Rachel Stewart
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Rachel Stewart: Fate of Fonterra - don't say you weren't warned
COMMENT: Years have been spent ignoring fact Fonterra was heading toward the rocks.
Rachel Stewart: Dinosaurs keep hawking past as Godzone's future
COMMENT: A clear vision of agriculture in NZ will not be forthcoming from usual suspects.
Rachel Stewart: Earth is heating up and activism will too
COMMENT: The environmental movement, like every other movement, is changing dramatically.
Rachel Stewart: Dignified death of a feisty farm cat
COMMENT: This isn't really a column about my dead cat, though it might appear that way.
Rachel Stewart: Owning firearms a privilege not a right
COMMENT: Whatever Govt decides, I am fully prepared to relinquish my semi-automatics.
Rachel Stewart: Drums of water war echoing in pipeline
COMMENT: Minister's lack of action on vital resource letting council dig in defences.
Rachel Stewart: Animal cruelty – a storm is coming
COMMENT: If you're shocked now, your hair will soon curl.
Rachel Stewart: Why kill animals after an 'attack'?
Comment: Animals attack us when we invade their space and we need to realise this.
Rachel Stewart: Signs of a stressed-out dairy industry
COMMENT: If farmers don't find a new way forward soon, they'll feel more alone than ever.
Rachel Stewart: Why I've come to love those cows
COMMENT: Studies show cows have personalities and emotions, just like cats and dogs.
Rachel Stewart: Ministry's cunning plan fails again
COMMENT: Farmers should have acted sooner but MPI should have too.
Rachel Stewart: Yee-ha! Rodeo is doomed
COMMENT: So, we all know in our hearts that rodeo is wrong.
Rachel Stewart: Boy racer noise drowns quiet country life
COMMENT: Why do we have to put up with these stupid antics?
Fonterra's spin makes me want to throw up
COMMENT: Fonterra's waterways plan requires a bucket, writes Rachel Stewart.
Rachel Stewart: BigAg must wake up to synthetic threat
COMMENT: Artificial milk and meat pose huge risk to farming industry.
Rachel Stewart: We're all feeling the squeeze
Opinion: Perfect potpourri of planetary problems is upon us.
Rachel Stewart: I'm not afraid of big bad Winston
COMMENT: Peters has always demonstrated a willingness to do a deal, says Rachel Stewart.
Rachel Stewart: Don't feel sorry for farmers
COMMENT: National is talking up the urban-rural divide to get votes, says Rachel Stewart.
Rachel Stewart: That's right polluters, it's time to pay
COMMENT: There is overwhelming public support for a water royalty, says Rachel Stewart.
Rachel Stewart: Hysteria over water policy pitiful
COMMENT: Labour's water policy is not as difficult to understand as you might think.
Let's hope the mud festival is clean
COMMENT: NZ is importing mud from South Korea where foot and mouth disease has occurred.
Rachel Stewart: Dad's illness and Trump
Experience of father's gradual decline has parallels with unstable behaviour of Trump.
Rachel Stewart: How to tarnish tourism glow
COMMENT: Quantity over quality will turn round to bite tourism industry.
Fighting until cows come home
COMMENT: Dairy farmers and industry mouthpieces love to say they are environmental angels.
Clarke made us appreciate ourselves
COMMENT: John Clarke's genius was what made him distinct, writes Rachel Stewart.
Rachel Stewart: Make the polluters pay
COMMENT: I've always suspected NZ's scarcity of environmental enforcement was willful.
Rachel Stewart: I'm with the river
COMMENT: The Te Awa Tupua Bill is a unique approach which we need more of.
The ethics of sustainable water quality
COMMENT: Moral implications seem a bridge too far in decisions on management of key resource, opines Rachel Stewart.
Rachel Stewart: Fake food is our future
COMMENT: There's something about animal farming and meat-eating that defies rational gravity.
Rachel Stewart: Fighting the good fight
COMMENT: Personal battles are waste of energy when tackling climate change requires us all.
Rachel Stewart: Stage set for worse to come
COMMENT: Not even a week into Trump's presidency, it's crystal clear that US citizens are now dealing with a fascist regime, writes Rachel Stewart.
Put your money where your mouth is
COMMENT: Reliable as clockwork, and right on cue, DairyNZ stepped up to the microphone and shot themselves in the head.