Frank Film: Have New Zealanders lost access to our own food? | nzherald.co.nz

[@patriciamurphy9691]

More of this please; it's about bloody time.

[@A5M1TH]

Yeah nah. More about how the problem was caused and who is keeping their foot on New Zealands neck. None of that was touched on in this video

[@colinmeehan791]

@@A5M1TH The best stuff is exported,the producers get way higher prices.NZers get whats left over.Same in Aus.

[@A5M1TH]

@@colinmeehan791 Yeah nah. I can go to a farm and get whatever beef, lamb, pork even goat that i want. Because its not owned by the Chinese, yet. I can go to a trawler and get fresh fish or prawns because its not owned by the Chinese, yet.

[@derekborkent2899]

99% off the comment sections are turned of to silence the general public. Too scared the truth might be told as to why we have shortages and exorbitant prices on all necessities of life. I want the Herald to have the balls and start Real reporting of the facts, truth and the comment section open on any article or subject. I for one would have a lot more respect for this news outlet. This could be the start.

[@timway6839]

And if you get caught buying like this you face the full law because you are not contributing to the country's demise

[@IroncladPanther]

did not expect this from mainstream media good work keep it up

[@Matt-Qodeshiym-talk]

My thoughts exactly, i was shocked that there is still some good news coverage out there where most of it is filled with rubbish propaganda pushing an agenda.

[@khzn9309]

Yes thanks to Frank Films and NZ Herald for bringing this to the Nations Conscience

[@denicebizz7342]

Whatever; puckapunyal couldn't care less about any Australians; only cared about porn and self serving pride and abusing women whatever sex they could get neither cared what that was detrimental to those Australians trying to do what they could do providing the best for all.; We are doomed

[@msimpson2779]

Shocking ae. Nz Herald, im shocked.

[@derekborkent2899]

Nobody reported the full reports about what was happening to the Dutch farmers. Only snippets, but they were shown to make the farmers look bad. It's all part of the big plan. Just ask the Greens, Mr Shaw. He, Cindy, and their clique are so far up the WEF's rectum it's nauseating.

[@r.1599]

I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, my mum commenting that NZ exports all its food and Kiwis were having to subsidise it by paying more for a block of NZ cheese than it was sold for overseas. It has never been acceptable, nor sensible. In the early 80s, Japanese and Russians were already fishing our seas bare, and trawling tearing up the ocean bottoms and destroying fish habitat was becoming a public concern. When I was a kid I could sit on the wharf, fish for a couple of hours, and fill my bucket up with fish. You could see the fish swimming around the wharf posts and people would swim in the water and chase them. By the mid-nineties, a kid fishing off the same wharf could sit there all day and not catch a thing...and not a single fish under the wharf. NZ has not looked after its land, water, and food resources. This has _got_ to change. We have seen the effects of climate change; there's a storm coming and we have to shore up our food security as part of preparing for it.

[@mythtree6348]

you live in an elite hideaway .. i will be surprised if they let any of you stay there and eat in a few years. no joke they want all the livestock gone and nature to reclaim the place. Any food produce wil lbe for foreign markets i guess but they want to greatlu reduce fisheries too.

[@ohasis8331]

I recall as a kid asking my mother why Australian butter was cheaper in England than in the corner shop next door. Just be glad that the chnese haven't got there yet.

[@r.1599]

@@ohasis8331 Oh, the Daigou. Horrible people. The NZ govt has been cracking down on exporting through unauthorised channels since 2012. I guess it's helping.

[@Jorwraith]

That's actually so sad

[@mythtree6348]

@@Jorwraith indians, chinese, africans etc often cant afford to buy the products they produce. this is what a global economy is.

[@MrOutlwd]

as a producer it disgusts me that i can get $7.60 a kg for a lamb that would weigh 19.5kg at the works for a profit of $ 148.20 and that same lamb processed can sell in a supermarket for over $450. the supply chain form farmer to consumer is littered with gross profiteering.

[@blablabla2616]

Yeah that is disgusting we need to go farm to community direct , screw the middle men and the greedy lying supermarkets

[@davidboskett5581]

You are confusing profit with the cost of production .There are many small butchers shops in NZ - why are they not 'creaming' it taking away the supermarkets business

[@rogan6947]

@@davidboskett5581 Because they are competing with international markets and the economy of scale.

[@craigsymington5401]

I noticed that nz lamb was cheaper in South Africa 5 years ago, at a 10:1 exchange rate. Something wrong, and its getting wronger!

