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School children vulnerable to biotech industry PR
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 2:35 pm | GE Free NZ
The government's plan to promote Biotechnology to schoolchildren would be welcomed by GE-Free NZ in Food and Environment if the government could show a commitment to genuine science and the precautionary principle. More >>
ERMA refuses soil-testing despite more GE-Sheep
Friday, 23 May 2003, 9:30 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free New Zealand in Food and Environment have concerns that ERMA, (the Environmental Risk Management Authority) are failing to ensure any research into soil contamination and HGT ( Horizontal Gene Transfer) from a flock of GE sheep despite signals that ... More >>
GM contaminates organic farms
Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 2:53 pm | GE Free NZ
A survey of farmers has confirmed fears that GE constructs are contaminating conventionally-grown and organic foods. The findings are alarming as they confirm that commercial release of GE organisms will eventually destroy all GE-Free production and any choice to ... More >>
Support Grows for Govt to Withdraw from WTO case
Thursday, 15 May 2003, 4:48 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ (in food and environment) is adding its support to calls from throughout New Zealand demanding the Government withdraw from the WTO complaint aimed at forcing GM on the worlds consumers. More >>
Soil and Health call for an organic New Zealand
Thursday, 15 May 2003, 4:36 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ supports the vision for the future of NZ, the Soil and Health mandate resulting from their recent conference. More >>
NZ Govt’s Anti-EU Action Misguided
Thursday, 15 May 2003, 8:06 am | GE Free NZ
The New Zealand government's decision to join with the US in taking the European Union to the WTO over its policies on GM foods is a misguided step that will unravel the high-standing of the New Zealand Brand internationally. More >>
Fears Government is abandoning ‘GE-Free’ options
Tuesday, 13 May 2003, 8:31 am | GE Free NZ
Fear that Government is abandoning ‘GE-Free’ options as consumers mark anniversary of supermarket protests More >>
Scientists divided over Bio-Pharming ‘nightmare’
Friday, 9 May 2003, 8:56 am | GE Free NZ
There is a growing division within the scientific community over the government’s backing of biotechnology industry and its plans to promote “Pharming” of GE plants and animals in this country. More >>
Continuing Opposition To GM Foods
Friday, 2 May 2003, 10:54 am | GE Free NZ
The British public is still strongly opposed to Genetically Modified (GM) foods, according to new research by the MORI Social Research Institute. More >>
3 New Reports back BERL warning
Friday, 2 May 2003, 10:51 am | GE Free NZ
On the eve of the government's introduction to Parliament of legislation allowing GE release from October, three international studies show that that government policy is taking New Zealand in the wrong direction. More >>
Review of GM regulation prompted by US warnings
Thursday, 1 May 2003, 3:11 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ ( in food and environment) are calling on ANZFA and ERMA to independently reassess and update their segregation, liability and safety protocols in the light of warnings from overseas that regulation of "approved GM " is failing. More >>
Consumers deceived by hidden GE ingredients
Monday, 28 April 2003, 8:45 am | GE Free NZ
Consumers deceived by hidden GE ingredients GE Free NZ ( in food and environment) want all foods sourced from GE organisms to be labelled as such. At the moment producers are not required to label foods sourced from GE products if they contain less than ... More >>
Economic policy demands GM moratorium extension
Wednesday, 23 April 2003, 8:55 am | GE Free NZ
The governments' own economic policies and its decision to follow the Royal Commission's advice to " preserve opportunities" will require it to extend the moratorium on GM commercial release. But developments in contained and ethical uses of gene ... More >>
GE Free NZ in food and environment
Friday, 11 April 2003, 5:26 pm | GE Free NZ
Proposals to use semen from cloned bulls to sire cows whose milk will then be sold to Fonterra threaten New Zealand's international reputation. More >>
Trans-Tasman GE deal has a nasty smell
Friday, 11 April 2003, 5:08 pm | GE Free NZ
Trans-Tasman GE deal has a nasty smell. Is NZ being pushed as a new "experimental" lab? More >>
Government undermines power of Brand New Zealand
Friday, 11 April 2003, 9:45 am | GE Free NZ
Reports that the government is actively opposing the introduction of county-of-origin labelling is an alarming sign of government mis-management of the New Zealand Brand. More >>
Farmers cast doubt on GE Pharm crops
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 9:20 am | GE Free NZ
Efforts by Federated Farmers in Australia and New Zealand to promote GE crops are failing to gain traction with farmers who are expressing serious doubts about the supposed benefits of commercialising GE crops. More >>
Government should help fund MADGE challenge
Friday, 4 April 2003, 2:17 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free (NZ) says Government should help fund MADGE challenge to GE cows GE Free (NZ) supports the decision of MADGE to seek a judicial review of the process approving new GE cows at Ruakura, and believe there is widespread public support for the move. ... More >>
Threat to "Brand New Zealand"
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 2:26 pm | GE Free NZ
The push to introduce GE trees- already the subject of field trials in New Zealand threatens New Zealand exports to the global market and will backfire on New Zealand's timber industry as customers reject GM as an unsustainable threat to the environment. More >>
"GM seeds planted to save jobs"
Friday, 28 March 2003, 4:47 pm | GE Free NZ
The Parliamentary Select committee investigating the Corngate affair has been told that the government may have justified proceeding with the planting of suspected GE contaminated corn in order to save jobs that might have been lost if the planting ... More >>
