Browning SteffanSTEFFAN BROWNING (Green): I am rising to talk about the Consumers' Right to Know (Country of Origin of Food) Bill. Recently Consumer New Zealand and Horticulture New Zealand announced a poll of more than a thousand people. They found 71 percent of those polled wanted mandatory country-of-origin labelling and only 9 percent were opposed to it—only 9 percent. In 2007 the Green Party had a 39000-strong petition calling for mandatory country-of-origin labelling—right back then. In 2014 Russell McVeagh reported that a recent consumer survey found that 35 percent of New Zealanders then always or often considered a New Zealand - made product first and more than 50 percent were prepared to pay a bit more for it. There is not even an issue of costing more for consumers if we go down the mandatory country-of-origin labelling path at this point. So we are after all parties in this House to support that member's bill when it comes up next month.Around the same time in 2014 the seafood industry had a document Country of Origin Labelling and the New Zealand Seafood Industry. Again most New Zealanders said they would support it: 53 percent wanted more on their labels and 42 percent wanted more country-of-origin labelling and manufacturer information. As I say here we are in 2017 and Consumer New Zealand and Horticulture New Zealand which I might add represents 5500 growers find in a very reputable poll that seven out of 10 Kiwis want mandatory country-of-origin labelling. They say 65 percent of shoppers look for labelling information on fresh fruit but less than a third always find it—just 32 percent always find that when they are looking for it—and even fewer just 29 percent find it on vegetables.New Zealanders deserve to know where their food comes from and they want to. They want to know. They want food they can trust. They want labels that they can trust. New Zealand Pork reports that almost 60 percent of the pork consumed in New Zealand at this point is imported pork but do we see labels saying Pork; product of Canada" "Pork; product of Australia" or "Pork; product of China" or wherever? We do not. We are lucky if we see some that say "Product of New Zealand" but consumers deserve and want to know where their food comes from. It seems to be increasing. Voluntary labelling as is used in part by two of the main supermarket chains is not good enough and it is really not working. One example for me was just around the new year in a supermarket in Amberley and it had capsicum—"Product of New Zealand/Australia/Holland". Which country did it come from? That is voluntary labelling for you and there are far more examples than that.There are at least 1000 food outlets in this country that do not have voluntary country-of-origin labelling. There are plenty of stores that do not have it. Australia has had it for years—it seems like for ever. It was in 2005 that New Zealand opted out of the Australia and New Zealand Food Authority food safety agreement in terms of this issue country-of-origin labelling and Australia has only strengthened it since then. It has come out with quite a new label at the moment that has at least the proportion in there. This bill is a very simple bill for single ingredients—fresh fruit and vegetables fish meat grains oils that sort of thing. I am calling on all parties in this House to support the bill. Thank you."