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  • Food Policy

    April 11, 2020 12:00 PM
    Click here for our 2020 Farming for the Future Plan Food should be safe, healthy, affordable and cruelty free. People have a right to know about their food choices Labelling standards should accurately tell people where their food comes from, what’s in it, how it was produced, its national value, and its environmental impact. Labelling should alert people to the presence of GE ingredients, factory farmed animal products, palm oil, additives, imported ingredients, growth hormones, and irradiated foods. New Zealand...
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  • Kids need feeding now, let’s fund more food in schools

    Marama Davidson December 10, 2018 11:42 AM
    A report showing one in five New Zealand children don’t have enough food should prompt urgent action to roll out a national strategy for free food in schools, Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson said today.  
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  • Green Party Bill on Country of Origin Food Labelling passes into law

    Gareth Hughes November 29, 2018 7:35 AM
    A Green Party member’s bill that allows New Zealanders to know where their food comes was passed almost unanimously by Parliament today, Green Party MP Gareth Hughes has announced. 
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  • Greens announce plan for honest food labelling

    September 09, 2017 10:38 AM
    The Green Party today announced a plan for honest food labelling to ensure ‘free range’ means what it says, and consumers can easily see where their food comes from. In government, the Green Party will develop mandatory consumer information standards for ‘free range’ and country of origin labelling under the Fair Trading Act. Country of origin labelling will apply to single ingredient foods like fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, nuts, grains, and oils. “We all have a right to know where...
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  • Kiwis one step closer to knowing where their food is from

    April 12, 2017 8:03 PM
    Support for Green MP Steffan Browning’s member’s bill is a win for the vast majority of New Zealanders who want to know where the food they buy is produced, the Green Party said today.
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  • Poll shows huge support for Greens’ country of origin labelling bill

    March 09, 2017 9:41 AM
    The Green Party is calling for cross-party support for its Members’ Bill that would introduce mandatory country of origin labelling for meat, fruit, vegetables and nuts, after the release of a poll that shows more than 70 percent of New Zealanders support the idea.
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  • Govt should follow EU and ban toxic herbicide ingredient

    August 16, 2016 11:37 AM
    The Green Party is calling on the Government to ban the toxic ingredient POEA, after answers to written questions to the Minister for the Environment revealed it is an undisclosed ingredient in almost 90 products sold in New Zealand. The European Union (EU) Commission has recommended that EU member states ban the use of Polyoxyethylene tallow amine (POEA), a common ingredient in herbicides like Roundup, which researchers expect could cause cell damage and death, and may cause pregnancy problems including...
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  • Govt keeping consumers in the dark about hepatitis A scare

    December 02, 2015 10:49 AM
    The hepatitis A berry outbreak has highlighted that consumers are in the dark about where their food comes from, the Green Party said today. Four cases of hepatitis A have been traced back to frozen imported berries, but consumers cannot choose to buy local berries because no country of origin labelling is required, and the Ministry of Primary Industries refuses to say which brands are involved. “People should be able to find out where their food comes from, so they...
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  • Govt needs to investigate links between anti-biotic resistance and herbicide

    November 22, 2015 12:02 PM
    The National Government needs to investigate links between anti-biotic resistance and herbicides including the commonly used herbicide glyphosate after news that an anti-biotic resistant strain of campylobacter is now present in New Zealand, the Green Party said today. “Glypohosate, the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller, is commonly sprayed on GE soy crops around the world. GE soy is widely used in chicken feed in New Zealand, yet herbicide residue levels are not tested for in animal feed. “University of Canterbury’s...
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