The time is right to be telling the story of New Zealand food production. But what should we say? And are our marketers up to the job?
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Live sheep exports: I'm grumpy
Make no mistake - the live export of 53,000 animals from Timaru to Mexico is worth getting grumpy about
Read MoreOf chickens, and eggs
NAWAC’s proposed new minimum standard, for ‘enriched’ cages for battery hens, still denies the hens the daily things that bring most joy to their clucking hearts: freedom, and humanity
Read MoreThe price and profits of freedom farming
As consumers wake up to the false economy and cruelty of ‘factory’ meat and poultry, free range producers are bringing home the bacon while sales soar, according to industry sources
Read MoreSaving the piggies’ bacon from the draft welfare code
NAWAC’s draft welfare code for pigs, on which submissions close this week, is conservative, and not supported by the experience of free range pork producers, who speak openly to Pundit about their pigs
Read MoreHow many years is an animal's life worth?
I have a pet. Being cruel to animals is wrong. But why put more people in jail for it?
Read MoreNational Policy Statement: wholly happy cows
We need a national debate on cubicle dairy farming, and dairy farming in general – is it the backbone of this country, or the boil on our behind? And what's it worth to us?
Read MoreBeing kind to the cruel: the animal welfare sentencing problem
Animal cruelty sentencing demonstrates a mercy not shown by the offenders to their furry victims. The offenders have something to say too, about all of us
Read MoreThe Sunday pork roast
It’s got all the right ingredients: local celebrity, an epiphany, cute animals, industry bad guys, hoodwink, public outrage - the media’s happy as a pig in muck, this week. But why did it take so long?
Read MoreKilling sacred cows
Vegetarians and vegans have taken the moral high ground, but think again - in a fossil-fuel challenged world, animals need to be part of the food chain.
Read MoreA fox in charge of the henhouse?
Animal welfare law seems to be an ass. Only you can fix it
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