The Wrap: He Waka Eke Noa lays down emissions challenge to government

by Vincent Heeringa | Jun 9, 2022 | News, Opinion

The long-awaited report regarding primary sector emissions was announced this week and is already on the desks of ministers James Shaw and Damien O’Connor for review. What happens next dictates how primary sector emissions, the largest of New Zealand’s...

This is good. So what else have you got to show us, agri-business?

by Vincent Heeringa | May 26, 2022 | Opinion

Some good news for a change. Seeing the Prime Minister launch Net Carbon Zero by Nature beef in the US this week is pleasing. It’s a moment worth remembering – and not just because after so long being the hermit kingdom we are finally making a splash in the Big Apple....

Cultured meats – talking alt protein and the new way to catch fish, with Dr Georgina Dowd

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...

The wrap: Food sector licks lips at prospect of border opening

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...

We need to talk about food waste: $870 million of it, says Dr Jeff Seadon

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...