Tuesday, 11 December 2012 15:21

Strange bedfellows

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IT SEEMS the good folk at Soil & Health and Organic NZ are now avid royalists. 

After the recent royal visitors Prince Charles and Camilla departed these shores, a media release claimed Soil &Health is an “advocate for New Zealanders to have access to food fit for royalty”.  Your old mate had to have a bit of a giggle at the thought of the wooden bicycle riders and alternatives of the organic sector – more associated with being anti-establishment – as a bunch of pro-monarchy supporters. 

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