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GE action update 36 - join in!
Friday, 19 September 2003, 8:46 pm | GE Free NZ
Support for extending the moratorium on the release of genetically engineered organisms is growing rapidly and people are taking to the streets all over the country with a message that the Government can no longer ignore. The weekend has seen the country’s ... More >>
GE crops cause environmental and social problems
Friday, 19 September 2003, 9:49 am | GE Free NZ
Minister Marian Hobbs told the Organic producers rally at parliament this week that Argentina was a wonderful example of co-existence, maintained diversity and harmony between the GE and Organic industry. More >>
GE contamination may impact protocol ratification
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 8:29 am | GE Free NZ
Cases of GE contamination in New Zealand may be weakening the government's determination to ratify the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, a legally binding global agreement that reaffirms the sovereign right of countries to refuse entry of living genetically ... More >>
Public view considered unimportant by Govt
Monday, 15 September 2003, 8:15 am | GE Free NZ
Over 95% of the 10,000 submissions received by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into GM raised serious concerns over genetic engineering, yet many submitters were refused their requests to speak to their submissions. More >>
Organic Sector GE Rally Parliament Grounds
Sunday, 14 September 2003, 1:01 pm | GE Free NZ
As fellow organisations involved with the organic sector of Aotearoa New Zealand you are invited to attend a rally to present to all Members of Parliament a call for reinstatement of the moratorium preventing release of Genetically Engineered ... More >>
GE Action Update 35 - lots to get involved in!!
Friday, 12 September 2003, 11:47 am | GE Free NZ
Well, things are really getting busy now! People are working hard all over the country! Heres some inspiration: all this has happened in the last week and a half! More >>
Parents denied ‘right to know’
Monday, 8 September 2003, 9:22 am | GE Free NZ
Parents denied ‘right to know’ what they are feeding their babies. Call for independent GE food labelling review. More >>
Garlic industry crushed
Thursday, 4 September 2003, 8:23 am | GE Free NZ
Vegfed and the Fruitgrower Associations have been shaken over the release of the latest NZ Trade and Enterprise report, which concludes that China has crushed New Zealand’s garlic trade over the last five years. More >>
Minister says she supports 'informed choice'
Thursday, 28 August 2003, 10:36 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free New Zealand last week asked ministers Marian Hobbs and Annette King for full labelling and proper testing regimes to be implemented immediately beefing up New Zealand GE labelling laws to the same standards as the stringent new EU labelling ... More >>
Call for ban on Genetically Engineered Humans
Wednesday, 20 August 2003, 10:49 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ has described the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology (HART) bill as the most comprehensive and far-reaching eugenic legislation the like of which the world has not seen since Nazi Germany in the 1930’s to the Select Committee on Health ... More >>
Secrecy over GE onions rings alarm bells
Monday, 18 August 2003, 10:17 am | GE Free NZ
Alarm bells are ringing over secrecy surrounding the GE onions, proposed for trialling in New Zealand after ERMA and Crop & Food declined to give information to submitters about the GE constructs. More >>
Gene Patents - profiteers must carry liability too
Wednesday, 13 August 2003, 3:53 pm | GE Free NZ
The issue of patented genes and genetic technologies has long been a contentious issues and something that GE Free New Zealand have consistently warned of in our submissions. More >>
Biotech Industry could be labelled Terrorists
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 8:44 am | GE Free NZ
The new Terror Bill could make companies and individuals pushing for GE release in New Zealand liable to prosecution as terrorists. Politicians have commented that so-called "Anti-GE" protesters could be the first target of the Crimes ... More >>
ERMA urged to support Moratorium on GE-release
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 8:42 am | GE Free NZ
The chair and members of the Environmental Risk Management Authority meeting in Auckland today were urged to get behind New Zealand communities and local and international food companies to support an extension of the moratorium on GE commercial release. More >>
Government Must Quit Unethical Attack on EU at WTO
Monday, 11 August 2003, 12:17 am | GE Free NZ
It is unethical for the New Zealand government to be backing the US administration’s case against the European Union aimed at forcing consumers to accept GM foods. More >>
Finding Alternative Seed Source is NOT impossible
Friday, 8 August 2003, 3:41 pm | GE Free NZ
The incident of contamination around Marlborough, Gisborne and Canterbury should be of concern to farmers selling their products overseas. The corn sold both for human and animal feed will compromise meat and milk exports as well as any corn exports. ... More >>
Meacher warns select committee of GE risks
Thursday, 7 August 2003, 10:28 am | GE Free NZ
Today in the Education and Science Select committee, Michael Meacher ex minister of environment gave evidence for Greenpeace warning that co-existence of GE and conventional crops is impossible. More >>
ACT and Aliens back Life Sciences Push on GE
Friday, 1 August 2003, 3:22 pm | GE Free NZ
The Raelian Movement and ACT have come out swinging for the Life Sciences Network in demanding people allow GE release and contamination of the environment. About 300 naked Raelians are reported by the Express paper ( 30 July) to be staging a naked ... More >>
Monsanto's safety tests riddled with flaws
Friday, 1 August 2003, 11:33 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free (NZ) in food and environment is asking the Minister of Health, Annette King, to authorise the withdrawal of all GE foods already on the New Zealand market, following renewed concerns about their impact on public health. More >>
Prince Charles joins GE-Free campaign
Friday, 1 August 2003, 7:53 am | GE Free NZ
The declaration by Prince Charles that Britain should remain GE-Free is welcome news to the 80% of New Zealanders who want the preservation of GE-Free food production in this country. More >>