[@geoffhemmings6546]

Its called gouging.... nz is rife with it in nearly all walks of life

[@robmort67]

couldn't agree more with the last comment. We have it the wrong way around in NZ. Feed kiwis 1st, make it cheaper Then export

[@EliseCao-o5f]

AGREEE

[@jaibusby673]

yeah what a surprise years ago a organic beef farmer told me that adecco would no longer give him "hooks" which means no traceability, corporate greed sold to politicians.

[@NZFORESTPRO]

Yes, brother, been saying that my whole life

[@khzn9309]

Bloody Oath flipping Government MPs running our Country don't matter if they Labour or National they always put their own People LAST

[@melissahoet7974]

Most definitely. Corporations are to blame as well as govt. These cooperatives like Fonterra have ruined the country.

[@moclair2246]

Absolutely! Been saying it for years! Unfortunately successive govts keep the same old system of selling everything overseas to the detriment of its own people. If people of Aotearoa had access to fresh food markets in all the towns and cities, there would not be the obesity, heart disease, diabetes which fill up our GP clinics and hospital beds meaning those who need emergency or long term treatment and surgery are suffering intolerably. Which political party is going to make the change?????

[@mythtree6348]

same in uk .. they want cross border trade and not healthy homegrown. it is fully deliberate.

[@melissahoet7974]

Not one of these clowns we have here in NZ is worthy of our leadership. None of them are for the people of NZ. They are all globalist puppets. Covid and the protests showed us what they think of us. As well as inflation, house prices etc. We have no visionaries or honest people.

[@khzn9309]

​@@melissahoet7974well said Melissa well said indeed

[@justinpollock]

There is not a political party that will change this for the better of nz ers

[@staal2691]

Not sure that’s all there is to it. I have seen and experienced a 38 year old with access to good food still choosing to eat junk. And they are over weight

[@jonomasonILoveU]

The price of fish at the supermarkets is a cruel joke, the price of meat is evil, Chicken is now unaffordable for most of our people. I love NZ, but come on Gov,do something for your people and leave the identity politics in the bin where it belongs.

[@davidboskett5581]

You cannot have cheap food if you want to be able to buy cheap clothes and other stuff from abroad. I suggest you exercise your brain more before making a comment.

[@jonomasonILoveU]

@@davidboskett5581 You are not making sense.

[@Westmansouth]

@@davidboskett5581 I would wear 1 good jumper made in NZ of NZ wool rather than a dozen cheap slave labor produced polyester crap jumpers imported from overseas, and if the NZ made jumpers were all the options we had, the makers of those wool jumpers would be able to sell them at a more reasonable price because of the high local demand, pessimists like you need to fade away into obscurity.

[@simoneerceg7116]

So come on NZ govt, due diligence, return our home grown nutrition to us. The fact that we hospitalize children with malnutrition is FRANKLY shameful

[@davidboyd8113]

In the governments due diligence it is allowed foreign owned companies to buyer companies that produce food in New Zealand they are only interested in Profit New Zealanders used to have quarter acre sections where they could grow some food for themselves but councils and government needed a workforce and forced people into the cities of the land so now the land is 400 square no room to grow any food

[@sharonmoore167]

When we sailed through Fjordland we were told by cray fisherman that their catch would be collected by mutiple helicopter trips and sent to China. The fisherman cruelly hold the crays in caches ( by size), waiting for market prices to peak and then quickly ship them out. The smaller, lesser quality crays are sold in NZ.

[@alchapopapo]

When i realised i could get a nicer cut of NZ lamb.. better butter and cheese, in Aussie for way cheaper...... it shook me. HOW did we let this happen.?! NZers deserve better!!!

[@sportysbusiness]

I first visited NZ 25 years ago from the UK and couldn't believe that things like NZ lamb, butter and wine were CHEAPER in England than here! The global financial and food systems are well and truly broken, instead of pushing for a cashless new world order where some overseas entity dictates what we do, we should be forcing independence and looking after ourselves. Charity begins at home.

[@nickmansfield1]

Not with any of the major political parties who have an absolute contempt for food safety and fair trading.

[@chrisblockley5783]

Greed is the problem.

[@no-grumpy-old-men]

eating fresh healthy food has become a luxury in New Zealand.

[@Salomaeful]

Brilliant work. I'm in Australia and our dairy farmers are struggling whilst the cheap dairy products in supermarkets are from New Zealand. That's absurd. I just finished listening to Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken and we have to make our governments do better

[@ashthegreat1]

Govts are all corrupt and wont do shit. The only solution is to grow your own… oh wait you cant, cause youve paved over and built stripmalls and McMansions on all your fertile land.

[@EnterTheFenix]

Even in Aus, the cheap NZ dairy products are costing you 50% less than they cost us here in NZ

[@MrNetAble]

@@EnterTheFenix Yeah, koz 300 NZ farmers have to financially support 3000 NZ gov. officials, cultural identity, hopeless tourism adds around the world, etc .

