Visit Temuka Telegraph’s Facebook page October 2019 | The Temuka Telegraph | 1 COMPLIMENTARY MONTHLY PUBLICATION YOUR NEWS | YOUR COMMUNITY OCTOBER 2019 Temuka Primary School Spring Fair - September 7th O’Reilly vs Falloon - inaugural ‘race’ around the schools new bike track photograph: Rose Austen-Falloon Consider Your Options When the time comes to make decisions regarding the final care and celebration of life for yourself or a loved one, reach out to us. Funeral Services 0800 686 2148 [email protected] www.aoraki.kiwi.nz SOUTH CANTERBURY 2 | The Temuka Telegraph | October 2019 www.temukatelegraph.co.nz from our MP’s desk... Where’s the BEEF ? We are in Temuka every Tuesday Andrew Falloon, Rangitata MP Call Chris Jones or Quentin Hix About four years ago, well before I became an MP, I found myself (Temuka locals who understand the community) dining at a table that included filmmaker James Cameron. 0800 QUENTIN / 03 687 9010 Although well known for his blockbusters Titanic and the Terminator, the conversation eventually swung around to farming. www.quentinhix.co.nz Explaining his love for the Wairarapa where he now spends much of his time, he talked of the several thousand hectares he was in the process of converting to fruit, nuts and vegetables. In the years since Mr Cameron has gone further. From a perfectly Central Podiatry Limited Central Podiatry Limited reasonable position of advancing the vegan cause on his own property, he’s now looking to enforce it nationwide. At a conference organised by the Government in Taranaki NathanNathan Dickson/ Dickson/ Louise Aubrey Louise recently, Aubrey Cameron likened our love of meat and dairy to an “illness or condition that has to be treated,” and called on farmers to shift to plant-based protein and milk. Quality treatment of all foot Which all sounds nice until you consider the impact that would Quality treatmenthave, of particularly all foot in areas like South Canterbury. Three quarters and lower limb conditions of New Zealand’s total goods exports come from agriculture. and lower limbTens conditions of thousands of New Zealanders are employed directly Bookings Ph: 03 683 1122 by the sector, and many hundreds of thousands more jobs are created on the back of it. Clinic at Temuka Healthcare Our farmers produce enough food to feed 40 million people worldwide. To simply throw all that out the window would be 104 King StreetBookings Temuka Ph: 03 683 potentially1122 devastating, and if that food production was exported to less efficient farmers, work against the very environmental Clinic at Temuka Healthcareconcerns he claims to be motivated by. Nobody disputes that consumer choices are changing. More 104 King Street Temukapeople are becoming vegan, vegetarian, or the new one I heard recently: “flexitarian.” Apply for the New products are on the market. Quorn, a fermented fungus that apparently resembles chicken. Andrew Falloon MP Leafu, a concentrated form of protein commonly made from stinging nettles. STEM Scholarship And of course the Impossible Burger, a plant-based product all the rage around the world right now. Some have heralded that the end of meat is nigh, but such Open to anyone studying Science, Technology, concern is overblown. With worldwide average incomes growing Engineering, or Mathematics at a tertiary it’s estimated that the middle class will number 5 billion people institution next year who attends or has been to by 2030, up from 1.8 billion in 2009. high school in the Rangitata Electorate. More protein will be needed to satisfy those growing wallets, and Send a 500 word essay on “How Science, for some that will mean plant-based products. But for many the Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics can number one choice will remain meat. Although veganism is on help New Zealand overcome a challenge” with a the rise, so too is the trend that benefits New Zealand – the move one page CV and details of intended course of toward “real food.” study to [email protected]. So although I can understand Mr Cameron’s desire to dine on a For more information email burger containing 21 ingredients including soy leghempoglobin [email protected] and zinc glutonate, for now I’ll stick with the burger with just one: 100% pure New Zealand beef. Applications close 11 October THE TEMUKA TELEGRAPH Deadline: 20th of each month, or by prior arrangement. Delivery: First week of each month. Articles for the Telegraph; submissions are welcome from contributors. The content must be connected to Temuka and nearby districts, and/ or it’s community and locals. While every reasonable attempt has been made to achieve complete accuracy of the content of this newsletter, connections of The Temuka Authorised by Andrew Falloon MP, Parliament Buildings, Wgtn. Telegraph will not accept responsibility for consequences arising from incorrect information being submitted. 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