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OPINION: Was the ASB Economic Weekly throwing shade on Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr when reporting on his speech in Washington recently?
OPINION: This old mutt hears that international meal delivery giant HelloFresh has been accused of using coconut milk obtained using 'forced monkey labour' in Thailand.
An investigation by PETA revealed that the animals are chained, whipped, beaten and forced to spend long hours picking coconuts.
PETA cites animal abuse at 57 coconut processing operations in nine provinces of Thailand.
The organisation has called for a boycott of the meal-delivery service until it adopts 'more ethical' sourcing practices.
HelloFresh operates in a number of countries around the world - including New Zealand.
Last year, HelloFresh delivered almost 1 billion meals and reached 7.2 milllion active customers.
However, in a statement to FMCG, the company claims it has received "written confirmation" from all its suppliers that they do not obtain coconut milk from slave monkeys.
The New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards has added ASB Bank to its national sponsor family.
The quest to measure, report and make sense of the energy that goes into food production has come a long way in the past 25 years.
Animal disease management agency OSPRI has announced sweeping governance changes as it seeks to recover from the expensive failure of a major software project.
Driving down Broadlands Road, northeast of Taupo there's a cluster of 19 Pāmu dairy farms around what is known as the Wairakei Estate.
Organics Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) says the Government’s new gene editing and genetic modification reforms could leave New Zealand as an outlier on the global stage.
Weaker milk production in the Northern Hemisphere is keeping dairy prices high.
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