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Kōrero: Britain, Europe and New Zealand

French farmers protesting about New Zealand imports

Video file

This television news clip from 1991 shows French farmers burning boxes of New Zealand meat they had hijacked from trucks that were transporting it. They felt that meat imports were threatening their livelihoods.

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Martin Holland rāua ko Serena Kelly, Britain, Europe and New Zealand – Relations with Britain and Europe in the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/36823/french-farmers-protesting-about-new-zealand-imports (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Martin Holland rāua ko Serena Kelly, i tāngia i te 29 May 2012.