The Country, Jane Smith talks to Jamie Mackay
Extract: They're actually looking for some leadership from a country that has the majority of its emissions from food production and is decreasing them. Anyway, by default.
So we [New Zealand] (04:12): could have taken the leadership stance on this and actually say, you know what, we're a food and fiber producing country. We're already punching above our weight. We're not going to risk our efficiency. We're actually producers of a natural protein.
We're effectively broke by the way, so you know …
And actually take a stance; because [instead] just we have this sort of limp-wristed [response] and we see it with the EMA, the Meat Industry Association …