Election 2020 - Party Policies - Health - Food
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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- Address income inadequacy and ensure that minimum wage and benefit rates reflect the cost of food.
- Develop a National Food Strategy for self-sufficiency in food production and security of food supply in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Promote research into ecological footprint analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand diets, including the relative contribution of plant-based and animal-based diets (including seafood) and methods of food production, processing and food miles on ecological footprints.
- Introduce standards and guidelines in schools so that all food and drink sold is nutritious, and include education in schools about growing food, supply chains and nutrition.
- Ensure that food is labelled so that consumers can easily see all ingredients and additives listed, including whether they are derived from animal sources or from GE, irradiated or palm oil products.
- Develop a national strategy to eliminate hazards and risks of infection, with the aim of reducing the incidence of, for example, Campylobacter and Salmonella contamination in the food chain and focusing initially on poultry rearing and processing plants.
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- Change the regulations and speed up the approval process for Kiwi scientists to use gene editing. We want to see applications with clear environmental, social, and economic benefits approved for release, not shoved on the back burner.
- Narrowing the definition of a new organism in the HSNO Act.
- Empower the Environmental Protection Agency to review the best gene editing science from overseas, so we can take advantage of developments that could cure debilitating genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis, which is the most common life-threatening inherited disease in New Zealand.
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