{"id":34817,"date":"2021-08-05T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T03:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/05\/new-zealand-farmers-have-avoided-regulation-for-decades-now-their-bill-has-come-due"},"modified":"2021-08-05T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T03:36:32","slug":"new-zealand-farmers-have-avoided-regulation-for-decades-now-their-bill-has-come-due-baz-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34817","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand farmers have avoided regulation for decades. Now their bill has come due | Baz Macdonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s true farmers are facing a lot of regulation but only after decades of fighting off smaller reforms \u2013 we need them to change<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In July, an estimated 60,000, mostly rural New Zealanders took to the streets to protest environmental regulations farmers say are unworkable. Angry and frustrated, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/16\/new-zealand-farmers-stage-huge-protest-over-environmental-rules\">they rolled into 57 towns and cities<\/a> on tractors and trucks to form the country\u2019s biggest farmer protest.<\/p>\n<p>I grew up in rural New Zealand, and many of my family work in and around the dairy industry \u2013 so I have experienced a lot of this frustration first hand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/aug\/05\/new-zealand-farmers-have-avoided-regulation-for-decades-now-their-bill-has-come-due\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s true farmers are facing a lot of regulation but only after decades of fighting off smaller reforms \u2013 we need them to changeIn July, an estimated 60,000, mostly rural New Zealanders took to the streets to protest environmental regulations farmers s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34818,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions\/34818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}