{"id":44453,"date":"2022-05-13T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/13\/new-zealands-dairy-industry-should-stop-using-maori-culture-to-pretend-its-sustainable"},"modified":"2022-05-13T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T20:00:12","slug":"new-zealands-dairy-industry-should-stop-using-maori-culture-to-pretend-its-sustainable-philip-mckibbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44453","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s dairy industry should stop using M\u0101ori culture to pretend it\u2019s sustainable | Philip McKibbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dairying is not simply unsustainable, it also violates M\u0101ori values \u2013 including those that call for us to respect the natural world<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s dairy industry is under pressure. It is one of our biggest earners, accounting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.productivity.govt.nz\/assets\/Inquiries\/frontier-firms\/a977484e51\/The-dairy-sector-in-NZ-TDB-Advisory.pdf\">roughly 3% of our GDP<\/a>; and since cows were first brought here <a href=\"https:\/\/teara.govt.nz\/en\/dairying-and-dairy-products\/page-1#:~:text=The%20first%20dairy%20cows%20to,in%20the%20Bay%20of%20Islands.\">about 200 years ago<\/a>, dairy farming has taken on cultural significance for P\u0101keh\u0101 (NZ Europeans) especially.<\/p>\n<p>But it is also attracting increasing scrutiny. As well as polluting our land and waterways, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/05\/emissions-from-cows-on-new-zealand-dairy-farms-reach-record-levels\">dairy is to blame for large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>. Jacinda Ardern\u2019s Labour government has developed legislation to mitigate environmental pollution, but critics say it is not adequately addressing the harm dairying causes.<\/p>\n<p>Philip McKibbin is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand of P\u0101keh\u0101 (New Zealand European) and M\u0101ori (Ng\u0101i Tahu) descent<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/13\/new-zealands-dairy-industry-should-stop-using-maori-culture-to-pretend-its-sustainable\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dairying is not simply unsustainable, it also violates M\u0101ori values \u2013 including those that call for us to respect the natural worldNew Zealand\u2019s dairy industry is under pressure. It is one of our biggest earners, accounting for roughly 3% of our GDP; a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"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":[41,65,653,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-farming","category-maori","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\/44453","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\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44454,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44453\/revisions\/44454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}