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      No, New Zealand Has Not Banned "Human Right To Grow Food"

      The New Zealand Department of Primary Industries said that there is no legislation supporting these claims.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  19 Nov 2020 5:03 PM IST
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      No, New Zealand Has Not Banned Human Right To Grow Food
      Multiple Facebook posts shared hundreds of times claim New Zealand's government passed legislation that revoked residents' "human right to grow food". The claim is false; the New Zealand Department of Primary Industries told AFP that "there is no legislation supporting these claims"; similar claims have circulated online since at least 2014 after New Zealand's parliament passed a bill the same year which regulated food production.


      The claim was published by a New Zealand-based Facebook user here. The post has been shared more than 140 times.


      A screenshot of the post, taken November 16, 2020.

      The post includes what appears to be a screenshot of an article posted to an unidentified website. The byline reads: "Investment Watch Blog".

      The article's headline reads "New Food Bill in New Zealand Takes Away Human Right to Grow Food".

      The claim has been shared hundreds of times by other Facebook users here, here and here.

      The claim, however, is false; similar claims have circulated online since at least 2014.

      A New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries spokesperson told AFP via email that "the claims made in the screenshot are entirely false and there is no legislation supporting these claims".

      Also Read: No, The US CDC Has Not Claimed That COVID-19 Does Not Exist

      The original post referenced in the screenshot written by "The Investment Watch Blog" was published on September 21, 2011, here. A similar claim was published by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his website Infowars here in 2011.

      The posts were published in response to the 2010 New Zealand Food Bill 160-2, which aimed to introduce new regulations for food production in the country.

      Petitions and websites were set up to voice opposition to the bill. Critics claimed the legislation could seriously limit food production in community gardens, food co-ops and farmers markets.

      The bill stalled from 2010 to 2013, but passed parliament in 2014 after a number of changes were introduced to allay concerns about certain parts of the bill.

      Some of the changes included:

      • The wording of the bill was changed to exclude seeds sold for propagation to be governed by the legislation.
      • The bill was clarified to include that non-commercial exchanges of food between family and friends is not governed by the legislation.
      • Added explicit exemptions for fundraisers, clarifying that certain community events were only required to provide that the food was safe and suitable for consumption.

      Similar claims that it's illegal to grow food in New Zealand have been cropping up on the internet since at least 2014.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      New ZealandJacinda ArdernHuman Rights
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      Claim :   New Zealand's government passed legislation that revoked residents' human right to grow food.
      Claimed By :  Facebook posts
      Fact Check :  False
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