[@chrisblockley5783]

Yes, it's utter bs - Nz dairy produce and fruit are cheaper in Oz than here.

[@ademariojunior]

Amazing report! So reasonable, so thoughtful, everything just makes sense. I hope it can strum the chords of public opinion in New Zealand.

[@aussiebushhomestead3223]

I believe the same problem exists in Australia. It used to be cheaper to buy ingredients and make your own healthy food, but not anymore. The systems need to change, but they won't. European farms are being shut down or destocked, which can only mean that NZ and Australia will continue to be the food bowl for those who will never have to go without, so exports will continue. Long live the farmers market...until they stop them too.

[@jeffreystorer4966]

W Australian government are shutting down live sheep exports,and worth looking into Dutch farmers plight,it's a war on food and the people who grow it , our sheep prices have halved already

[@Rosesraspberries72]

@@jeffreystorer4966yes I just made a comment about what’s going on in west Aus…I’ve been telling as many farmers as I can that they now more than ever need to come together to make a stand..,and now this BS “ voice” will be another destroyer.

[@jeffreystorer4966]

@@Rosesraspberries72 yes it's already started banning live sheep exports , deprived the sheep of a cruise before dinner,and now anyone with more than a quarter acre, needs permission to do anything on their own land , this country has already gone to the dog's

[@missinterpreted4923]

'They' are trying to shut down farming in Australia and NZ as well. The government want us dependent on processed food made by the multi-national corporations in factories with all sorts of added poisons that are detrimental to good health, then the pharmaceutical companies step in with ineffective drugs that cause more harm than good. They want us sick, poor, and dependent.

[@davidboskett5581]

@@jeffreystorer4966 The loss of the live sheep export market has nothing to do with the price of sheep meat in Australia.

[@Intergalatikk]

I remember a few years back that a Maori man with prior convictions was arrested for fishing without a license so he could feed his family. At the time - a group of young white teens in Auckland were caught after a house robbing spree, stealing over 80k worth of possessions just for the “thrill of it". Guess who got locked up..

[@dxfifa]

This is completely irrelevant to the video but okay

[@Intergalatikk]

@@dxfifa It’s an example of how some Kiwis have lost access to natural food sources

[@Mahia965]

"Change the system!!" So true, so sad, all real. Also so positive. Ultimately, a great Film. Thank you for posting.

[@NZFORESTPRO]

It's not just food it's banks' railways power companies, and everything the country don't want new zealand to be self sufficient and we were one of the only country's in the world capable of being able to make it work with out ever worrying about any help from any other country in the world.

[@eileenrussell1550]

You are so right. We were pretty self-sufficient because we were geographically isolated. That is why we were so well-known for our kiwi ingenuity and innovation. We had to be and were the better for it. Our manufacturers and what we could do with so little from the outside world we were top class.

[@johnsutcliffe3209]

Everything the government is involved in turns to shit

[@GaryGraham-sx4pm]

import tariffs. if it could be made or grown in new zealand then the same thing imported would attract a tariff. so buyers would buy local and new zealand's economy flourished. then along came roger douglas and philip burdon and new zealand production and manufacturing collapsed because roger and philip had shares in shipping companies. new zealand simply needs to reimpose import tariffs.

[@missinterpreted4923]

I only buy fish that is wild caught in Australia or NZ - Between NZ and Australia, we don't need to import any food - feed ourselves first and export any excess! Stop eating processed food - that what causes the negative health outcomes. Love from Australia!

[@MikeBalk]

this has to be a top priority for New Zealand. ka pai! Keep it local. It happens in New York but not here?

[@zephheine9681]

yes very sad what we end up with and the prices ..really pissed now watching this😢

[@kdegraa]

It’s a plantation system oriented for export while local people live on imported food. A similar system was set up in Ireland when it was run by British. Food grown in Ireland was exported and Irish had to rely on potatoes. It did not end well. Food labelled as from New Zealand has a bad reputation in Australia. There have been too many stories of food from other countries imported into New Zealand, packaged there and then exported.

[@cbisme6414]

Yes, frozen vegetables by one brand in particular. I refuse to buy anything of theirs since finding out.

[@helentaylor5078]

So true, it goes on in in NZ too except it wine imported from Australia and bottled here under our label and sold in our supermarkets to the minions. Check the labels folks. Lawful but is it ethical. Food for thought.

[@MrScrofulous]

I visited NZ recently and was quite surprised at the cost of food in shops. It was quite expensive.

[@johnsutcliffe3209]

Where are you from?

[@MrScrofulous]

@@johnsutcliffe3209 I live at Kingscliff in Northern NSW. I stayed at Taupo and Rotorua.

