I wonder, is the new Hawke’s Bay crop going to be pine trees? RNZ reports that “since 2020, IKEA has converted six Central Hawke’s Bay farms into pine forestry, which they believe makes them the largest forestry owner in the district.” The globalists according to the late evangelist and author Barry Smith, have appointed NZ to be the sole producer of pine trees. Part of the new interdependent global village concept they planned long ago without consulting us. More on that later.

So McCain is closing its Hastings plant at the end of 2026. Their sign says ‘For us, for family’. They have even translated it into te reo. ‘Mō Whānau’. I’ve been around long enough to have observed this scenario up and down clean and green for many decades. It is all economic. ‘For Family’ is to get you thinking they really care. They don’t of course. They are just really good at reframing things.