Intensive dairy farming in New Zealand encompasses the environmental and public-health consequences of large-scale dairy operations, including nitrate contamination of waterways and drinking water, greenhouse gas emissions, fertiliser overuse, and debate over the size and practices of the national dairy herd.
How the framings classify across 10 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
primary driver of groundwater pollution
Ōtautau bore water a potential preterm birth risk, but town supply safehigh-intensity operations face tighter regulatory scrutiny
The Country Full Show: Thursday August 20, 2026Lobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
primary driver of groundwater pollution
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
And uh for the high-risk farms, then most of them are part of industry assurance schemes anyway. So making sure we've got a pathway that those can be recognised in …
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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