[@johnsutcliffe3209]

@@MrScrofulous thanks. Yes its become quite expensive to live here.

[@NZFORESTPRO]

Give every household a plot to raise their own garden beds if the amount of pine trees they planted was orchards it would stop world hunger and create more jobs for even school kids never lonely homeless you don't need nzqa to plant an grow fresh produce

[@tindog999]

Well said Mate. That would be too easy for the Govt to do. They wouldn't do it because of health and safety and all the other regulations.

[@MrWillt100]

Profits and greed go hand in hand and not caring about the lesser off within the community shows what society is breeding. Uncaring me me people who are constantly patting themselves on their back for the amount of wealth and asset gains they are able to accumulate is on the ups. The 80/20 rule is now the 95/5 rule.

[@mvb88]

Main issue is. With rising cost of running a business. Farmer's etc need to find people who will pay them enough to cover the cost of running the business. Inflation and increased regulations add to the running cost. So if we won't pay the business owner enough to keep the business open. The owner will find someone who will. So it's hard. Do they feed new Zealanders and put themselves out of business, or do they sell overseas and earn enough to pay power, labor, fuel, tax etc.

[@melissahoet7974]

It's a socialist/ communist ideology that has got us here. Decades of it

[@tslee8236]

Always blaming greed. 😢 Look after yourself. Don't rely on the charity of others.

[@davidboskett5581]

I always use the 80/20 rule to define everything in life and that shows that 80% of the population are basically stupid .Nobody in NZ needs to be poor if they understand capitalism and how it works and have a basic education

[@tempusfugit7662]

We have similar problems in Australia - we should be able to feed ourselves cheaply many times over, yet groceries are so dear and the best fod seems to be exported. Globalisation, pure evil.

[@patronsclub7380]

Why is our media, politicians, government not making this top priority for us kiwis!!!!! Makes me angry all these made up rules depriving us locals of our own food that is nz grown!!! Enough is enough time to unite whanau time to make change!!! Time to question those who block us from our own food!!!! Iykyk

[@Westmansouth]

Dear god please keep publishing these articles. These are the things that matter.

[@kristianmorris9738]

The potato famine ravaged the Irish because land owners made more money selling food to the English than selling it to their own people. An extreme analogy but one that seems appropriate here..

[@philmusson1265]

New Zealand has always been a country where you had to know someone who hunts, fishes or grows but as a chef in Christchurch I was constantly frustrated by the wholesalers variety and quality. I could find better produce walking home from work.

[@solarwind1469]

If our politicians had half the sense of this lady, we wouldn't be in the mess we are currently in. Thank goodness there are still level headed people out there - and thank you nzherald for airing these views.

[@colinmeehan791]

Pollies are lining thier pockets,all sides.

[@lovetruth5518]

When I was in New Zealand for a holiday, grate food in cafes, TOPS ACTUALLY. But the supermarkets were not so good, very expensive and the vegetables didn’t look fresh to me.

[@shanemorrison9002]

Covid exposed the potential of NZ to self sustain.The food we produce and export is the key to our survival, What good is having all the financial, Science and technological Advances to feed the mind when you can't sustain the body? They say we need the World to survive Why?The geographical isolation of NZ is ideal.Everything we need to Survive we already have, Kiwis are an enterprising Culture with a strong sense of self sufficiency. And Identity.Coutries like ours don't need the World,its the other way around.

[@KiwiKaosAgent]

Yep, can't afford the meat, can't afford the eggs, can't afford the cheese, barely afford the veges and fruit. We require mandatory percentages to be set for domestic supply to drive down our prices. If these are imposed at a level sufficient to more than meet our needs we can start to afford to eat well again.

[@metanoian965]

NZ needs another committee of committed obese no hopers like that last Govt start up which has vanished behind a pay wall at NZ tax payers expense. Keep on keeping the business Org. running the Consumer Board and see the changes made daily. Keeping prices nice and stable as they rise all the way to the Banks.

[@jimtakahashi4638]

[@mvb88]

Issue you have is for most farm owners (from dairy to vegetables) have a lot of regulations to follow. Those add to the cost. The price you see in the supermarket is all those cost. Add inflation and running cost. If the farmer sells cheaper to make you happy. They go out of business. Meaning you have to come in and buy the land. I've got a gut feeling that you don't have a few million to buy the land etc. So either go to the government and stop them imposing more regulations or just pay the price.

[@tslee8236]

Got too used to city life? Only buying from the supermarkets? Try to source directly from the producers. Know where your food comes from. Support the local farmers.

