Friday, 03 May 2013 16:05

Anti-farming?

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IT APPEARS to the Hound that his favourite (yeah, right) academic, Massey University’s Mike Joy(less) is not happy unless he is putting the boot into New Zealand farmers in some way.

So your old mate was not surprised to see the omnipresent Dr Joy(less) pop up on a recent Campbell Live programme trying to whip up public hysteria about ‘dangerous’ cadmium levels on New Zealand farms and how they are producing toxic meat and vegetables. 

The question for farmers thinking of sending their kids to Massey; why bother when it is so anti-farming?

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