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GE Animals Case Heads Back To Court
Monday, 25 January 2010, 11:34 am | GE Free NZ
AgResearch and GE Free NZ in food and environment are set to go to the Court of Appeal in Wellington on Tuesday 26th January in Court Room 1. GE Free NZ took High Court action after AgResearch made four applications seeking to develop, import and go ... More >>
UK Shops Won't Take NZ animal-product Fed GM Grass
Friday, 15 January 2010, 9:37 am | GE Free NZ
Major supermarkets overseas, including British chains Marks and Spencer’s and Sainsbury’s, would shun New Zealand products made using Genetically Modified grass being developed by AgResearch. AgResearch’s development of GM grass puts New Zealand food exporters ... More >>
Food Authorities Playing Russian Roulette
Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 9:45 am | GE Free NZ
The refusal of the trans-Tasman Food Standards Australia New Zealand Authority (FSANZ) to reassess the risks of three GE corn varieties found to cause harm is the result of bias and personal agendas rather than sound science. Following publication of ... More >>
Three Variants of Toxic Maize Could Be In NZ
Monday, 21 December 2009, 10:49 am | GE Free NZ
All three of the GM maize variants recently discovered to be toxic in long-term tests have been approved for sale by authorities in New Zealand and Australia. The three types of maize: MON810, MON863 and NK603, are all listed as "approved" in the official ... More >>
Will New Zealand burn while ERMA fiddles?
Sunday, 6 December 2009, 1:21 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ in Food and Environment understands that officials at the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) have been going "under the radar" and rubber-stamping amendments to regulatory approvals at the GM facilities of both AgResearch ... More >>
GE trial facilities must be shut down
Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 2:45 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ in Food and Environment is calling for the immediate closure of all GE trial facilities at the Plant and Food sites following another major breach of regulatory controls. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Biosecurity (MAFBNZ) discovery ... More >>
Support for Inghams from An Unlikely Source!
Saturday, 21 November 2009, 12:33 pm | GE Free NZ
Chicken-producer Inghams, under fire for misleading consumers is being offered support from a most unlikely source: GE free NZ (in food and environment). More >>
Application for GE animals obscures serious threat
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 9:53 am | GE Free NZ
The latest AgResearch application to The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) for GE animals (ERMA200223) has a mind-boggling 700 page dictionary list of over 20000 different genetic materials sourced from almost every living disease producing ... More >>
Submissions On New GE Animals Leave Public In Dark
Monday, 9 November 2009, 9:51 am | GE Free NZ
ERMA is calling for submissions from the public on a new AgResearch application (ERMA200223) to create genetically engineered sheep, cattle and goats in the outdoor facility at Ruakura, Hamilton.This application seeks to create a range of genetically ... More >>
NZ Exports and Health at Risk from GE Corn
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10:44 am | GE Free NZ
Calls for New Zealand Food Authorities to withdraw approval of a new form of GE corn demands urgent action, or risks harming New Zealanders and the New Zealand quality brand name. As well as impacting consumers directly, New Zealand exports could be ... More >>
NZ Exports and Health at Risk from GE Corn
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 1:06 pm | GE Free NZ
Calls for New Zealand Food Authorities to withdraw approval of a new form of GE corn demands urgent action, or risks harming New Zealanders and the New Zealand quality brand name. More >>
GE animal Application Gets Re-assessment
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 9:45 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free is angered over ERMA's rapid approval of an application to genetically engineer (GE) a large range of animals including Cats and Dogs. The application GMD09011 has the same flaws as the four-part applications by AgResearch that a High Court found ... More >>
NZ Courts Disaster With GE Fodder Crops
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 10:53 am | GE Free NZ
The AgResearch announcement that they are developing GE fodder crops to contain high levels of fats and potentially reduce methane emissions, is short sighted and promotes a disasterous mono-culture that must be stopped. More >>
Dr. Neil Macgregor’s- A life of integrity
Monday, 21 September 2009, 9:40 am | GE Free NZ
“We would like to extend our sympathy to the family of Dr Neil Macgregor at this time. Dr Neil Macgregor was a well respected scientist and his death has left a great void in the scientific community that will be difficult to fill. He was always willing ... More >>
Farmers Already Have Better Options than GE Fodder
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 1:41 pm | GE Free NZ
"Farmers and Producer Boards should look to existing forage plant, livestock, and agricultural systems already proven to be able to reduce methane emissions rather than heed AgResearch's calls for genetically engineered (GE) fodder crops" ... More >>
NZ Agriculture Threatened by GE Animal Fodder
Monday, 20 July 2009, 10:24 am | GE Free NZ
The threat to New Zealand from the introduction of genetically engineered (GE) fodder crops is both economic and environmental, and demands the government intervenes to prevent it. Directly or indirectly our whole economy benefits from the protection ... More >>
GE Animal Appeal Is Against the National Interest
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 3:54 pm | GE Free NZ
It is a travesty that public money will be used to fund the appeal against the High Court ruling which invalidated four applications for indefinite, nation-wide commercialisation of GE animals. More >>
MAF fails to recommend penalties
Monday, 29 June 2009, 3:46 pm | GE Free NZ
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) have finalized their report on the irresponsible breaches at the site of a GE Brassica trial [1]. The release of the report is yet to come. Soon after the breach was originally discovered, GE-Free NZ ... More >>
GM animal applications invalid – appeal upheld
Sunday, 7 June 2009, 1:03 pm | GE Free NZ
In a precedent setting case, the High Court has upheld the appeal by GE Free NZ in Food and Environment against ERMA and AgResearch. More >>
GM Crop Failure a Cautionary Warning For Farmers
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 9:19 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand farmers must learn from the experience of farmers overseas and resist pressure to weaken regulations around the safety of genetically engineered organisms (GEO’s), from groups promoting their release. Thousands of people are now facing ... More >>
