How bizarre to learn NZ Border Protection ‘experts' allowing pork to be imported into NZ from countries known to suffer from a dreaded pig disease that NZ is totally free of?
NZ's an island nation furthest from anywhere in the world, and that fact has a huge favour for us...if not abused.!
In just recent years we now are noted worldwide as having been 'infected” with:- 800 Africans who were not tested for HIV (and subsequently several tested positive), Didymo, Giardia (ruining natural drinking water, even the free-flowing pipe at the top of the Kaimais), * wire-worm (the only major ailment affecting ratites), PSA (which has effectively wiped out dozens of kiwifruit orchardists lives, and our local economy)...the list goes on....
'Kiwis” are ratites, and recently, wire-worm devastated the Ostrich/Emu industry where whole farms of birds were wiped out, and we hear of them no more!
Yet our border patrol could have simply asked the South African farmers of any ailments and would have been told 'only wire-worm”, and subsequently would have remedied it by simple quarantine and drench. Now it is in our soil, and destined to work it's way into our bush...and our kiwis?
Michael Donovan, Tauranga.
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