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Treatment of mothers

Flip Grater states ( Imagine the dairy sell in ‘23, May 29) that cows are the most brutally treated mothers in the country.

Grater clearly has never walked into Women’s Refuge. She has never spent time with an ambulance crew or walked with the Salvation Army. And she has also never spent time on a dairy farm.

She uses emotive, sensationalised and anthropomorphic language to discuss the life of a dairy cow. I invite her to visit my farm to meet reality.

I also suggest she does her homework before blaming dairy cows for the degradation of our waterways. The majority of councils have failed compliance on discharge (ie urbandwelling people’s waste) into local streams and rivers.

Kate Lynch, Whanganui [abridged]

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2023-06-01T07:00:00.0000000Z

2023-06-01T07:00:00.0000000Z

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