{"id":792,"date":"2008-04-30T08:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T08:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2008-04-30T08:15:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T08:15:29","slug":"food-prices-and-nz-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Food Prices and NZ Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a global food shortage right now. A bunch of reasons, many of which were discussed here in a Nov 07 Guardian article<\/a> – according to a UN statement at that time, the shortage is due to oil price increases, demand for biofuels, weather effects and increased demand from India and China.
\nIt’s an election year in New Zealand, and there’s definitely a mood for change – a fourth 3-year term with Labour leading the government has never been likely. The food shortage here is being framed as a domestic issue as much, if not more, than a global one – Labour is failing to keep the price of cheese to an acceptable level!
\nWhat I want to know, and have been unable to discern, is how the specific NZ situation relates to the global situation. Does our government bear some responsibility for the food price increases here? If so, what aspects, and how do they interact with the global environment?
\nI’m genuinely asking, because I genuinely don’t know and this seems pretty important to me. Maybe there has been media discussion of this very topic – but if so, I haven’t seen it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a global food shortage right now. A bunch of reasons, many of which were discussed here in a Nov 07 Guardian article – according to a UN statement at that time, the shortage is due to oil price increases, demand for biofuels, weather effects and increased demand from India and China. It’s an election … Continue reading Food Prices and NZ Politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-cM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}