New Zealand Council of Homeopaths

Concerns over animal welfare issues on farms have seen Rural Women New Zealand and Fonterra rapped with the Bent Spoon, an annual recognition of gullibility and a lack of critical thinking awarded by the New Zealand Skeptics.

Rural Women New Zealand gave the Supreme prize in its Enterprising Rural Women Award to Homeopathic Farm Support, a company which follows the homeopathic practice of diluting substances until there is no active material left and then claiming that the water somehow "remembers" what was once in it. Homeopathic Farm Support provides a line of such products, claiming that homeopathy can be used to "prevent and treat symptoms of acute and chronic animal ailments" including mastitis, post calving haemorrhage. pinkeye, scours, first aid and even emotional problems in livestock.