[NV Greens] Fw: Big Gold Star for New Zealand's Green Party

[Barb Ewing]

>
>
> ----------
> From: Solari Action Network <info at solari.com>
> Reply-To: Solari Action Network <info at solari.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:41:05 -0700
> To: Solari Action Network <info at solari.com>
> Subject: Big Gold Star for New Zealand's Green Party
>
>
> The following is an email sent to you by an administrator of "Solari 
> Action
> Network". If this message is spam, contains abusive or other comments you
> find offensive please contact the webmaster of the board at the following
> address:
>
> Solari Action Network <info at solari.com>
>
> Include this full email (particularly the headers).
>
> Message sent to you follows:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> TO THE SOLARI ACTION NETWORK
> October 18, 2005
>
> Note from Catherine:
>
> Who's your farmer? We need local farmers and local harvests of fresh food
> feeding kids -- not large corporations with processed foods.
>
> School purchases are big money -- funded with citizen dollars Are the
> schools in your area supporting fresh food and local farmers?
>
> Or is your money funding large corporations with processed food that is
> slowing poisening our bodies in ways that have hidden costs to all of us?
>
> Getting your local schools and institutions to buy fresh and buy local is
> one "government reenegineering" that can save life, save minds and save
> money.
>
> FROM SCOOP MEDIA
> Wellington, New Zealand
>
> Days of junk food in schools numbered
> Tuesday, 18 October 2005
> Press Release: Green Party
> 18 October 2005
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0510/S00093.htm
>
> Excerpt:
>
> New Zealand will finally tackle one of the most important health issues of
> our time -getting junk food out of schools and improving the nutrition and
> health of the next generation, Green Party Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley
> says.
>
> The Greens have secured an agreement to work with the government on a 
> range
> of initiatives to improve New Zealand's nutrition and food environment. 
> They
> will be fully involved in developing policy and legislation in these 
> areas,
> and the government has agreed to allocate funding.
>
> The proposals include a Nutrition Fund to pay for initiatives aimed at
> creating a healthy eating environment, developing healthy eating policy 
> and
> guidelines for schools, a traffic light labelling system to enable 
> consumers
> to quickly identify healthy food, publishing an annual Children's Food
> Promotion plan that sets out how the Health Ministry intends to develop an
> environment that encourages children to make healthy eating choices.
>
>