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Of course, there are vegans
who eat too few calories, or too
many refined carbohydrates.
To miss the complex carbo-
hydrates and pulses and eat
only fruit and veges is as stupid
as loading yourself up with
meat, fat and dairy. Certainly,
we have to be taught to focus
on whole foods with micronu-
trients and fibre and to get our
calories from traditional starch
sources such as rice, beans,
potatoes, lentils and corn, with
fruit and veges. Sure, we need
to learn new recipes to make
it tasty. And supplement with
vitamin B12 – that is easy.
But there seems to be an
obsession with getting enough
protein, when in fact in the
West we suffer from diseases
of excess, not deficiencies, of
protein.
The upcoming movie The
Game Changers, produced by
James Cameron and Arnold
Schwarzenegger, among
others, shows that athletes
and body-builders thrive andperform on plant-based diets.
Deirdre Kent
(Waikanae)I hope the Listener does a fol-
low-up story about how easy,
healthy and rewarding it is to
go vegan. In the meantime,
the Vegan Society Aotearoa
(tryvegan.org.nz) provides
help, advice and information
for those interested in trying a
vegan diet.
Claire Insley
(Karamea)The Listener tells us that the
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), the
medical profession, scientists
and some advocates in the
Government and the agri-
cultural sector want us to eat
more vegetables.
Yet Nutrition in the same
issue of the magazine points
out that when children are
“cajoled, bribed and forced”
into eating more vegetables, it
backfires. Columnist JenniferGE
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Caption: “Black Fern finds
Aussie locks a real handful.”- Brian Marks, Paihia
Selica Winiata: “And you
Aussies think Split Enz is a
Kiwi thing.” – Claudia Freeman,
GisborneCaption: “Another scalp for
the Black Ferns.” – Tom Cass,
ŌpōtikiWiniata: “Just checking
our transtasman ties.”
– Ray Battersby, WellingtonWiniata: “You’ve just
won the pull-it-surprise!”
– Helen Carver, DannevirkeWiniata: “No one ever got
carded for a high tangle.”
– Kath Jones, WaikanaeCaption: “The effect of John
Key’s surprise appointment
as Black Ferns coach was
soon evident on the field.”
– Max Tasman, AucklandCaption: “Australia came
within a hair’s breadth
of scoring.” – John Stribling,
WellingtonWiniata: “It won’t happen
overnight, but it will
happen.” – Rex McGregor,
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Julian Lee, ŌpōtikiBowden recommends “more
carrot, less stick”. I suggest that
adults are no different.
Jenny Hammond
(Ngaio, Wellington)“What’s for dinner?” touched
on the genetically engineered
ryegrass developed in New
Zealand that is being trialled
in the US. Given the amount
of publicity surrounding this
development, it was with
interest that I attended a meet-
ing organised by DairyNZ for
rural professionals. A presenta-
tion was given by a scientist
from AgResearch expounding
the benefits of the new grass,
with, of course, the caveat thattrials still had a way to go and
it hadn’t actually been fed to
animals yet.
It sounded marvellous: a
grass that, thanks to uncou-
pling of the processes normally
inhibiting photosynthesis,
would grow 50% faster. It accu-
mulates oil in its leaves, which
would give animals more
energy, cut nitrogen excretion
by 15% and methane emis-
sions by 15-23%.
But something didn’t quite
add up, so I talked to the
scientist afterwards. If the
grass grew so fast, wouldn’t it
need more nitrogen? Well, yes.
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