I fully support Country of Origin labelling on food, I believe it should be mandatory, especially after the melamine scare, the chemicals fed to Chinese pigs and the list goes on.
I think you should be careful in this lobby not to sound like you're 'bashing' or blanket counter marketing food from a particular country of origin. So while communicating the need for country of origin, how about concentrating on sustainability issues to do with transportation instead of "horror" stories about Chinese production.
And the likely technology to facilitate your food labeling idea is perhaps QR Codes (See wikipedia)
Japan has this law for fruit and vegetables. It makes shopping more interesting thinking about where the food comes from. It does make me buy less stuff that comes from far away. I avoid buying New Zealand pumpkin for example. I'd rather buy stuff from China, which is closer. People don't get sick that much from food from China! And it's usually just stuff like gyoza, which I don't think people should eat anyway.
I think it should be up to the companies doing the importing to go and check who they are getting the food from - not the consumer just looking at the label and going, "omg it's from China, it might be poisonous".
Immediate sickness isn't the only concern. You don't know what is in the food: heavy metals, sprays, whatever. These can have implications in the longer term.
I watched a program a while back and they did experiments to find out what effects of the spray etc.. in our veges and fruit have our body. They found you would have eat a truck load of tunip(i think that was the example) before it has any effect on our bodies. BTW thats all in one sitting.
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jfslkdfldskjfsd 1 year ago
I fully support Country of Origin labelling on food, I believe it should be mandatory, especially after the melamine scare, the chemicals fed to Chinese pigs and the list goes on.
Rosehawknz 2 years ago
Buy Aotearoa, Good on ya Greens!
boday07 3 years ago
It's really not that much to ask, to know where your food came from. We are entitled to know what's in our food - why not this?
ryan76nz 3 years ago
I think you should be careful in this lobby not to sound like you're 'bashing' or blanket counter marketing food from a particular country of origin. So while communicating the need for country of origin, how about concentrating on sustainability issues to do with transportation instead of "horror" stories about Chinese production.
And the likely technology to facilitate your food labeling idea is perhaps QR Codes (See wikipedia)
leighblackall 3 years ago
Japan has this law for fruit and vegetables. It makes shopping more interesting thinking about where the food comes from. It does make me buy less stuff that comes from far away. I avoid buying New Zealand pumpkin for example. I'd rather buy stuff from China, which is closer. People don't get sick that much from food from China! And it's usually just stuff like gyoza, which I don't think people should eat anyway.
thedailyenglishshow 3 years ago
I think it should be up to the companies doing the importing to go and check who they are getting the food from - not the consumer just looking at the label and going, "omg it's from China, it might be poisonous".
thedailyenglishshow 3 years ago
Immediate sickness isn't the only concern. You don't know what is in the food: heavy metals, sprays, whatever. These can have implications in the longer term.
linuxluver 3 years ago
I watched a program a while back and they did experiments to find out what effects of the spray etc.. in our veges and fruit have our body. They found you would have eat a truck load of tunip(i think that was the example) before it has any effect on our bodies. BTW thats all in one sitting.
shibuyakun 3 years ago