[@superfly7160]

That's why I live in OZ so I can afford it😜

[@michaelatkinson5681]

What a crazy world we live in. I can’t believe we can’t just feed ourselves first the export the surplus. We are paying for for inferior quality food being shipped into the country. If we consumed our own food we would pay so much less than what we are charged in the supermarkets.

[@davidboskett5581]

You obviously are not very well educated and need to study economics. We produce food in order to sell overseas and this allows us to import cheap goods from overseas

[@theflamingone8729]

It's the same as how spend most of our time working to get money, and have only a fraction of time to work on our own projects.

[@craigsymington5401]

Getting worse, time for change.

[@garrieclark24]

It been happening for decades,sad for us....

[@FrightF]

Growing plants are for feeding the food we have eaten for 700,000 years (Neanderthal) and that is animals. If you look up Egyptians, they had a rich agricultural system for growing plants. This eating of plants lead to disease and health issues such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity and everything. These are depicted in original drawings btw. Egyptians is where Dentistry was developed also. Grow you plants for multi-gastros/ruminants so we can all eat real food. And so we can live a Proper human diet.

[@MeBeingAble]

Lol decades late. I used to pack asparagus. It ALL went to japan. Ive been in Aus for 22yrs now. And before I left NZ most fruit went overseas too. For at the time my husband worked with beef, the bulk of it went to England

[@pita3908]

so why is food so expensive? NZ needs to start focusing on its ppl, stop exporting the quality food and stop importing other country crappy products.

[@tslee8236]

Tax exports.

[@jasonfox6013]

What ever happened to the backyard gardens we mostly had when we were children

[@reddog7024]

Great show I am originally from Southland now have a farm business making chilli sauce. Australia is probably worse than New Zealand in relation to food security. Same problems here. It good to see you still have real farmers markets. I used to do them in Brisbane very hard to compete against Mexico, Indonesia China and weirdly New Zealand yep you export Black Angus beef to a country that is chok full of cows because you have already worked it out it is cheaper

[@Rosesraspberries72]

Same crap is happening here in Australia, stopping live sheep trade and now this new “ voice” that is the very essence of ripping us blind. We all have to make a stand and push back…we are not their puppets to play around with.

[@v.sandrone4268]

So you having a voice in Australia is OK but not indigenous people? you do know that you are making this comment on a video about New Zealand, a country that has a treaty with Maori but don't think Australia's indigenous people don't deserve a voice......what irony.

[@digbypowell6208]

Yeah for most Kiwis to get yah hands on mutton chops , it’s impossible, shouldn’t be like that , spread the word, bring back the mutton

[@asherfrench7092]

Bravo, more of this please

[@Ronny.81]

Said it before to people, i can't understand why New Zealand produce is cheaper overseas.fair enough theres more competition ,but if its done overseas then it can be done here.

[@bevkipa7889]

Yeah for sure Our best stuff goes overseas & Yet we pay unreal prices for our second s. A lot of us can't even afford fruit,let alone fresh veggies & meat. Government doesn't give a shit about us at the bottom

[@truenorth111]

We need roofed farmers markets that run 5 days a week for a few hours. Why are the councils not providing this space?

[@PeterTodd]

You can imagine the stink that the chain supermarkets would kick up if this was allowed : /

[@bluesage1528]

Great video. I did not realise what has been happening. But surprisngly... or not, this is EXACTLY what US farmers say. This begs the question - who created this system - globally? who benefits from this nonsesne? how to take power in our own hands?

[@louise9973]

People time to come together and change laws by petition and pressure. We blindly follow in America's footsteps.

[@marcianmoon6143]

the same in Australia, we only see 3 species of fish on the shelves most of the time , and prices are not cheap either. we have free gas in australia but we have to pay huge $$ because most of it gets exported. even for cars its no longer economical to use LPG

[@hmp3885]

NZders could be one of the healthiest and wealthiest people's in the world yet here we are continuously going backwards. Our government's have alot to answer for.

[@Adam-fj6ls]

It's the same in Australia. Our fruit from the supermarket is horrible and the meat we get here is imported garbage or insanely expensive. As for fish, forget about it. Fish is an occasional food group when your prepared to pony up a lit more than your comfortable spending on 1 meal.

[@denisenewz]

Fantastic, thanks for this. A simple question for why we don't serve NZers first.

[@keakiwi1]

Where are our politicians? Export lamb was cheaper in Singapore, Orchard Road, when I was living there, lamb in NZ was second grade. It’s time we looked at what we are exporting and why do we have people unable to access food from the land or sea. Our export quotas need to change to advantage New Zealanders not those overseas. Politicians need to support our farmers not blame them for everything. No farms no food.

[@zoddsonofthor5576]

same in Australia the ag business only sell garbage quality to the locals at over inflated prices while selling the largest and best portion overseas.

