{"id":36405,"date":"2021-09-04T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/04\/new-zealand-and-australia-prepare-to-do-battle-again-over-treasured-and-lucrative-manuka-honey"},"modified":"2021-09-04T07:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:02:47","slug":"new-zealand-and-australia-prepare-to-do-battle-again-over-treasured-and-lucrative-manuka-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36405","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand and Australia prepare to do battle (again) over treasured and lucrative M\u0101nuka honey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori liken their trademark application to France\u2019s effort to protect the term champagne, while Australia says you can\u2019t claim a plant<\/p>\n<p>Long before the name M\u0101nuka became synonymous with a booming honey industry, celebrity endorsements and protracted global disputes, it was known in M\u0101ori legend. After T\u0101ne Mahuta, the god of forests, separated his parents from their locked embrace, he set out to cloak Papat\u016b\u0101nuku (his earth mother) in trees. One of these trees, born from his union with Tawake-Toro, was the M\u0101nuka, with its dense, spiky foliage, delicate white flowers and unique pollen.<\/p>\n<p>M\u0101nuka is considered a taonga, or treasure, of which M\u0101ori are considered the kaitiaki (guardians). The legend, and the M\u0101ori relationship to M\u0101nuka, has become an important tool in a global battle to protect Aotearoa New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101nuka honey brand, the most bitter part of which is between New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/04\/new-zealand-and-australia-prepare-to-do-battle-again-over-treasured-and-lucrative-manuka-honey\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori liken their trademark application to France\u2019s effort to protect the term champagne, while Australia says you can\u2019t claim a plantLong before the name M\u0101nuka became synonymous with a booming honey industry, celebrity endorsements and protracted glo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,311,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-food","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36406,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405\/revisions\/36406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}