Farmers under attack - lobbyist - New Zealand

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Dairy farmers were being held responsible for greenhouse gas emissions that they could do little about without reducing food production, he said.

"What do these people really want? Apart from re-election," said Mr Brenmuhl, a Canterbury nut-farmer who has owned a dairy farm on the West Coast for 25 years.

"This election is about personal freedom, it is about the right of families to choose how they raise their children," he said.

"It is about the right of farmers to continue to produce food for the world and revenue for this nation".

Mr Brenmuhl -- a longterm critic of some Kyoto policies -- has previously said climate change proposals are a deliberate targeting of the machinery of the state against a minority group: farmers.