Milked

It's incredibly powerful and it's incredibly devious.

– Former farmer and writer Rachel Stewart on the power of industrial dairying in New Zealand

I already knew a lot about the dairy industry and its trajectory before working on this project, but Milked helped bring all the pieces together. This experience emphasised the urgency of these issues, but in a way that also provides a pathway for change.

– Activist and producer Chris Huriwai on making Milked, in an 11 October 2021 press release

I'm not angry at the farmers but the system that they're caught up in is utterly flawed.

– Ecologist Mike Joy on the battle to change dairy farming practises

If you had told me 10 years ago that I would say this, I would not have believed you. Pay the $12 billion and get the cows off there.

– Ecologist Mike Joy on stopping dairying in high risk places like the Canterbury Plains, at a 2021 environmental conference, Stuff, 6 August 2021

Dairying's impacts are chiefly: the amount of water used to create milk; the effluent that pollutes the soil, aquifers and waterways; the way in which soil is compacted by heavy animals; and the greenhouse gases that cattle emit. In addition dairy processors are significant energy users and greenhouse gas emitters. Fonterra burns about 410,000 tonnes of coal to turn liquid milk into powder.

– Writer Gerard Hutching on the impact of dairying on New Zealand's environment, Stuff 25 August 2018

We've gone down industrial agriculture big time and we've got industrial-sized emissions.

– Former Green Party MP Gareth Hughes on New Zealand embracing industrial farming models

We originally planned to investigate the environmental and health impacts of all animal agriculture in Aotearoa but once we got further into researching, it was obvious that dairy was the story to tell...

– Director/producer Amy Taylor, in an 11 October 2021 press release on the film

Although we brag about producing the most sustainable milk in the world, the total emissions from our booming dairy industry has increased by 132% in the last 30 years... one study even showed in the next decade Fonterra will make up more than 100% of New Zealand's total emission's target.

– Activist and Milked producer Chris Huriwai, in the excerpt