Irritating attention seekers

[Hitcher]

This morning I see that an "organisation" calling itself GE Free New Zealand is having a moan about the Fonterra/San Lu debacle compromising New Zealand's "clean, green" image.

Sigh.

1. "Organisations" such as GE Free New Zealand generally comprise about one or two anaemic vegan goths and a word processor. They represent nobody and usually aren't even legal entities. However this doesn't stop our slack media giving them column centimetres and therefore encouraging their inane utterances.

2. The likes of GEFNZ are also paranoid conspiracy theorists. They lie awake at night believing that "big business" aided and abetted by the Government is hell-bent on transforming New Zealand into a desolate, polluted, reeking wasteland.

Let's explore that for one moment in the Fonterra/San Lu context. Why would they? Fonterra has succeeded famously exporting New Zealand dairy products to the world. Why would they deliberately take risks that jeopardised a reputation hard-won over the past 75 years?

Fonterra is not an innocent party here. Indeed they have fucked up majorly. Their public relations counsel has been appalling, I suspect heavily influenced by their legal counsel.

3. What has genetic "engineering" got to do with Fonterra/San Lu? The melamine appears to have been added by dodgy unknown individuals involved in the Chinese milk production supply chain. There are no GE cows being farmed anywhere in the world, and there is no genetically modified construct containing melamine in any organism.

4. New Zealand is only comparatively clean and green, and then not in all cases. I have ranted before on this sad reality. GEFNZ and others are missing the point entirely about enhancing New Zealand's environmental performance. Issuing media statements that offer no constructive solutions are facile and should be exposed as such.

5. GEFNZ is potentially contributing to the problem that they are railing against by drawing public attention to it.

6. Me, mad? Damned right I am.

[Ixion]

Why are they so opposed to the products of the General Electric Corporation?

I have used various of them over the years, with complete satisfaction.

I would be prepared to recommend GE to anyone seeking electrical appliances.

[Pussy]

Why are they so opposed to the products of the General Electric Corporation?

I have used various of them over the years, with complete satisfaction.

I would be prepared to recommend GE to anyone seeking electrical appliances.

They make very good lightbulbs, IMHO

[nodrog:Me]

somebody should remind these hippies that without genetic engineering, they would still be taking their LSD the old way, licking some mouldy grain.

[Clockwork]

If I were you I'd get a BDOTGNZA spokesperson to contact the media about this!

[puddytat]

[Mully]

I would be prepared to recommend GE to anyone seeking electrical appliances.

But not their finance company.

[The Pastor]

actually i agree with them GE money are complete ass-wipes.

[Pussy]

actually i agree with them GE money are complete ass-wipes.

It's "ARSE- wipes"

[Finn]

But not their finance company.

Hmmm but they are still standing and offering money to those in need. Unlike most NZ operated finance companies that bit the dust and took a lot of mum and dads with them.

[vifferman]

They make very good lightbulbs, IMHO

Buy them while you can, before they are outlawed by the Green Nutters for killing the baby fur seal whale penguins.

[vifferman]

Me, mad? Damned right I am.

Perfickly understandibble.

[Swoop]

They make very good lightbulbs, IMHO

But their vaccum cleaners sucked.

Boom, tish!

[Badjelly]

But not their finance company.

Hmmm but they are still standing and offering money to those in need.

I think they ask for it back eventually.

[alanzs]

Buy them while you can, before they are outlawed by the Green Nutters for killing the baby fur seal whale penguins.

I think it is the GAY baby fur seal whale penguins they try to protect...

When that Fitzsimmons person (ugly bitch if it's a woman) from the Greens said that we should all get back to using wood to heat our homes, I just about split a gut. So, I'm supposed to go to the local forest and scavenge for wood? Kinda like back in the old days, circa 1700? And this is supposed to be progress? What a fucking loon! And their election posters which say "Vote for me" and there is a picture of the earth. Oh fucking please....