[@austinbrown275]

Totally agree.

[@lehonidus]

Great vid. My local vege shop grows all their own veges. Way fresher than supermarket and the milk they sell is 1-2$ cheaper than the supermarkets too!

[@kicknitoldskool]

I wonder if we still have Skip Bins outside Supermarkets full of perfectly good food, I haven't checked lately. Supermarkets tend to find it's better to price most people out of good food then chuck what they couldn't sell at a ludicrously high price to the dump. Sell a fraction of newer stuff the following day, rinse, repeat $5 a loaf of bread sell half of it then chuck the other half out. Give Kai Bosh a small portion to save face and call it a day.

[@cococharliematenga4829]

To eat healthy is expensive these days. Only need to drive past the typical takeaway shop and see the cheap and unhealthy meals at $20-$30 which can feed a family of 5. Plenty of those in South Auckland (Mangere, Otara, Otahuhu, Papatoetoe). When you're on a tight budget, from a low socio economic area, often how much you got in left your wallet will dictate how you eat and unfortunately the reality is many people will take that easy and less expensive option. That then leads to what the professor here was saying, heart disease, diabetes etc.. Such a vicious cycle.

[@Vexarax]

you can purchase healthy food for a family of 5 for $20-30. A frozen chicken for like $12 (or mince for even less), bag of spuds for $6 that will do multiple meals, frozen veg ie peas, corn, green beans etc (which also will do multiple meals). Pasta is cheap and you can buy a couple of cans of tomato with garlic or basil in for about 5 bucks, mix with a couple of cans of tuna and some frozen peas or whatever. Kidney beans are cheap and you can mix them through mince with a can of tomatoes and some frozen veg, then have that with rice or pasta. There are much more economical ways to spend your money than on takeaways my friend!! (I'm on the poverty line myself and takeaways are miles out of our budget except for a very special treat. Food should be cheaper here for sure, but it's much cheaper to buy a weeks worth of healthier groceries than buying takeaways each night) edit: you can also buy 6 frozen pastry sheets for like 6 bucks. that does 3 large pies! you make mince with a can of tomatoes and some frozen veg or whatever, and make a pie out of that using 2 of the pastry sheets. I make it in a large cast iron pan I have, which feeds up to 5 people. do that with some spuds and you've got an amazing meal for a pile of people that works out to about $12 tops, and you have extra ingredients left to do it all again twice more. you can also buy chicken breasts for like 8 bucks and make a sauce using a packet of maggi creme of chicken soup and water with some flour. that makes a super tasty chicken pie using the same pastry sheets :) edit 2: heck even a pack of 6 frozen crumbed hoki fillets (around $8-12). bake your own chips or buy a frozen bag for like $4. have that with some frozen peas and corn. You've just fed 5 people for under 20 dollars!

[@khzn9309]

Having a garden helps a great deal as well makes one more connected and affectionate too their land and environment which is definitey rewarding especially at the dinner table 🥑🍉🍊🥝

[@lynt4890]

They seem to be able to afford buckets of KFC, if you can afford that you can afford to eat more healthily and make better choices.

[@Vexarax]

@@khzn9309 a lot of people don’t realise the work and dedication required to maintain a large garden with enough food to feed multiple people. Same with chooks. My mum has a garden and chooks, but the garden work alone is many, many hours of labour for just enough vegetables for her which she tries to share with us. Fortunately she has a friend who is on a fixed income, so he has many hours every day to dedicate to a huge garden he maintains. He has even hooked up lights to grow big crops in his shed. He grows marrows, tomatoes, pumpkins, potatoes, carrots, cabbages, yams. It’s a huge labour and took years to fully establish, but it means he eats very well, and he also shares with us, but so many people assume you just stick seeds in the ground and you’ll end up with a huge crop to feed a whole family. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that in todays busy world. A much more economical way to have vegetables if you don’t have the time or skills to maintain a huge garden, is to buy frozen veg! What many don’t realise is it’s actually fresher than “fresh” vegetables from the store, because “fresh” veg is usually picked early, artificially ripened, remains in transit for ages then sits on the store shelf for ages. Whereas frozen veg is ripened prior to picking (so retains a lot more nutrients) and frozen immediately!! And they’re so much cheaper especially if you’re trying to feed a family. Lightly steam the veg so they stay bright in colour (or mix them into mince or a stir fry), and roast or boil some spuds (which you can still get for cheap if you buy Odd Bunch or the cheap Pack’n’save brand), or make your own chips by slicing them thin and baking them, and pair that with some mince, or kidney beans, or heck some rice with cheap ham chopped in it if you’re having a tight day financially. Or make it all into a stir fry! Food prices are going up everywhere but we are super lucky imo to have access to cheap frozen veg grown in NZ so it’s not all GM and messed up like the Monsanto American crops!! Some cheap things I rely on: Frozen veg of all kinds Rice (brown rice is more nutrient dense if you like the taste) Canned Kidney Beans/chick peas etc Chicken breasts (especially if you get them on clearance) Frozen whole chicken (which I stuff to make it go further) Mince Cans of tomatoes Soy sauce or Maggi soup mixes for flavouring Frozen pastry sheets to make big pies Those are some examples of cheap things that can go far!! Even better if you’re close to a supermarket so can buy clearance stuff close to its Use By date (Sorry I went off topic, I was just trying to say that maintaining a garden with enough food for a family takes a long time to establish, and a lot of time and dedication to maintain. Though I agree it would be great if everyone had the skills and space and time to be able to do that!)

