The case for a Kiwi Subsidy on all NZ Kai
I am sick to death of having to compete with the 40million middle class Chinese who can compete for prices to food that is grown in NZ!
By the numbers: Who is eating all of our food if we make enough to feed 40 million people?
Experts are calling for a national food plan to tackle problems of food insecurity – despite the country producing enough food to feed 40 million people a year.
New Zealand ranks 14th in the world for food self-sufficiency – but you wouldn’t always know it by our supermarket shelves.
So how much food are we actually producing, and who is eating it all?
40 million
As a nation of five million people, New Zealand feeds more than 40 million global consumers each year, according to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.
..why should we be competing against international prices for food grown here?
We need a kiwi subsidy on all local produce to recognize that producers have already used water and created local climate changing gases to create their product and as such consumers have already paid a price just to get the product to their table.
We should feed the 5million here first before boasting about feeding 40million world wide!
Calls to ‘feed the 5 million first’ before exporting NZ food
People are going hungry even though New Zealand produces enough food to feed 40 million – and it’s spurring calls for the country to “feed the five million first”.
Almost 40 percent of New Zealand households experience food insecurity, while 19 percent of children live in households that experience food insecurity.
Poverty researcher Dr Rebekah Graham said while working on her thesis on food insecurity, she interviewed a woman who walked for 90 minutes each day to get a free community meal.
…it is outrageous that children born in this nation can not taste the harvest of NZ because it is being sold to the wealthy overseas!
We need a Kiwi subsidy on all food and we can do that by removing GST on all NZ made raw food.
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The government could declare that agricultural production is a matter of national security, and therefore exports must pass through a single desk marketer owned by the state, in the manner of the Wheat Board.
If it was determined that there were domestic shortages, this Agricultural Export Board could simply refuse to take additional produce for export.
It was fascinating to see that Consumer Magazine (hardly any sort of revolutionary gazette) had recommended this model be applied to the domestic wholesale grocery trade.
We need to feed our own at subsidised rates on the back of lucrative exports.
If there is food shortages or scarcity then export markets get turned off like a fucken tap.
By legislation.
Well there is the most stupid comment ive ever heard,. Who do you think pays for outr health system, education system and no doubt your benefit? The Chinese you fucking moron
A country is as wealthy in proportion to its productivity and/or stuff it can sell overseas. Its just like any other business.
That’s why the Western world is wealthy – they outstrip everyone else, still, in productivity.
NZ does not produce computers, smart phones, and the dumb fraction of our population is ever increasing. Our competitive advantage is agriculture.
Who pays for Pharmac, modern infrastructure, first world infrastructure, your PC etc – –its because you live in a wealthy country, still, and that wealth is largely based on the agricultural sector selling overseas.
If we stop selling out stuff overseas and we soon end up as poor as PNG or Tonga.
Food and water have strategic value higher than your economic value.
People will riot over food and water.
It’s beyond me why we have to pay more for our own food than someone in Norway.
Because of our “free” health care we already subsidise animal products, fast food and sugar since they do not pay the health system cost that the majority incur by excess consumption of those products. While people want the price reduced for their favourite foods we will be better off if only healthy food is subsidised.
The old saying–“don”t let a good disaster go to waste” as run by Benard Hickey earlier this week, applies to food prices and a whole lot of other stuff. Strike hard and fast. Just Do it.
All the parties are so used to timidity, 3 year cycles and getting re-elected that they are shit scared of bold moves. PM Chris could easily implement such measures to acclaim from working class people.