The famous New Zealand milk and butter production is based on palm oil

New Zealand is the most famous dairy producer in the southern hemisphere, its exporter of butter. But behind the glorious figures there is the sad reality: half of the fodder needed for production cannot be produced locally, and half of the imports are palm oil extract. Summer ended with lush pastures in New Zealand (source: resources.stuff.co.nz) New Zealand produces 22 million liters of milk a year. While this seems a negligible amount to the world’s number one producer, with Europe emitting 168 million, we are still talking about the largest player in the southern hemisphere, the world’s number one butter exporter. It exports 420-460 thousand tons of butter a year (mainly to Asia), while Europe supplies only about 300 thousand tons to foreign markets. (New Zealand is also a top exporter of whole milk powder, while the EU focuses on cheese making and sells the resulting skimmed milk powder to the world.) out of the USDA report. New Zealand produces one and a half times as many ...