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The New Zealand “condition” seems to be getting increasingly desperate, writes Polly Gillespie Meth is as easy to get as a pizza, but buying a fencepost is near impossible. Thousands of homeless, addicted, and mentally ill New Zealanders are shoved in shoddy lodges and emergency housing, quite often owned by slum landlords. The Ministry of Social Development seems to throw millions of dollars at them for ridiculous high rents and repairs. No-one seems to have thought about the slums and ghettos they re creating. Women s Refuge gets busier by the day. Crooked bosses employ otherwise unemployable labour and give them p.poor money, no sick pay, no holiday pay, and they can do this knowing the workers have no other choice.
The fact that they promote highly-processed products ahead of fresh produce is something that we cannot understand
Peak fruit industry bodies encourage their growers not to use Health Star Ratings after baffling changes to juice calculator
Australia s peak apple and pear industry body is calling on growers and juice producers to strongly consider removing the Health Star Rating from their labels, following a decision to give fresh fruit and vegetable juice a lower health star rating than diet cola.
The Australian and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation voted to adopt changes to the Health Star Rating (HSR) calculator, effectively giving 100 per cent fresh fruit juice a 2.5-star rating, while sugar-free diet soft drinks receive 3.5 stars. APAL and Citrus Australia have lobbied for amendments that would recognise the many other nutritional benefits that fresh juice provides.