Strange bedfellows
OPINION: Two types of grifters have used the sale of Fonterra's consumer brands as a platform to push their own agendas - under the guise of 'caring about the country'.
Your old mate is dubious about whether they are approaching this in truly neutral fashion.
Their first article gets a bit excited about the fact that Feds leader-turned-MP Andrew Hoggard knows other farm industry leaders well and gets along with them.
It then allows Greenpeace director Russell 'give me back my flag' Norman to frame the relationship as sinister: "Basically the lobby groups are in the executive now. Hoggard's there - he is the agribusiness lobby group chief - he's now in Cabinet."
Rusty fails to mention that Steve Abel, a former Greenpeace staffer, is now a Green Party MP, and Eugenie Sage, also of the Greens, was ex Forest & Bird.
Okay, Newsroom, now do the green lobby!
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