canterbury dairy conversions with giant signs in the area.

#TooManyCows #nzpol #NitrateEmergency
It starts here: Nitrate Emergency - Fonterra
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
greenpeace.org.nz
PRESS RELEASE:
A modified Fonterra farm sign was installed outside Canterbury’s first complete dairy conversion this morning. No new dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency.
#nzpol #TooManyCows #UnderOneNitrate

www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
‘Nitrate emergency starts here’: Greenpeace pins blame on Canterbury dairy conversions
‘The Nitrate Emergency: it starts here.’ That’s what a freshly-installed Fonterra farm sign said outside Canterbury’s first complete dairy conversion this morning. Greenpeace installed the modified…
www.greenpeace.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
🚨16,000 more dairy cows approved for Canterbury🚨

That's a LOT more urine leaching down into groundwater, cow shit running off into rivers and methane driving the #climatecrisis.

It means more polluted rivers and dangerous nitrate contamination of drinking water for rural families.

#TooManyCows
October 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
BREAKING
New Zealand’s largest ever study into drinking water nitrate has confirmed serious contamination levels of rural peoples’ drinking water.

#TooManyCows #nzpol
September 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
$26b in dirty money: Fonterra cashes in after contaminating drinking water, via @greenpeace.org.nz

#TooManyCows

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$26b in dirty money: Fonterra cashes in after contaminating drinking water - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Dirty money: that’s what Greenpeace is calling the $26 billion in revenue brought in by dairy giant Fonterra over the last financial year.
www.greenpeace.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
paullecomtephoto.nz
Remember when the Key Govt vilified & got their Dirty Politics attack dogs onto ecologist Mike Joy for daring to say #TooManyCows

He warned us.

Awesome work @domesticanimal.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Farmers feel ‘picked on’, says agriculture minister after ECan’s declared a Nitrate Emergency … but imagine how it feels for the Canterbury families that can’t trust the water from their kitchen tap is safe to drink!!
#TooManyCows #nzpol

www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Nitrate emergency: Farmers feel ‘picked on’, minister says
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay, who called ECan’s nitrate emergency declaration “a gimmick”, says more than 80% of farms have environmental plans.
www.thepress.co.nz
September 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
russelnorman.bsky.social
The Canterbury Regional Council has declared a Nitrate Emergency due to rapidly rising levels of dangerous nitrate in groundwater across the region. Driven by @fonterranz.bsky.social and other industrial dairy cos and accelerated by Luxon Govt. #TooManyCows www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
The Canterbury Nitrate Emergency Starts Here with Fonterra
September 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Once again, Fed Farmers is acting as if they are the exception to the rule.

Their 'no additional warming' concept is not based on science.

They’ve just come up with a way to count emissions differently to justify more pollution.

#TooManyCows #nzpol
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Greenpeace slams Federated Farmers over ‘selfish’ behaviour on climate - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Federated Farmers’ intent to ‘go to battle’ over methane targets is yet another example of the lobby group’s selfish rejection of climate action.
www.greenpeace.org
May 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
The New Zealand dairy industry loves to claim that it's the most efficient in the world, but the truth is different.
#TooManyCows #nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @greenpeace.org.nz
Is New Zealand dairy farming the most efficient in the world? - Greenpeace Aotearoa
New Zealand politicians, including the Prime Minister, regularly claim that our country’s dairy industry is “the most efficient” in the world. This is a common refrain, particularly when anyone &#8211...
www.greenpeace.org
June 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
jessterraformearth.bsky.social
The cows aren't broken and needing tech fixes, the whole dairy industry is broken!

Cows are animals, not malfunctioning milk machines.

#nzpol #tooManyCows
a person holding a ball standing next to a cow in a grassy field
Alt: a person throws a ball and a white cow in a grassy field plays chase
media.tenor.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
NZ's methane stoush goes global as Luxon Govt mulls weaker target
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/04/n...

#TooManyCows #ClimateCrisis #nzpol
NZ's methane stoush goes global as Govt mulls weaker target
Analysis: Committing to 'no additional warming' could be better worded as endorsing the current level of warming – and the associated climate impacts.
newsroom.co.nz
June 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
"Nitrate emergency starts here"

Greenpeace brings water crisis back to @Fonterra’s HQ, via @greenpeace.org.nz www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

#TooManyCows
‘Nitrate emergency starts here’: Greenpeace brings water crisis back to Fonterra’s HQ - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace has taken rural New Zealand’s nitrate emergency straight to the top, by projecting a modified Fonterra sign reading “The nitrate emergency: It starts here” onto the dairy giant’s Auckland&h...
www.greenpeace.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
nickofnz.bsky.social
The value and importance of farming to NZ - especially dairy - is massively overstated, especially when you count the COST of all those millions of cows polluting rivers, drinking water and the climate.

We bear those costs while Fonterra creams the profits.

#TooManyCows
August 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
nickofnz.bsky.social
Abhorrent.

Everywhere you look, the meat and dairy industry is working against you!

How a meat and dairy industry lobbying campaign is working to turn people against lab-grown meat
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/07/30/c... #TooManyCows #ClimateCrisis
How a livestock industry lobbying campaign is turning Europe against lab-grown meat
unearthed.greenpeace.org
July 31, 2024 at 6:25 AM