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Seed Security Vital for New Zealand
Monday, 7 October 2013, 9:26 am | GE Free NZ
Securing New Zealand's production of seed and access to imported seed, should be a national priority but the Government must develop a long term strategy. More >>
GE foods toxicity create major disturbance to health
Friday, 27 September 2013, 2:20 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ has presented to Parliament's Regulatory Review committee raising concerns around public health following the approval by the Food Safety Authority Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) of a GE soy bean, engineered to withstand 3 toxic herbicides ... More >>
End Of The Line For Food Sovereignty?
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 4:05 pm | GE Free NZ
The extent to which New Zealand relies on Australian regulators for decisions governing genetically engineered (GE) food will be at the heart of matters considered by Parliament's Regulatory Review Committee this week. More >>
Institute Backs New Zealand Moratorium on GM release
Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 9:39 am | GE Free NZ
Ten years after New Zealand's GM moratorium automatically ended in October 2003, a new study shows it is time for the moratorium to be restored and for a strategy to benefit New Zealand's economy as a GM-Free producer in the world market. More >>
Appeal For Safety Tests of New GE Food
Tuesday, 10 September 2013, 11:37 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ in Food and Environment has been advised that an appeal lodged with the Regulatory Review committee has been accepted [1]. The appeal is against the approval of a new GE food resistant to three toxic chemicals of which one has been recently ... More >>
Serious Risk in Fed. Farmers Short Term Thinking
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 9:23 am | GE Free NZ
Federated Farmers are putting the future of farming and New Zealand exports at risk because of short term thinking and blind trust in central government regulation. More >>
Gaping Hole Created by Change to RMA - GE- Free NZ
Monday, 12 August 2013, 9:51 am | GE Free NZ
The National government is seeking to strike out the voice of communities wanting clean, safe food production that benefits local economies and exports, and are creating a hole that will add to destruction of food safety and environmental standards in ... More >>
Fonterra at Risk from GM Rye-grass
Monday, 12 August 2013, 9:26 am | GE Free NZ
Fonterra must act to safeguard exports by keeping Genetically Modified organisms out of its supply chain and adopting mixed forage shown in tests by DairyNZ to reduce emissions and improve production. More >>
'Astonishing' Rejection of Science By Food Safety Minister
Monday, 22 July 2013, 4:37 pm | GE Free NZ
The Food Safety Minister's decision to take the advice of bureaucrats and to reject peer-reviewed science, is nothing short of astonishing and puts the public at risk from food containing new levels of chemicals for which there is no known safe maximum ... More >>
China Warning for New Zealand on GE food
Thursday, 18 July 2013, 8:58 am | GE Free NZ
Evidence presented by international scientists at a conference in China is a warning for New Zealand to keep GE out of the food system, and to focus on understanding the cultural values driving demand for New Zealand food overseas. More >>
Councils Threatened by Central Government Must Not Cave In
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 3:21 pm | GE Free NZ
There are fears that a weak Auckland Council is already preparing to abandon its powers and duties, as councils come under threat from central government for doing the work they are charged with. More >>
Threat To NZ Exports If Minister Changes GMO Rules
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 10:11 am | GE Free NZ
GE-Free New Zealand members, many communities and growers around the country are alarmed over the Environment Minister Amy Adams plans to remove any capacity for Councils and communities to safeguard their region. More >>
NZ Exports Face Destruction If Minister Changes GMO Rules
Friday, 28 June 2013, 10:50 am | GE Free NZ
GE-Free New Zealand members, many communities and growers around the country are alarmed over the Environment Minister Amy Adams plans to remove any capacity for Councils and communities to safeguard their region. More >>
Food Safety Minister to table GE Freeze Petition
Monday, 24 June 2013, 4:30 pm | GE Free NZ
Food Safety Minister has confirmed that she will table an 1800 signature petition asking her to Freeze all new GE applications and review existing ones, in Parliament that GE Free NZ presented to the Minister at a meeting last week. More >>
Minister receives signature petition to review GE foods
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 3:49 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ met with the Food Safety Minister, Nikki Kaye, and her policy advisers to request an immediate review of the latest herbicide tolerant GE soy that is resistant to being sprayed with 2,4-D, Round Up and Glufosinate, she approved for our food ... More >>
Wheat imports must be tested for unapproved GE contamination
Friday, 31 May 2013, 9:07 am | GE Free NZ
The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) and all importers of wheat products from the USA must act upon the report that unapproved experimental herbicide resistant GE wheat has been found in Oregon fields.[1] An immediate embargo must be placed ... More >>
New Zealand Marchers “Don’t want GMO’s"
Monday, 27 May 2013, 9:17 am | GE Free NZ
Two thousand people in the 14 cities over New Zealand showed yesterday what they thought of GE. Rotorua was the first city to march in the World’s global day of "Marches against Monsanto" protesting about GE plant technology. There ... More >>
New Zealand a GE Free Nation - Keep Monsanto's GE seeds out
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 9:13 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand a GE Free Nation - Keep Monsanto's GE seeds out. May 25th 3pm – Speakers include Sister Loyola, voted New Zealand's top gardener in 2008. More >>
Anger against the “deafness” of GE food regulators
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 2:51 pm | GE Free NZ
Anger against the “deafness” and “conflict of interest” of GE food regulators has prompted actions in cities around New Zealand and 276 cities around the World to highlight the dangers that the GE plants pose to all sectors of the population. More >>
GE plants a major source of formaldehyde exposure?
Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 9:43 am | GE Free NZ
New information on the levels of nutrients in glyphosate-tolerant (Roundup-tolerant) GE corn plants grown alongside non-GE plants shows that GE plants do not have the capacity to maintain health. The findings are very concerning, with respect to the ... More >>
