It seems the past chairman and current member of Meat Industry Excellence (MIE), John McCarthy, has taken umbrage at the Hound’s suggestion in the May 3 issue.
The suggestion was of a certain amount of Chinese-bashing by those opposed to the SFF/Shanghai Maling deal. However, your old mate reckons if it walks like a duck (Peking perhaps?) and talks like a duck, then it is most likely a duck. For starters, this old mutt has never issued a media release asking, “Will our killing sheets be in Mandarin?”, but McCarthy has. Nor has your canine crusader ever heard a peep of discontent from McCarthy – or from his political buddy Winston Peters – against British ex-pats buying farms or businesses in NZ.