Federated Farmers of New Zealand is a lobby and advocacy group for farmers and rural communities. [1]
https://xcancel.com/FedFarmers/status/1926787639874637905
Pine trees are eating up sheep and beef land —not because forestry is a better use of that land, but because of New Zealand’s flawed [Emissions Trading Scheme] settings 🌲 🐑
Wikipedia ↩︎
I could see an argument to be made that “pine trees” shouldn’t replace farmland, rather forest of native flora should. But somehow I don’t think this is their intention.
this is the exact point i was about to make - there’s scenarios where pine plantations for logging definitely deserve a fuckload of criticism, but there’s no way that cattle graziers are making those arguments