How an Adventist Health Food Company Is Leveraging AI to Share Its Message

24 Feb 2026


Australia and New Zealand’s Sanitarium is making the most of new technologies.

Marcos Paseggi, Adventist Review

Todd Saunders (right) and Rachel Glasbergen, from Sanitarium Australia and New Zealand, share how the company is resorting to AI tools to share its message across. [Photo: Marcos Paseggi, Adventist Review]



Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in images and video during the past couple of years, and the Sanitarium Health Food Company in Australia and New Zealand is tapping into some of those new possibilities, according to the company executive general manager Todd Saunders. In a presentation during the 2026 Adventist Health Food Association (AHFA) Conference in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Saunders and Rachel Glasbergen, who leads The Alternative Dairy Company for Sanitarium, shared how the company is leveraging AI use to streamline the company ads across platforms and what they have learned along the way.

In their February 10 presentation, Saunders and Glasbergen highlighted the opportunities, challenges, and possibilities of AI in the area of marketing and advertising. They did it by sharing some case studies based on their experience of The Alternative Dairy Company, a brand under Sanitarium that produces specialized, barista-grade plant-based milks, including oat, almond, soy, and coconut. Designed for cafés, their products are crafted for superior frothing and latte art, and in many cases use locally sourced ingredients.

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“On one day, 30 people were jabbed on the same day, at the same location. All are now deceased. And their deaths are in close temporal, time, proximity to each other,” she said.

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My Sunday: Reverend Perema Leasi

Sarah Catherall

05:00, Jun 23 2019

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Sixty-year-old Reverend Perema Leasi came to New Zealand from Samoa when he was 19.

Reverend Perema Leasi is the solo minister at Christ the King Pacific Islands Presbyterian Church in Porirua. Last year, the 60-year-old received a Queen's Service Medal for his services to the Pacific community. He lives with his wife, Faaolataga, and four children in Cannons Creek.

When I was a boy living in the village of Saipai, on Savai'i, in Samoa, we weren't allowed to swim on a Sunday. It was our religious belief that Sunday was a rest day and a day for prayer. It would be really, really hot and we weren't allowed to swim in the sea because we had to rest.

I was the oldest of seven children. Four of us are still alive. My mother was a Sunday school teacher. I went to Sunday school every morning in Saipai and then to church.

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Porirua Reverend Perema Leasi with his wife Faaolataga Leasi.


I came to New Zealand when I was 19. My uncle in Australia sent me a working permit and I moved to Auckland to work in the Zip factory for four years. I joined the Pacific Island church in Avondale, and I began as a Sunday school teacher and a lay preacher. I eventually trained as a minister at Knox Presbyterian College in Dunedin and I also did a bachelor of theology.

It's a bit of a story why I went down this path. My mother told the story [one] Sunday, when the whole church came here for my birthday lunch. The day I was born there were two missionaries who visited our village from Apia. They were palangi. One missionary's name was Mr Primer. That was where my name Perema came from, because my parents translated his name to the Samoan equivalent.

In the very low moments of my life, it's when the call comes to me. I was really down at one stage in my life. The whole thing that encouraged me was that there must be a reason why I was called my name by my parents.

Standing in Solidarity with Muslims following New Zealand Attack

The World Council of Religious Leaders Condemns the Attacks on the Faithful in New Zealand

News provided by The World Council of Religious Leaders

Mar 15, 2019, 18:05 ET


NEW YORK, March 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Secretary-General of the World Council of Religious Leaders, today issues the following statement:

"Leaders of all religions, creeds and civilizations condemn this horrific attack in New Zealand in the strongest possible terms. It is a crime against people of faith and people of decency and tolerance everywhere in the world.

"Places of worship are sacred gathering areas where people should be able to practice their faith without fearing for their safety.

"There is no place in the civilized world for the violence we saw today. This senseless killing stands in contrast to everything the religious leaders representing Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and other faiths that I work with are trying to foster. Our goals must always be education, tolerance, diversity, and coexistence.

