by Vincent Heeringa | May 19, 2022 | Opinion
Alt-protein is such an amorphous category of technology and food, we haven’t really fully unpacked it. Vincent Heering was joined on Feed Weekly podcast by Dr Georgina Dowd, of Plant & Food Research, to talk all things cultured meat and about her work...
by Vincent Heeringa | May 12, 2022 | News
Food industry leaders are chomping following the government’s announcement that the international border will reopen August 1. Here’s what happened this week, in case you missed it. Speaking to business groups on Tuesday, the Prime Minister and other...
by Vincent Heeringa | May 4, 2022 | Opinion
New Zealand households throw out 230,000 tonnes of food waste annually, of which 54% was avoidable – that is, still edible. That’s enough to feed two cities the size of Dunedin or to provide lunches for all school-aged children for three years. Yikes. Where doe...
by Vincent Heeringa | Apr 27, 2022 | Opinion
The government is set to ban sugary drinks from schools. Given that one in three New Zealand kids are overweight or obese, you’d think that might make a professor of public health happy. But Grant Schofield of AUT University is unimpressed. He think the ban will do...
by Vincent Heeringa | Apr 26, 2022 | Opinion
I doubt Michael Pollan was thinking of the New Zealand primary sector when he wrote his seminal work, In Defence of Food, but he might as well have. His now-famous phrase could be our national food strategy: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” The...