Te Pāti Māori's fresh new policy seeks to take control from big supermarkets
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In her hometown, Hauraki-Waikato candidate for Te Pāti Māori, Hana-Rawhiti Clarke-Maipi launched her party's latest policy seeking to give Māori more autonomy over food from 'seed to the dinner table'.

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What do we think of this ?

I’d say considering we produce for 40 million (at last count) This is objectively false. We produce for profit. Simple as that. We the population subsidize these corporations to use the land as they please. We then get left with what’s left over.

Give us the means and we can produce for ourselves. Not hard to grow zucchini. Literally throw seeds in some ground and they sprout up.

Need land and resources and can stop relying on supermarkets.

Obviously plenty of caveats on that way of thinking. However current system isn’t fit for purpose. Several individuals get obscenely wealthy while we create health inequalities. Governments are meant to be for the people. Currently that is not the case

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz
    5·
    10 months ago

    Oh good grief

    Te Pāti Māori would oppose the introduction of GE food into Aotearoa, while seeking to give Māori more protections over their cultural knowledge, practices and ceremonies associated with the production, distribution, and consumption of food.

    Can someone please explain to me why GE food is so bad, exactly?

    • Mojojojo1993@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      It’s not. All food is basically GE. None of this stuff existed millions of years ago. We genetically engineer all our crops. Our animals are all Bree to have certain characteristics. Have you seen what chickens used to look like? Nothing like modern birds.

      Everything is bred for certain things. Usually drought and disease resistant and also high yield.

      Someone should really do a PSA on this shit

      • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz
        4·
        10 months ago

        Someone should really do a PSA on this shit

        You’d really hope a political party wouldn’t need a PSA to tell them this, but this is TPM we’re talking about.