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Organic Gardeners Bare It All For A Good Cause
Monday, 27 November 2023, 3:13 pm | Soil and Health Association
This Christmas, the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand proudly presents its first calendar. It's not just your run-of-the-mill calendar – it's a celebration of organic gardening, regenerating the land, and a bit of good-natured cheekiness! ... More >>
Organic Regenerative Farming Needed To Reduce Climate Change, Not GE
Monday, 12 June 2023, 2:08 pm | Soil and Health Association
New Zealand doesn’t need a loosening of GE regulation to combat climate change, it needs significant investment in organic, regenerative agriculture, says the Soil & Health Association. Parliament recently passed the Organic Products and ... More >>
Polluting chemicals left out of freshwater policy
Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 9:25 am | Soil and Health Association
The Soil and Health Association and Physicians and Scientists for Global Responsibility claim that environmental chemicals and heavy metals have been left outside the scope of the freshwater policy process. More >>
Response to AgCarm: Yes, the IARC is an ‘outlier’
Wednesday, 9 October 2019, 7:19 pm | Soil and Health Association
The Soil & Health Association of New Zealand Response to AgCarm Yes, the IARC is an ‘outlier’ and we are the safer for it An October 1 media release by Agcarm draws attention to the fact that the chemical industry affirms the safety of glyphosate. ... More >>
Let's go organic, Jacinda!
Thursday, 26 September 2019, 2:45 pm | Soil and Health Association
The Soil & Health Association is calling on the government to make good Jacinda Ardern’s statement to the United Nations that New Zealand is ‘determined to show that we can be the most sustainable food producers in the world’. More >>
Worried about 'free-range' chickens? Choose organic!
Friday, 3 May 2019, 11:10 am | Soil and Health Association
“The only way to ensure that the chickens you are eating are genuinely free range is to choose organic,” says Marion Wood, co-chair of the Soil & Health Association. “And what better time to start than during Organic Week, which is right now.” ... More >>
Christmas comes early for the Organic Sector
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 3:18 pm | Soil and Health Association
“This is an amazing Christmas present for the organic community and we’re delighted,” says Bailey Peryman, Chairperson for the Soil & Health Association, welcoming the Government’s announcement to progress with a national standard for organic ... More >>
Where’s our food from? Better labelling a step forward
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 3:42 pm | Soil and Health Association
The blindfold will finally be lifted when it comes to buying food, but the Soil & Health Association says consumers need even greater transparency. More >>
Community support for a GE-free Coastal Marine Area
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 11:10 am | Soil and Health Association
Usually associated with land-based farming, the Soil & Health Association is now wading into the coastal marine area in its latest bid towards an Organic Aotearoa New Zealand. More >>
Safe to eat? Certainly not for kids!
Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 5:43 pm | Soil and Health Association
Children are being exposed to a cocktail of pesticides every time they eat non-organic raisins and sultanas. The latest Total Diet Study, released by the Ministry for Primary Industries, showed residues of 26 pesticides in just one sample, and all eight samples ... More >>
Another win for a GE-free NZ!
Friday, 13 April 2018, 6:28 pm | Soil and Health Association
The Soil & Health Association welcomes a decision released today by the Environment Court declining Federated Farmers’ attempt to challenge regulation of genetically modified organisms under the RMA. More >>
Councils retain right to regulate GE trees
Sunday, 13 August 2017, 9:40 pm | Soil and Health Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13 August 2017 The Soil & Health Association is thrilled that newly released standards for forestry no longer include a controversial clause that would have allowed the planting of genetically engineered (GE) trees across ... More >>
Health Not Herbicides: Time to Phase Out Glyphosate
Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 12:24 pm | Soil and Health Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 August 2017 Our public agencies must protect human health and ecosystems, and use rigorous independent science rather than industry data, says the Soil & Health Association. Soil & Health welcomes the release of a paper ... More >>
GE Potatoes Set to Sneak into Our Food
Wednesday, 5 July 2017, 9:56 am | Soil and Health Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 July 2017 The Soil & Health Association has serious concerns about another GE food line being approved in New Zealand – this time for six food lines derived from potatoes. More >>
Consumers' Right to Know Bill
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 5:29 pm | Soil and Health Association
Kiwis want to take off the blindfold we have when it comes to buying food. That’s the message of the Soil & Health Association, which welcomes the Consumers’ Right to Know (Labelling of Country of Origin of Food) Bill currently before a parliamentary ... More >>
GE-Free Zones partially protected
Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 10:29 am | Soil and Health Association
The Soil & Health Association welcomes a change to the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill regarding genetic engineering, but says it still does not go far enough. More >>
GE-Free Zones under Threat From RMA Amendment
Wednesday, 15 March 2017, 10:07 am | Soil and Health Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 March 2017 The Government seems hell-bent on denying the rights of communities to have GE-free zones, which are under threat from a ‘dictator clause’, says the Soil & Health Association. “We are continuing to stand ... More >>
Maori Party says no way to Nick Smith’s power grab
Monday, 19 December 2016, 1:59 pm | Soil and Health Association
The Soil & Health Association congratulates the Maori Party for standing up for New Zealanders who want to live in a GE-Free community and saying no to Nick Smith’s attempt to ride roughshod over local democracy. More >>
Maori Party RMA Deal Breaches Its Own Environment Policy
Friday, 2 December 2016, 2:03 pm | Soil and Health Association
The Maori Party’s deal with National over reforms to resource management breach the party’s own policy to work towards a GE-Free New Zealand, the Soil & Health Association says. More >>
Comprehensive new review of Monsanto's glyphosate
Wednesday, 12 October 2016, 12:03 pm | Soil and Health Association
In a “state of the science” review released today, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International presents a large body of research documenting the adverse human health and environmental impacts of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides and ... More >>
