The War on News: Michelin stars for the rich, brain tacos for the poor & COP30 sell-out

This week on The War on News, Martyn Bradbury slices into government priorities so warped they’ll feed foie gras to the rich while dishing brain tacos to hungry kids — all while the planet melts.

🍽️ Michelin Stars Over Food Banks: The Government just paid $6.3 million for the French Michelin-Star programme to rate NZ’s high-end restaurants — while cutting $20 million from food bank funding. That’s 600,000 Kiwis relying on food banks every month, but sure, let’s make sure Queenstown’s wagyu steak gets a gold sticker from Paris.

🥩 David Seymour’s School Lunch Fiasco: Seymour handed school-lunch contracts to transnational giant Compass — and they repaid him by serving organ meat to Kiwi kids and destroying 2,000 local jobs. Now he’s crawling back to regional providers like it never happened. Poverty never tasted so delicious. Let them eat brain tacos.

🎓 Western Values Charter School Incoming: “Ultimate Academy” is ACT’s answer to public education — a charter school built on “Western values.” Guest lectures by David Seymour, Don Brash, and Damien Grant? Dress code: all-brown shirts. Why build a Western Values academy when we already have ZB, The Herald, and the *Members’ Lounge*?

🌍 COP30: Climate Sell-Out of the Century: With 2,000 fossil fuel lobbyists outnumbering climate advocates 5:1, COP30 looks less like a climate summit and more like a corporate strategy meeting. Arsonists at a fire safety conference. Flat-Earthers at a geography seminar. And oil executives at the helm of our planetary collapse.

The rich dine, the poor suffer, and the planet burns. It’s not news. It’s the War on News.

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