Key Says Campaign on N.Z. Dairy Practices Is 'Economic Sabotage'
Dairy products make up about a quarter of New Zealand’s NZ$49 billion ($33 billion) of exports, which in turn make up 30 percent of the economy.
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New Zealand’s dairy industry may suffer a backlash after an animal rights group placed an advertisement in a U.K. newspaper highlighting what it says are cruel practices on the nation’s farms, Prime Minister John Key said.
“It’s a form of economic sabotage,” Key told reporters in Wellington Monday. The aim of the advertisement appears to be to stop international consumers buying New Zealand products and “it runs the risk that it damages us,” he said.