A Victoria University academic has apologised after making public comments suggesting dairy industry leaders should be hanged.
Dr Mike Joy, a senior research fellow at the Wellington university and freshwater advocate, made a LinkedIn post suggesting the dairy industry was putting people at risk nitrate contamination of drinking and groundwater.
The Country's Jamie Mackay explained further.
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