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Supreme bacon brings home supreme prize for Hawke's Bay butcher

11 Aug 2023

Wild Game owners Jordan and Varnnah Hamilton-Bicknell were named Supreme Winner in both the bacon and the ham categories of the 100% New Zealand Bacon & Ham Awards. Audio

Supreme bacon brings home supreme prize for Hawke's Bay butcher

11 Aug 2023

Wild Game owners Jordan and Varnnah Hamilton-Bicknell were named Supreme Winner in both the bacon and the ham categories of the 100% New Zealand Bacon & Ham Awards.

Audio

Covid-19: Bacon on offer with vaccinations

22 Sep 2021

Taranaki DHB is running a get a bacon butty with your Covid-19 vaccine promotion in New Plymouth.

Reporter Bacon Martin was there. Audio

Covid-19: Taranaki DHB banks on free food to entice population to get vaccinated

22 Sep 2021

Everybody loves a free feed, and Taranaki DHB is banking on that as a way to entice people to get a jab.

Anybody who turns up at the New Plymouth vaccination centre before 9am on Wednesday will be… Audio

Vegans and the people who hate them

8 Dec 2019

Earlier this year, two pro-meat protesters skinned and ate raw squirrels in front of members of the public at a vegan food stand in Soho. Inspired by the event, food writer George Reynolds set out to… Audio

Why pork prices are rising

9 May 2019

Pork prices have gone up by up to 25 percent due to a world-wide shortage, fuelled by African Swine Fever, which is decimating pig stocks in China. Kethaki Masilamani spoke to David Baines from NZ… Audio

Is our bacon really Made in New Zealand?

20 Jul 2018

Much has been made in media of the revelation that a high proportion of the bacon we buy comes from places like Spain and Finland but is said to be made in NZ. Audio

NZ Pork Awards

19 Aug 2016

NZ's premiere pork competition held its annual awards dinner last month. The 100% NZ Pork awards aim to celebrate top class bacon, ham and pork products .This year there were around 200 entries from… Audio, Gallery

NZ Pork Awards

19 Aug 2016

NZ's premiere pork competition held its annual awards dinner last month. The 100% NZ Pork awards aim to celebrate top class bacon, ham and pork products .This year there were around 200 entries from…

Audio

Making Bacon

18 Dec 2015

In 2014 Havoc Pork moved its processing operation from Waimate, where the Havoc farm runs 800 free-range pigs, to Dunedin when Cain Lindegreen took over the family business from his mother Linda… Audio

Making Bacon

18 Dec 2015

In 2014 Havoc Pork moved its processing operation from Waimate, where the Havoc farm runs 800 free-range pigs, to Dunedin when Cain Lindegreen took over the family business from his mother Linda…

Audio

Bacon kills?

31 Oct 2015

Could eating too much bacon kill you? Sarah Boseley, the health editor of the Guardian, has been following the story in Europe and the US. Also Professor Ian Shaw of The University of Canterbury has… Audio