If there was a disaster next week, where would you go for food?
The Spinoff Daily, Wednesday March 20
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Today on The Spinoff: Rawiri Waititi’s member’s bill to remove GST from food, what cutting disability support funding means for carers and a thank you letter to Wellington’s independent hearings panel.
“Last year’s cataclysmic rain wasn’t the first time New Zealand’s food security has been threatened by devastating events. In the last 15 years, the Canterbury and Kaikoura earthquakes, Covid, and floods in Ashburton and the West Coast have all impacted food supplies – and highlighted the urgent need for better food security policy.
‘Let’s put it this way,’ says Jo Fountain, who has researched the response to the Kaikōura earthquake. ‘If all the roads to your town were cut tomorrow, where would you go for food?’”
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