From TV3 …
” … the Government has classified worm farming as a “high-risk” industry.
This is what’s known as ‘Nanny State gone mad’.
What makes this even more ridiculous is the Government has deemed sheep, beef and dairy farming low-risk.
Yes, under the proposed law worm farming is listed alongside mining and forestry as high-risk, but most other farming is low-risk.
It simply does not make sense. In the past five years there have been 104 agriculture and farm deaths, but not a single one in worm farming…”
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