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Uploaded by on May 20, 2008

Green MP Sue Kedgley questions economist and investor Gareth Morgan about food safety standards and the Green Party's call for country of origin food labelling.

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  • a voice only surpassed in stupidity by his moustache.

  • 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.

  • Buy Aotearoa, Good on ya Greens!

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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)

  • 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 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".

  • 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.

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