New Zealand Lamb Week

Submitted by a reader

Why did 63 percent of all British households abstained from eating New Zealand lamb in 2008?

Because they are smarter than the other 37 percent who consumed the tainted meat.

• New  Zealand exported about 100,000 tonnes of lamb to the UK last year, which was 44 percent of NZ lamb sold to EU countries, and constituted 32 percent share of the British retail lamb market.

• In 2008, 20 percent of New Zealand’s total sheepmeat exports went to the UK; about 37 percent of all British households bought New Zealand lamb.

• EU buys45 percent of New Zealand sheepmeat exports (425,000 tonnes) and accounts for 62 percent of its earnings from export lambs.
• New Zealand exports about 1.1 million metric tons of lamb, mutton, veal and beef each year (and perhaps as much in processed meat products).

Spiderlamb … this New Zealand six-day-old lamb has three extra limbs and uses five to walk on, it is also a hermaphrodite and has part of its bowel missing.

A seven-legged lamb was born in New Zealand. Is there a link between the mutant lamb and hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic chemicals dumped in New Zealand? It’s high time for New Zealand government to tell the truth and reveal the exact locations of their chemical dumps, especially the areas where they have buried thousands of tons of “leftover” Agent Orange! [Source: FEWW]

Agent Orange was manufactured in New Zealand from about 1962 until 1987. Dioxin has a 30-year envelop and its effects would continue to poison the people and environment until at least 2017.

Why consuming New Zealand meat products is abhorrent, detestable, immoral and  a crime against nature

1. Committing Eco-Terrorism – Dead Zones

The pressure in New Zealand to produce food for export has turned the country into a giant sewage dump. “Hundreds of millions of tons of agricultural waste and farm runoffs are discharged into the lakes and coastal waters, and millions of tons of methane gas are released to the environment each year.” Extensive dead zones regularly appear off the coasts of New Zealand. Both  NZ and Australia are major sources of industrial agriculture as well as sheep and cattle factory farming. “New Zealand cattle and sheep also produce methane emissions equivalent to 33 million tons of carbon dioxide each year.“

New Zealand is the size of Colorado yet it hosts up to 94 million farm animals (livestock excluding poultry), which discharge an estimated 300 million tons of effluent to the environment each year. New Zealand’s intensive animal industries produce about 4 times more manure than they could safely use as fertilizer. [The leftover is discharged or washed off into NZ coastal waters.] An excerpt from: Truth About ‘100% Pure New Zealand’ Advertising Campaign

Quotes from: FEWW and PRO

2. Committing Eco-Terrorism – Climate Change

Shipping Millions of tons of meat and meat products around the world has its consequences. It helps accelerates the climate change and reduces the chances of human survival. (The author is aware of the false calculation—pathetic excuses—made by Lincoln ‘University’ concerning the carbon footprint of their export meat).

3. Healthy Eating

New Zealand lamb is reportedly grass-fed. The soil in many areas of the country is contaminated with heavy metals, lethal chemicals and carcinogenic agents like dioxin. Let’s hope consuming NZ meat is not your idea of healthy eating. “Young people in the 10 to 14-year age group were more likely to die of cancer and a range of diseases which afflict various sites and systems of the body (nervous system, sense organs and endocrine system).” New Zealand Statistics reported. A direct relationship between the poisoned food and young deaths cannot be ruled out.

“Unsustainable industrial and farming activities [have resulted] in chemical contamination of soil, air and water. Arsenic, copper, DDT, dieldrin and lead are the lethal legacy of decades of unsustainable agriculture. Successive governments have advocated for the use of toxic pesticides in New Zealand. [Administrator] Officials assured New Zealanders these pesticides were safe, even in the face of evidence that showed otherwise. Some persistent pesticides, like endosulphan, are still allowed, creating the contaminated sites of the future.” ~ Green Party of Aotearoa NZ

A former top official for the manufacturers has confirmed that the leftover Agent Orange was buried in secret toxic waste dumps: “We bulldozed big pits and dumped thousands of tonnes of chemicals there.” http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-05.htm

4. Food Hygiene

Food hygiene is non-existent in New Zealand. The country  has the lowest levels of food hygiene and safety in the industrialized countries. [See Health Warnings for more information. TEAA]

Green Part of NZ recently reported:

Much of New Zealand food is “contaminated with disease-causing bacteria and viruses as a result of over-crowded factory farming conditions and unhygienic processing plants.”

“New Zealand has the highest rates of Campylobacter food poisoning in the developed world, nearly 3 times higher than the next highest countries, England and Wales, and 10 times higher than America and Canada.”

“An extraordinary 75,000 New Zealanders [nearly 2 percent of their population] are affected by Campylobacter food poisoning every year.” [See report highlights.]

5. Cruelty to Animals

New Zealand lamb reaches your dining table only after the poor animals have been routinely abused and tortured, before they are finally put out of their misery and slaughtered. There have been numerous reports of lamb and sheep, among other farm animals, being sexually assaulted by New Zealanders. See also Cruel Wool from Barbaric New Zealand.

6. Economic Treason

NOT eating locally? Consuming produce that has traveled halfway across the world to reach your table? Make no mistake. You are committing economic treason against your country. What sort of citizen destroys her own farming, retailing …  thus jeopardizing her countries  economic security?

To British consumers:

By buying New Zealand meat (and other products from that country, or other distant countries) you are committing not only a double act of eco-terrorism against our planet, but multiple acts of economic treason against your fellow Britons (and other EU citizens).