Food
Food is one of the most import things in our lives, and yet we often have no idea what we are eating, where it has come from or what it will do to us.
The Green Party wants our food to be safe to eat, properly labelled and free of GE, antibiotics and pesticides.
We have run a major Food Revolution campaign for the last two years, a well as winning government programmes for the organics industry and better school nutrition.
Read our food policy and check out our latest campaigns:
What's new?
Treasured places stunt and Rob Hamill
At Parliament this week, Green Co-Leader Metiria Turei launched a petition to protect our National Parks and other treasured places from mining. Green MP Sue Kedgley presented a 16,000-signature petition aimed at keeping junk food out of schools. Sue was joined by champion athlete Rob Hamill.
Real Food Please
Real Food Please - speech given by Sue Kedgley at the National Farmers Market Conference in Melbourne, Australia. Sunday 23 August 2009
Dr Shiv Chopra...Worried about what's in your Food?
This is a great chance to learn more about food safety and, also, to show your support for Russel and the Green Party in their by-election campaign.
Sue Kedgley's budget speech slamming the health cuts...
A few weeks ago employees at the Ministry of Health were being hailed as the stalwarts of our health system. They were paper-shuffling heroes who were keeping us safe from swine flu. But now those same employees are facing job cuts...
Healthy Food in Schools Campaign Launch
Sue Kedgley invites you to the Launch of the School Food Campaign and a Nationwide Petition to get unhealthy food and drink out of schools and to support edible gardens in schools.
Tell the public if melamine is currently for sale
The New Zealand public deserves to know if any products contaminated by melamine are currently on supermarket shelves, said Green MP Sue Kedgley.
Fonterra has been told by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) to hold around 30,000 tonnes of affected product – milk powder with an iron additive that has been tainted overseas by melamine.
The Dunedin Greens Eco Film Festival: Food Matters
"Food Matters", an informative look into what's wrong with the modern food supply. Entry by donation. Suggested donation $10Waged/$7 Unwaged
Consumers opt for cheaper, unhealthy foods – Green survey
A Green Party snapshot grocery shopper survey has found that many New Zealanders are increasingly unable to afford healthy food and are purchasing cheaper less healthy alternatives in order to feed their families.
Better to be safe than sorry - Greens
The Green Party is calling on food safety authorities to take a precautionary approach and test fruit and vegetables imported from China, following reported possible finds of melamine contamination in other countries.
Food Links
"The Future of Food" DVD is an excellent documentary which examines the impact of genetic engineering on the future of food, as well as the increasing globalisation and centralisation of our food supplies.
Safe Food Campaign - The Safe Food Campaign is a nationwide organisation which campaigns for safer, healthier food. Information about additives, GE food, pesticides, irradiation, fluoridation and more. Recent information includes articles about canola oil, aspartame and myths about GE food.
NZ True Food Guide - from Greenpeace New Zealand, an excellent database of the GE status of food.
Dangers Of Genetic Engineering - excellent resource from the Mothers for Natural Law who are campaigning for labelling in the US. They have done a lot of research on the food industry and offer tips to identifying brands.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand - the former Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) was renamed on On 1 July 2002. Please change any links to the new website www.foodstandards.gov.au - Their email addresses also changed to the format firstname [dot] lastname [at] foodstandards [dot] gov [dot] au but their phone numbers and address remained the same.
Put in what you eat to work out how environmentally friendly your diet is
www.cspinet.org/EatingGreen/calculator.html
Suggest a link. Email: webmaster [at] greens [dot] org [dot] nz
Latest Food Videos
These are Green Party videos related to food issues.
