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Being holistic is not wholesome

OPINION: There is one word that greenies love to use - 'holistic.'

Forget Greta!

OPINION: There was a lot of gnashing of teeth, wailing and tears (including our PM) when celebrity teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has a crack at NZ's efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

OPINION: The Hound wonders when the powers-that-be will take a serious look at how their infatuation with pleasing the UN and implementing crazy policies to mitigate (not reduce) the country's carbon footprint is doing severe damage to our economy.

Woke joke!

OPINION: Speaking of wasting taxpayer money, your canine crusader almost choked on his dog tucker when he read a recent report by the NZ Taxpayers Union on spending by the Health Research Council.

Value for money?

OPINION: Your old mate is always sceptical about claims made by government, especially when it comes to spending our money and the value of said spending.

Editorial: Upton was right

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton.

OPINION: The infallibility of Overseer – the tool farmers have been required to use to measure nutrient loss – has come crashing down following a report by a special science advisory panel.

Positive vibe

Experienced trade negotiator Charles Finny believes reports relating to a free trade agreement with the UK are positive.

Meat women discuss sector challenges

Speaker line up: Kristin Akehurst, Sarah Brown, Nicola Johnston, Meka Whaitiri and Sirma Karapeeva.

Fifty women from NZ’s meat sector came together at last month’s Red Meat Sector Conference to discuss how to support more women into the sector.

Conference focuses on future

MIA chairman John Loughlin spoke of the new wave of collaboration in the sector.

Last month's Red Meat Sector Conference was very much orientated to looking to the future - especially in the new pandemic environment.

NZ/UK FTA there for the taking

Lockwood Smith says if the Government is unable to do a FTA deal with the UK it would be a massive failure on its part.

New Zealand's former Trade Minister and High Commissioner to London, Sir Lockwood Smith, says a free trade agreement (FTA) with the UK is there for the taking.