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Get your GE Free submissions in now!
Saturday, 15 April 2006, 12:54 am | GE Free NZ
Get your GE Free submissions in now! Councils throughout New Zealand are rushing to get their Long Term Council Community Plans finished and implemented by June. GE Free NZ is anxious they shouldn't overlook the 'community value' reflected in ... More >>
NZ speaking with a forked tongue over Terminator
Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 11:34 am | GE Free NZ
The decision at The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to fully support continuing a moratorium on Terminator Technology is to be congratulated. More >>
NZ Embassy in London Hit by Terminator Protest
Monday, 27 March 2006, 3:14 pm | GE Free NZ
Protests outside the New Zealand embassy in London show the serious threat to our international standing from the New Zealand government's support for Terminator Technology at the UN Convention on BioDiversity in Brazil. More >>
NZ's Reputation at Risk for Backing Terminator
Friday, 24 March 2006, 10:14 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand's international trading image is fundamentally at risk because of Government support for Terminator technology and Ministerial ignorance of the reasons for most of the world backing a moratorium or ban on Terminator seeds. More >>
GE Recombinant Drugs & Threatening Reactions
Monday, 20 March 2006, 10:56 am | GE Free NZ
It is time that full stock is taken over the hazards and horrors that surround GE recombinant drugs that have genes from multiple animal species. (A recombinant product is created by sourcing DNA from two or more organisms, often from different animal ... More >>
Clean green image could be wrecked
Friday, 17 March 2006, 10:18 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free New Zealand are appealing to the New Zealand government to join the rest of the world in supporting the labelling of genetically engineered organisms traded between nations. More >>
NZFSA is called to test Baby Rice
Thursday, 16 March 2006, 11:12 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ has called for the NZFSA to immediately test Heinz Baby Rice products, (use by date 12th March 2007), for an unapproved strain of genetically engineered (GE) Bt rice. More >>
Government badly briefed on Terminator Technology
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 10:52 am | GE Free NZ
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Wellington meeting ended with doubts as to whether the exchange of views around "Terminator Technology" were listened too. Despite much discussion MFAT, MAF and DOC were not able to appease the concerns ... More >>
NZs Reputation on Line for Backing Terminator Tech
Monday, 27 February 2006, 12:59 am | GE Free NZ
The world community will never be ready for Genetic Use Restriction Techniques (GURTS) or 'Terminator Technology' that is being developed by Monsanto. New Zealand's is putting its reputation at risk by supporting it. More >>
NZ's Backing for "Terminator" seeds Prompts Battle
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 2:19 pm | GE Free NZ
The decision by US company Monsanto to commercialise "Terminator" gene technology to creates sterile seeds that farmers cannot replant, has shocked communities around the world. The move has prompted a global campaign to have Terminator banned (see ... More >>
WTO Forcing Unsafe GE Food on Consumers
Monday, 13 February 2006, 9:54 am | GE Free NZ
The World Trade Organisation- already under pressure for failing to deliver it's trade objectives- could fall apart if it insists on forcing GE foods on countries around the world. More >>
NZ Under Threat Over Terminator Technology
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 10:42 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand's backing for Terminator technology at the meeting of the UN Convention on Biodiversity in Spain has seriously threatened this country's international reputation. More >>
New Study Shows GE foods May Harm Unborn Babies
Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 11:50 am | GE Free NZ
The Ministry of Health must take action to alert pregnant women about the potential risks of GE foods to the wellbeing of their unborn children, in light of yet another study into GE food. More >>
Big Brands Promise Kiwis a GE-Free Christmas
Friday, 23 December 2005, 9:52 am | GE Free NZ
Manufacturers of some of New Zealand’s best-loved brands say they are committed to using GE-free ingredients, and are going the extra mile to ensure their supplies are not contaminated. More >>
WTO Ruling May Force Kiwis to Eat GE Food
Thursday, 22 December 2005, 12:07 am | GE Free NZ
The promise by the New Zealand government that they will protect Kiwis' right to avoid GE foods could be completely undermined by a decision at the WTO expected to go public in early January. More >>
Kellogg's "New Oil" A Turn-off at Breakfast
Monday, 19 December 2005, 8:33 am | GE Free NZ
The announcement by Kellogg's that they will use Monsanto’s 'nutritionally altered', low linoleic soybean oil (Vistive) is a major consumer turn-off and a risk to health. More >>
Government Scuppers "Buy NZ- Made" Campaign
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 8:42 am | GE Free NZ
The Government has undermined what should have been one of the main pillars for a "Buy NZ-made" campaign by refusing to introduce "Country of Origin" labelling which allows consumers to know where their food is produced. More >>
Food Authorities Challenged for Failure to Test GE
Monday, 28 November 2005, 3:30 pm | GE Free NZ
New research showing harm caused by GE food is prompting a challenge to the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) from consumer groups demanding the Authority makes study of genetically engineered food a priority. More >>
ERMA Faces Protest over GE Cows Approval
Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 1:04 pm | GE Free NZ
Protest at ERMA's decision to allow development of GE cows in deliberate contradiction of the Royal Commission on GM will be on the agenda today when ERMA meets with community groups in Auckland. More >>
ERMA Failing Public by Forging Ahead with GE Cows
Monday, 21 November 2005, 10:13 am | GE Free NZ
ERMA's latest GE approval fails the New Zealand public by going against a key recommendation of the Royal Commission on GM that we do not allow food-animals like cows to be used as bioreactors as AgResearch are being allowed to do. More >>
