610 - Troublesome Tim Blows Brilliant Bubbles - Tim Lynch

Is cooking on the fence the undecided voter? Because it's inherently collective, as in manaakitanga, you're looking after other people, but also you're doing it for profit.

You're cooking so that you can, whatever it was you said, have a better car.

Yes, yes,

that's right.

I mean, cooking is really interesting in that respect, because if you talk to many...

From indigenous backgrounds, they will say the hardest thing that they find about cooking is making money out of it.

It's a very difficult thing to do for

them personally.

Because if you look in Te Ao Māori perspective, that notion of kai o kai, I give you a fish because it is part of who I am.

And that is part of the exchange.

And that's what makes the exchange meaningful and have depth to

it.

Simultaneously, the thing about cooking and food in particular is that we eat, we make a vote three times a day deciding on what we eat.

It establishes who we are, it shows our value sets, talks about where we stand in it and it's an outward voice of our values and who we are as a person.

And we do that three times a day.

You know, the single greatest thing you can do for climate change, well I'll argue the two best things you can do for climate change, one of them is just look at your diet.

It's a simple fix.

And I'm not saying become vegan.

Eat more plants and meat.

If you eat more plants and meat, it's better for you, it's better for the planet, it's better for everyone, and it's going to cost you less, and you're going to have a generally healthier, more nutritious diet.

Plants are interesting.

They've got lots of different flavours.

You can do lots of things to them.

Meat, if you look in the supermarket, I mean, you can count on one hand the different types.

It's actually not particularly, most of it.