[@tslee8236]

Cook your own food. It will be less expensive, especially if your labour is cheap.

[@crankybanshee3809]

Plans are already afoot to strangle farmers markets in Oz - a tracking system "for our safety" which will require all produce sellers to be licenced and inspected annually, a hefty financial burden for small producers. The reasoning given is to be able to quickly trace back outbreaks such as the loose leaf lettuce problem a few years ago and the frozen berries problems before that. Note that those incidents all involved large-scale producers and/or imported product. Sadly, our friends across the ditch should expect this policy to be imported in the not too distant future.

[@johncurtis4643]

Too much red tape, too many middle people , this is what happens.

[@bushmanphotos]

nope just greed that's all

[@96Caleb96]

NZHerald is the best!

[@Al-oe8ib]

90 percent of our fishing quota is now owned by 4 companies……the reality of this is that a few thousand shareholders benefit while the rest have fish limits reduced and fishing areas removed. These fish are the property of all kiwis, but successive governments protect commercial interests for political donors

[@chrisnewman7281]

New Zealand could do with having a food reserve that they’re sufficient food available for its populous. Some parts of Australia have a reserve on cars for the same reason.

[@alexshaykevich509]

Very important topic but disappointed at the lack of interviews with industry exporters and government. As long as the economics favours export, nothing will really change.

[@h-aden8402]

Great piece of journalism

[@Matt-Qodeshiym-talk]

The government will one day regulate the farmers markets until it is no longer accessible to the people. I enjoyed this video, thank you for sharing 👍

[@PaulEglinton]

If the 4.8 million say no to out dated systems, govt can't do anything about it. The people have the power to create new systems. Don't ask permission, just do it. The middle people clipping the ticket, in all the transactions, are quite happy with the current system. They are not motivated to change anything.

[@Brittleighlee]

Awesome work NZ Herald

[@cnrmcdonnell]

Should be an easy fix for the government say no more than 80% exported and the other 20% domestic use only with a lower no competitive international price tag.

[@growtocycle6992]

I agree to an extent, but strangely export markets are commonly like this. It goes the other way too, we get better Florida oranges and Ecuadorian bananas, for example... To export them overseas, thru have to be without blemish. If one rots in transit, they all could get chucked out, so exports are always high quality... But we need better regulations, to keep prices in check for exported products, like milk... Fonterra is a baron, in the worst possible way....

[@w.murphy5151]

I heard somewhere that NZ producers enough food to feed 60 million people, yet children go hungry in this country

[@pmvcallan]

Countries really need to implement a local quota systems, that blocks export until the local quota is met. Sure its a bit more work for port workers, but if quota isn't met loading must be refused. Force them to dump on the local market first then they can export, and ensure local consumers get full access to the quality range rather than dregs. I noticed in Australia, kiwifruit they get are far higher quality than ones I could find in New Zealand. Go to a super market in NZ, and you get the rubbish crap quality ones, most the time bruised or defective in some way. In Australia? all uniform, picture perfect, fresh stuff. And Cheaper.

[@sueelliott4793]

Very good. ngā mihi, NZ Herald.

[@nlknrf233]

Yeah, I once go to buy fresh shrimps in a seafood store and all they have is a frozen one. WTH for an island country.

[@ajdesigns6979]

this has pissed me off for years !

[@vinniebarbarino-1]

Very informative, I was in Ozzy last week, and 1kg block of NZ cheese was $6, but in our local here was $15 to $20 .... what's going on ???

[@schuma61]

When I was in NZ on holiday I was expecting to buy the best lamb meat in the supermarket, instead, I was only able to buy overpriced, what we buy here in Australia as dog meat.

[@Hup-x1y]

The sooner the return of common law The faster the exit of corporate law GLOBALLY🎉

[@bevkipa7889]

It also costs to put a garden in & maintain it. Also where I live no dirt.jst clay.

