Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Dr Mike Joy apologising after calling for dairy industry leaders to be hanged - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

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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