"Addressing this level of extremism requires not just faith-based organization, but also leaders from government, business, media, finance, technology, and other organizations around the world to work together to encourage tolerance overall.

"In partnership with the Muslim World League, which represents the world's 1.8 billion people of Islamic faith, we have recently created the Centre for Responsible Leadership (CRL), to encourage those in a position of power anywhere in the world to commit to a common set of principles that guide their actions and restore responsible decision-making. We call on leaders from all faiths and backgrounds to join us at the United Nations for the Responsible Leaders Summit on May 1 to directly address religious intolerance and how to unite the faithful, among other pressing issues. And it starts with combatting and preventing the types of terrible violence we witnessed today in New Zealand.

"The World Council of Religious Leaders expresses its deepest condolences to the families, friends and communities of the victims."

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An Urgent Response to David Gates & March 2019 Close of Probation

Read Between the Lines: Hollywood Mogul Buys 2,600 Acres of Farmland; Moving to New Zealand

Mac Slavo February 1st, 2012 SHTFplan.com

James Cameron, the Hollywood producer responsible for blockbuster films like Terminator, Titanic and Avatar, is reportedly preparing to exit stage left. While the move for the Canadian born Cameron may initially be perceived as a rejection or denouncement of American policies and ideals, Cameron, who has made campaign donations to the Democrat Party in the past, most notably during the 2004 Presidential election where he supported democrat John Kerry, may have ulterior motivations, as evidenced by where he’s planning on moving and what he’s planning on doing once he gets there.

From time to time we get a glimpse into the goings on of the well connected. This may be one of those moments:

Cameron has successfully applied to buy 1,067 hectares (2,636 acres) of farmland in New Zealand. In an application filed with the New Zealand Overseas Investment Office, Cameron says he and his family “intend to reside indefinitely in New Zealand and are acquiring the property to reside on and operate as a working farm.”

Source: Associated Press, via Matt Drudge

As we’ve outlined before, farmland is one of the only reasonable physical assets to hold in the event of a major crisis, as you’ll be outside of highly populated metropolitan areas, you’ll have the ability to produce your own food, generate your own energy, and, more so than your urbanite and suburbanite counterparts, stay away from the chaos that will ensue during a major upheaval.

Liberty Media CEO James Malone, like director James Cameron, has also taken refuge outside of major cities at his ranch on the Quebec border, giving him and his family an immediate international bug out plan in the event of an emergency. Another sign from the elite is that large net worth individuals and investment managers are buying up and taking physical delivery of precious metals, which in our humble opinion, is a leading indicator that large in-the-know investors are preparing for a loss of confidence in the stability of the global economic, monetary, financial and/or political systems.

Congressman Roscoe Bartlett recently warned that Those Who Can, Should Move Their Families Out Of the City, and insiders are worried about game changing riots stemming from the Occupy movement.

The theory that elite members of society know something is amiss is further strengthened by comments such as those of financier George Soros who publicly declared in a recent interview with Newsweek that he expects violent riots on the streets of America in coming months and years.

Furthermore, we have federal agencies and local police departments actively training for urban conflict, and the Pentagon has been war gaming scenarios that include large scale economic breakdown and civil unrest.

The stories reported over the last several years point to a growing consensus among elite business leaders, politicians, and military generals that we’re headed into a situation that is wholly unpredictable. They know the system is on the brink, have said so repeatedly, and are actively taking steps to manage a crisis should it ever come to that.

Short of the mainstream media coming out and broadcasting to the American people that the system is about to destabilize and to expect nothing short of total meltdown and pandemonium, reading between the lines and watching the actions of those who are interconnected with the money and power structures on which the system is built will be our only warning signal for the difficult times we face in the near future.

The message is loud and clear. Are you listening?

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Quotes of the Day

Friday, Dec. 23, 2011

"The building rocked like crazy, all the cars were bouncing up and down on their springs."