[@rogeratkinson7209]

Here ,here. I am a farmer and completely agree.

[@maiki-charlottelee1971]

Thank you for finally putting out a good story, never mind the rubbish headlines

[@96Caleb96]

Cauliflower $8 the last i saw in the supermarket lol, glad i hardly ever need to buy veges.

[@Vexarax]

it's cheaper (and actually fresher) to buy it frozen :)

[@khzn9309]

Mate have you seen the price of eggs these days absolute highway robbery how rediculous

[@96Caleb96]

@@Vexarax That's good to know, thanks :)

[@Vexarax]

@@96Caleb96 yep and there’s a HUGE difference. “Fresh” vegetables are picked early and artificially ripened, then they’re stored in transit, then on the shelf for ages with people breathing over them and fondling them, and they’re expensive!! Frozen veg are ripened naturally, then picked and frozen quite quickly so they retain more nutrients. And they’re cheaper and you can keep them in your freezer so you’re not having to rush to finish a whole cauliflower or whatever before it goes off!!! I buy a bag of frozen cauliflower for between $3.50-$6 depending on the size of the bag. I lightly steam however much I want to use, then eat it like that or mix it into a stir fry, or fry it to have alongside mince or whatever. There’s heaps you can do with it!! Same with all frozen veg. You’re technically getting a superior product for cheaper! (Unless you can go to a farmers market and get vegetables grown by locals of course - those are the freshest and healthiest - but we can’t all access that sort of thing!) :) Edit: I also add frozen vegetables to mince along with a can of kidney beans or mixed beans and a can of tomatoes. I can turn half of a $8 pack of mince into a huge meal for up to 5 people doing that, cooked with rice or pasta or potatoes (all cheap!). Or I make it into a Shepards pie or whatever :D The frozen veges can bulk out many different meals doing it that way! And no rush to finish them because you just stick the rest of the bag back in the freezer :D

[@donbrashsux]

Next there will be a people revolt .. just crazy that food is sooo expensive

[@davidlee7174]

existing redtape system, so that the rich get richer.

[@khzn9309]

Yes with certain MPs having shares here there and everywhere in the NZ share market etc

[@tribalwar9971]

Big companies like making big money from New Zealanders Labour should end these farmers market shananagens

[@queenabove18]

480p? Jesus, what is this, 2003?

[@annikafunnell8982]

More of this kind of content please.

[@sallykemp1427]

Looks like it! As it’s mainly going for export. It’s always been like that. With everything. NZ gets the left over.

[@andyjordan7542]

Brilliant push really hard to turn this around

[@aniawalczak1168]

Quite interesting where the food goes? Also seems the middle people are the ones that benefit here most.

[@Belzrox]

Its a disgrace! I see that clown of a PM has just signed off on free trade agreement with the EU - free for whom? Not Kiwis...

[@spudpud-T67]

Health and safety regs are great at keeping us unwell and hungry.

[@sylviaalger4917]

The answer is never more government. …it’s less regulation.

[@blablabla2616]

Yes !! Problems across the board is this theres to much rulz and regulations !

[@ananamu2248]

I'd like to see more of these kinds of vids . .. I want to hear more about new nz new projects recycling,innovations

[@new.Creation.In.Christ]

Change the system that is not for the people, she's 100% bang on!! Our future is looking worse if we dont do something to change it. No more being told or forced its time we decide what's best for us!

[@ianmcmanus3078]

Now we know the problem, what can we do about it? The New Zealand government needs to step in and ensure that the products are cheaper than they are in any other country. How can that be once freight and other charges are included? Is this the greed of the food producers being stronger than the importance of population health and well-being?

[@downtoearth1950]

Here in Australia the majority of people can not afford to eat lamb or beef, even our old sheep 'Mutton', goes overseas as live exports to the middle east😢

[@falseprofit4u]

The same applies to natural resources like gas and iron ore here in Australia too. There's no quota laws for domestic consumption, and we can not get prime produce at any price.

[@cbisme6414]

I have to differ on that, in Western Australia the government did do quota laws for natural gas to West Australians.

[@ancientnpc]

Jacinda Ardern, a woman who has the body of a child who died in the Irish potato famine and the face of a woman who survived it (cheers to whoever wrote that). She doomed your nation fellas.

[@scotthamilton7327]

We literally had Fonterra double the price of dairy products overnight, their reason was 'we can get this price overseas, so you pay it or it goes elsewhere'. Yet when there is a downturn in oversea prices we are expected to continue paying these prices to keep the farmers going in bad times, yet it is only Fonterra that actually benefits. New Zealand has become a country that disgusts me, the government that is supposedly there for the people no longer cares about their people. If you still believe your government has your best interests at heart, you are a fool.