From The Ridge (FTR); I’m sorry, I didn’t quite catch that, I thought you said I was to be retrained.
FTR; I’m sorry, I think we are at cross purposes here. Have you got the right person? I don’t need to be retrained. I’ve already got a job.
FTR; Yes, that’s me. But I’m not looking for another job. I’m a farmer.
FTR; Who says its going to be redundant?
FTR: Have you been spending time with James Cameron? I see he’s banging on again about stopping eating meat to save the world. Doesn’t seem to worry himself about jetting about all over the place, running several houses and using ruminants on his properties to control the feed and eat crop residues. As it happens, I’ve just had a quick look at your own expenditure on air travel. Between April 1 and June 30 you managed to spend $9093 just for that quarter. That’s more than I’ve spent on air travel in 30 years. The previous quarter you spent $12,000 and $9000 the quarter before that and $7000 before that making it $37,000 for the year. Oh, and some $13,000 on car travel during that year. That’s a large amount of emissions. Doesn’t that strike you as a little hypocritical?
FTR; Chloe, you are a list MP, you don’t have any constituents. And a necessary part of my job is to grow food to feed people. That’s why I have ruminants.
FTR; Lady, I don’t know what planet you are on but on my farm and most other sheep and beef farms the soils, topography and climate mean we have only two choices – ruminants or pine trees. We can’t crop them. I struggle to grow a decent brassica half the time.
FTR; I’ve already personally planted 60,000 trees on my 360ha farm and recently got a gang in to plant another 15,000. How many trees have you planted out of interest?
FTR; Haven’t we got enough baristas? There’s one on every corner here in Waipukurau. I imagine it’s the same everywhere else.
FTR; I already do. We call it grass and we repackage it into convenient packs of protein called chops, burgers and steaks.
FTR; I’ll tell you what Chloe, bring Golriz, Marama, James, Jan and the others to my place and we will have a drive around and a chat and see if we can find some common ground. You don’t think I’ve grasped the challenges ahead of all of us and I don’t think you have a pragmatic view on what is really happening in the real world. It’s a genuine offer. Deal?
