My day of meat: A vegetarian goes to butcher bootcamp

Our usually meat-eschewing food editor proves she’s got the chops for the job by getting acquainted with some dead animals.  People often presume that because I don’t eat meat, the thought of others eating it must horrify me. Anything from munching a ham sandwich in my presence to simply mentioning the nice steak they had … Read more

At NZ’s premier event on alternative proteins, where were the vegan voices?

The Vegan Society’s Claire Insley went along to ProteinTECH 2018 last week and left confident that a plant-based future was closer than we think, despite the day’s lunch offering leaving a lot to be desired.  Investors look to whatever’s new and sexy, and right now plant-based proteins are the future. At last week’s ProteinTECH Conference … Read more

Why there’s no rural-urban divide when it comes to caring about our environment

Beef + Lamb New Zealand says farmers care just as much about the environment as everyone else, and with its new Environment Strategy and Implementation plan, it plans to help sheep and beef farmers promote reduced carbon emissions, cleaner water, thriving biodiversity, and healthy productive soils.  I recently spoke at a farmer’s event in Christchurch with … Read more