• BRIAN CORNISH,
• a witness to Friday's earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, said people were terrified that the 5.8 and 5.9 tremors were a repeat of Febrary's devastating quake which claimed 181 lives

Source: http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,2103042,00.html #ixzz1hT5IudBS

Bizarre baby names: banned in New Zealand

by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) on Jul 21st 2011 at 2:00PM

The spawn of Hollywood celebrities will probably want to avoid giving birth in New Zealand in the future. The annoying trend of bequeathing ridiculous names to one's offspring will no longer be tolerated in the island nation, according to CNN.

The country's Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages is banning "weird" baby names: the current list includes Lucifer, Duke, Messiah, and 89 (let's hope that's not his/her birth order). Bishop, Baron, General, Judge, King, Knight, and Mr. were said to be too similar to titles. And letters such as C, D, I, and T and names involving punctuation marks? Nope.

In 2008, New Zealand's names registrar approved non-traditional names (there's a set of twins out there named Benson and Hedges). Apparently, circumstances or places of conception were also cool as namesakes. Hence, Violence and Number 16 Bus Shelter. But now there's an end to the madness, and hopefully New Zealand will once again become a nation of Liam's and Chloe's.

Fortunately, Sweden (sorry, Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, pronounced Albin) and the Dominican Republic are getting on board with banning idiotic baby names. In 2007, a Dominican judge banned "Tonton" (Dummy) Ruiz, but only because it was confusing and/or gave no indication of gender.

I'm all for foreign or original baby names (despite to this day being called "Laura/Lauren/Nora/Floral/Coral" on a daily basis). But doesn't it constitute a form of child abuse when you stick your kid with a handle guaranteed to inspire butt-kicking on the playground? You'd better learn taekwando, Bronx Mowgli Wentz.

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Bishop objects to anti-Catholic insert in newspaper

Sunday 19 June 2011


by by PETER GRACE AUCKLAND - Thousands of words attacking the papacy and Catholicism appeared in an Auckland community newspaper in late May.

The North Shore Times, owned by Fairfax Media, carried an insert called The South Pacific Signs of the Times.

The text refers consistently to "popery". It shows a text-number matrix that claims to show the name Vicarius Filii Dei (Vicar of the Son of God) produces the number 666 (the mark of the beast). It also attacks other churches and the Jewish community.

The editor of the North Shore Times, Peter Eley, told NZ Catholic that he could not say much as his general manager, David Penny, had said he would deal with it.

"I'm not going to run away from this," Mr Eley said. "I am going to apologise, as it was a disgraceful piece."

Mr Eley said he didn't know about the insert before the paper was distributed.

The Head of Content for Suburban Newspapers, Matthew Gray, said in a statement that, "This insert was provided to us at our printing plant, pre-printed and bundled by the organisation that produced it, Hope International. The content does not reflect the views of the North Shore Times and we regret any offence it may have caused. The paper has changed its procedures with inserted material received from third parties, to ensure this does not happen again."

The Bishop of Auckland, Bishop Patrick Dunn, had earlier written to the newspaper expressing his concern.

"I am very surprised that an insert of this nature, with its offensive comments . . . managed to find its way into the North Shore Times.

"Your paper has a long history of service to the community. . . . I feel sure that you would not want to align yourselves with the kind of distasteful and scaremongering material in this tabloid insert."

Bishop Dunn said it would be appreciated if the paper publicly disassociated itself from any endorsement of the derogatory comments in the insert.

The insert fails to say who produced it. However, an imprint on the last page refers to Patriotic Christian Distributors (PCD). An online search brings up websites describing PCD as a Seventh Day Adventist company in Christchurch.

A browse of the site of one advertiser in the insert, Hope International, reveals more anti-Catholic statements.


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New Zealand dollar tumbles after strong earthquake

TOKYO Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:04pm EST

TOKYO Feb 22 (Reuters) - The New Zealand dollar fell more than 1 percent on Tuesday after Christchurch was struck by a second major tremor in five months.

The quake had a magnitude of 6.3 and its epicentre was just 10 km southwest of Christchurch, the country's second biggest city. The New Zealand dollar fell to as low as $0.7541 NZD=D4, down about 1.2 percent from late U.S. levels. (Reporting by Hideyuki Sano; Editing by Edmund Klamann)


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