Let's go Shopping. Food Safety and Health

[lendmeurears]

It's all well and good to buy local, but local usually means paying a premium. And to be honest most of the local veggies my mum buys back from Otara market or what not looks unappetizing, I know it's shallow of me, but I prefer the almost artificial look of supermarket vegetables. They look 'cleaner' so to speak.

[MichaelnChristine]

Probably because you've never seen what veg is suppose to look like. For that matter if you can find local produce in January in Canada, with snow comin' down, you can find it anywhere. You just can't expect to make stuff with spring and summer veg. You have to eat apples instead of oranges etc...

[louis12346]

Monsanto soy beans are Good for you?

[areti1]

Excellent message. We are what we eat.

[Lagwagon555]

I wonder how many of those foods contain the dangerous dihyrdrogen monoxide, Sue? Hahaha...

[nzgreenparty]

Hey shibuyakun - thanks for your message, actually the Greens are the ones calling for a sustainability clause in the Biofuel legislation to make sure that any such fuels used in NZ are not sourced from rainforest clearance or land converted from food production.

[boday07]

I'm very pleased to hear this!!

[boday07]

I am voteing with my money from now on!

Thanks sue

[thecvxman]

why buy local made if they cannot produce it as cheap, often imported is better too as they have more modern 'soft sprays' which cannot get registered in NZ due to greenies making the red tape for spray registration so difficult companies just use old 'hard sprays'.

[MichaelnChristine]

Sprays kill animals, birds and people. DDT? Never here of it? Ever see a farm where they spray? They were hazmat gear and they are black and dead about half the year. Look it up.

[thecvxman]

yes, I here of it, I do were hazchem gear, perhaps you should so your brain wouldn't fry trying to spell big words like 'hear and wear'. What is black and dead for half a year, the farmers?? Never seen a deal black farmer since I was in South Africa!!

[MichaelnChristine]

Oh I ges sum buddy got a wittle bent out of shape by a few typ-oes. I don't think I have to defend my wife's issues with English to you, nor will I. None of your remarks change the fact that GM food and commercial agriculture produce inferior products that damage human health, that farmers in much of the world no longer use cover crops to avoid errosion etc... Eat the garbage, more of the real food for the rest of us.

[Zealandia13]

Great message! Keep up the good work Sue!

[ryan76nz]

2 million tonnes of food imported!!! That's it, I'm growing some of my own.

[airbarracuda]

Sigh. Good and correct message, but it seems everyone in the Green party lacks charisma. They fail absolutely in conveying information to the public in an engaging and convincing way.

[shibuyakun]

Good message but as usual not realistic our farmer simply can't offer the cheap prices that imports do. Also your support of bio-fuel is adding to the prices of food not to mention all the rainforests that are getting cut down for it. Although i support your country of origin label idea.

[linuxluver]

Great video with an excellent message.