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Weight Loss Drug Demand

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 12 May 2026

The podcast discusses how the closure of the Wattie’s frozen vegetable factory in Christchurch is driving farmers to convert from arable to dairy farming, fueled by rising demand for protein from weight loss drugs, while highlighting increased farmer confidence linked to higher商品

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  • Thank you, Simon. Well, if you're a sheep and beef farmer listening to that. I think you've got a bit of a smile on your chops, haven't you? Rodio, um, some of your text traffic coming in. Oh Jamie, red meat and animal fat did not make Americans fat. Sugar and car carbohydrates did yeah, probably a fair comment, but uh there's a lot of sugar and carbohydrate also in a hamburger. So I think hamburgers probably made Americans fat, and there is an irony that we're feeding them lean grinding beef, and now they're they're eating too much of that, and now they need uh our super protein uh if they're using these GLP one weight loss drugs. Uh here's another one coming in. Let me have a look at this. They're coming in thick and fast. Oh no, here it goes. Uh the irony that a terribly bad weight loss drug uh writes the texture is causing a spike in demand for high quality protein. No mention of methane inhibitors or ludicrously strict farm water environment plans creating a premium. You couldn't write a script, could you? So there you go. There's some of your feedback. 5009 is our text number. Before I forget, very excited. Next week is still Chainsaw Safety Awareness Week. And here on the country with our good mate from Still, Phil Rope Ha. We're giving away five still GTA 30 battery chainsaw pruner kits. They're worth 600 bucks each or 595 bucks each. This is top of the line product. It's those ones with the small bars. You hold them in your hand, you can hold them in one hand, climb up a ladder, as long as someone's holding the bottom of the ladder and chop off branches that's got a 15 centimeter bar. So believe you me, you can crack through some reasonable size uh branches with these. You'll get the pruner, you'll get two batteries, uh, you'll get a double charger, you'll get the oil, needs a bit of oil, obviously for the chain, uh, and a solid tool case. To go in the draw to win, go to our website, thecountry.co.nz and answer today's um question. And it's a pretty obvious one. What type of tool is a still? GTA 30. Go to our website, thecountry.co.nz, answer that question. We've got five to give away over the next five days. We'll have Phil Ropihar on on Monday to announce the first winner as we kick off still chainsaw safety awareness week. Radio up next, Chris Hipkins. When's he gonna come out with some policy, especially some ag policy? We'll ask the Labour Party leader next.
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the-country Government / N-A

rising global protein demand fuels NZ beef exports

The Country Full Show: Friday, May 22, 2026
22 May
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