The Greens banned list
The Greens are often a contradictory party. They stand up for civil liberties on the one hand, but want to ban almost anything they disagree with or think is bad. They advocate in favour of scientists when it comes to climate change, but campaign against science when it comes to genetics.
In many ways they are the ultimate nanny state party. The list of things they want to ban puts Labour in the shade. In recent days I got wondering how many things do they want to ban? So I engaged my masochistic side and decided to find out by reading every Green policy they have released. Yes I have now read every single one. And below is the list of 85 things the Greens want to ban.
Now of course with any list that long, there might be one or two different people agree with. But what is scary is looking at the list as a whole, and seeing how banning is their first instinct.
Now this is only stuff they officially want to ban as detailed in a policy statement. I haven’t even attempted to go through the masses of press releases and speeches where MPs have advocated additional bans on anything that moves. So this is a conservative list.
- Ban fizzy drinks from schools
- Ban fuel inefficient vehicles
- Ban all gaming machines in pubs
- Ban the GCSB
- Ban violent TV programmes until after 10 pm
- Ban feeding of antibiotics to animals that are not sick
- Ban companies that do not comply with a Code of Corporate Responsibility
- Ban ACC from investing in enterprises that provide products or services that significantly increase rates of injury or illness or otherwise have significant adverse social or environmental effects
- Ban commercial Genetic Engineering trials
- Ban field testing on production of GE food
- Ban import of GE food
- Ban Urban Sprawl
- Ban non citizens/residents from owning land
- Ban further corporate farming
- Ban sale of high country farms to NZers who do not live in NZ at least 185 days a year
- Ban the transport by sea of farm animals, for more than 24 hours
- Ban crates for sows
- Ban battery cages for hens
- Ban factory farming of animals
- Ban the use of mechanically recovered meat in the food chain
- Ban the use of the ground-up remains of sheep and cows as stock feed
- Ban animal testing where animals suffer, even if of benefit to humans
- Ban cloning of animals
- Ban use of animals in GE
- Ban GE animal food
- Ban docking of dogs tails
- Ban intrusive animal experimentation as a teaching method in all educational institutions
- Ban smacking
- Ban advertising during children’s programmes
- Ban alcohol advertising on TV and radio
- Ban coal mining
- Ban the export of indigenous logs and chips
- Ban the use of bio-accumulative and persistent poisons
- Ban the establishment of mustelid farms
- Ban new exploration, prospecting and mining on conservation land and reserves
- Ban mining activities when rare and endemic species are found to present on the mining site
- Ban the trading conservation land for other land to facilitate extractive activities on.
- Ban the further holding of marine mammals in captivity except as part of an approved threatened species recovery strategy
- Ban the direct to consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals
- Ban sale of chips and lollies on school property
- Ban any additional use of coal for energy
- Ban fixed electricity charges
- Ban further large hydro plants
- Ban nuclear power
- Ban further thermal generation
- Ban private water management
- Ban imported vehicles over seven years old
- Ban the disposal of recyclable materials at landfills
- Ban the export of hazardous waste to non OECD countries
- Ban funding of health services by companies that sell unhealthy food (so McDonalds could not fund services for young cancer sufferers)
- Ban healthcare organizations from selling unhealthy food or drink
- Ban advertising of unhealthy food until after 8.30 pm
- Ban all food and drink advertisements on TV if they do not meet criteria for nutritious food
- Ban the use of antibiotics as sprays on crops
- Ban food irradiation within NZ
- Ban irradiated food imports
- Ban growth hormones for animals
- Ban crown agency investments in any entity that denies climate change!!
- Ban crown agency investments in any entity that is involved in tobacco
- Ban crown agency investments in any entity that is involved in environmentally damaging oil extraction or gold mining
- Ban non UN sanctioned military involvement (so China and Russia gets to veto all NZ engagements)
- Ban NZ from military treaties which are based on the right to self defence
- Ban NZers from serving as mercenaries
- Ban new casinos
- Allow existing casinos to be banned
- Ban promotion of Internet gambling
- Ban advertising of unhealthy food to children
- Ban cellphone towers within 300 metres of homes
- Ban new buildings that do not confirm to sustainable building principles
- Ban migrants who do not undertake Treaty of Waitangi education programmes
- Ban new prisons
- Ban semi-automatic weapons
- Ban genetic mixing between specieis
- Ban ocean mineral extractions within the EEZ
- Ban limited liability companies by making owners responsible for liability of products
- Ban funding of PTEs that compete with public tertiary institutes
- Ban the importation of goods and services that do not meet quality and environmental certification standards in production, lifecycle analysis, and eco-labelling
- Ban goods that do not meet quality and sustainability standards for goods which are produced and/or sold in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Ban new urban highways or motorways
- Ban private toll roads
- Ban import of vehicles more than seven years old unless they meet emission standards
- Ban imported goods that do not meet standards for durability and ease of recycling
- Ban landfills
- Ban new houses without water saving measures
- Ban programmes on TVNZ with gratuitous violence
If you discover further things they want to ban, add them on below!
UPDATE: Water Bottling deals also to be banned – April 2016