Pissapocalypse: New Zealand’s dairy little secret

Abstract

New Zealand, home to 0.06% of the world’s population, contributed nearly 22% to the global dairy market in 2019. New Zealanders are twice as likely to fall ill from campylobacter as Britons, and three times more than Australians or Canadians. Half of New Zealand’s lakes are irreversibly damaged and two thirds of its rivers are too polluted to swim in.