Baileys vegan flavour
OPINION: World famous liqueur maker Baileys is the latest to dabble with plant-based products.
Stop calling your product milk! That’s the message from a US Senator to non-dairy producers.
Wisconsin Sen Tammy Baldwin introduced legislation this month that would force the FDA to enforce the agency’s current food standards and ban plant-based products from being called “milk,” “cheese” and “yoghurt".
Baldwin argued that the products are mislabeled under the FDA’s current definition of milk and so are misleading consumers And they hurt dairy producers.
“Dairy farmers work tirelessly every day to ensure their milk meets high standards of nutritional value and quality; imitation products are using dairy’s good name for their [makers’] benefit.”
Brett Wotton, an Eastern Bay of Plenty kiwifruit grower and harvest contractor, has won the 2025 Kiwifruit Innovation Award for his work to support lifting fruit quality across the industry.
Academic Dr Mike Joy and his employer, Victoria University of Wellington have apologised for his comments suggesting that dairy industry CEOs should be hanged for contributing towards nitrate poisoning of waterways.
Environment Southland's catchment improvement funding is once again available for innovative landowners in need of a boost to get their project going.
The team meeting at the Culverden Hotel was relaxed and open, despite being in the middle of calving when stress levels are at peak levels, especially in bitterly cold and wet conditions like today.
A comment by outspoken academic Dr Mike Joy suggesting that dairy industry leaders should be hanged for nitrate contamination of drinking/groundwater has enraged farmers.
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