A Federated Farmers leader exposes a behind-the-scenes campaign linked to animal activist groups, alleging that a 'fair for farmers' initiative is driven by international groups aiming to eliminate animal agriculture, with ties to SAFE and the Green Party, and spreading false or偏
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Yeah, I mean, it's fair enough that they're answering that question and that's great and we encourage them to come along to a fed event and our National Council and to ask that question and to form our policy position and work along it. That's fine. But when it's got this ulterior motive and behind the scenes, when these guys are actually pushing these guys along, these sailors, to push this message of removing animal agriculture, that's not fair and that's not what farmers think they're supporting. And ultimately, that's not the result that we want to the end of the day. So it was pretty filthy when I found that out. I'm not going to lie. We knew that there was something going on. It didn't quite make sense. There was all this professional branding popping up behind it. and these attacks on federated farmers and everything else. And we couldn't quite work out where it was coming from, but to find it's coming from literally animal activists like that, and you don't have to go too far to dig up to see who they are, you know, that's pretty dirty that they're using New Zealand farmers to front it with much more of an ulterior motive.
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