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EU Report Shows Government Must Act Now
Friday, 31 May 2002, 11:32 am | GE Free NZ
The government easy as you go attitude to genetic engineering is fast proving outdated says GE Free New Zealand in Food and Environment. Their reliance on the Royal Commission has resulted in the government ignoring more recent data concerning GE. More >>
Long History Of Industry Deception
Friday, 31 May 2002, 10:11 am | GE Free NZ
Life Science Lobby's Attack On Consumer Advocate Part Of Long History Of Industry Deception More >>
HortResearch slammed over misleading GM study
Tuesday, 28 May 2002, 7:44 pm | GE Free NZ
A new study by HortResearch into consumer attitudes to GM food is being criticised as flawed and potentially misleading and may become the subject of a formal complaint. More >>
Labour Must Come Clean On GE Plans
Tuesday, 28 May 2002, 10:14 am | GE Free NZ
There is suspicion that US lobbying, support for farm subsidies and financing of PR to promote GE, may be linked to Labours support for GE releases. Labour seem to be refusing to listen to evidence from European and Mexican governments as to what ... More >>
Call for MAF to test all imports of seeds
Monday, 27 May 2002, 10:00 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free New Zealand in Food and Environment call for MAF to test all imports of seeds with a chance of GE contamination. More >>
New GE Legislation Spells Doom For Organic Food
Thursday, 23 May 2002, 11:51 am | GE Free NZ
GE-Free NZ (in food and environment) reject the government's claims that amendments to the HSNO act reflect the Royal Commission's findings. One of the main Commission recommendations- to preserve our opportunities - is being abandoned, at least in ... More >>
GE Free NZ support Consumer Commission's concerns
Tuesday, 21 May 2002, 5:15 pm | GE Free NZ
GE Free New Zealand in Food and Environment support Consumer Commission's concern over misleading practices. More >>
Call for Labour delegates to back 5-yr moratorium
Monday, 20 May 2002, 4:57 pm | GE Free NZ
Call for Labour delegates to back 5-year moratorium on GE releases- may prompt internal strife More >>
Protesters challenge Lab. for 5-year GE moratorium
Friday, 17 May 2002, 7:36 pm | GE Free NZ
The Labour party's decision to support the lapse of the moratorium on GE releases in October 2003 is unconscionable. More >>
Plans For GE Cows Must Go To Bio Ethics Council
Wednesday, 15 May 2002, 3:13 pm | GE Free NZ
The new proposal from AgResearch to create transgenic cattle must be referred to the Bio Ethics Council before ERMA approves the application. More >>
Consumers welcome GE food guide, right to choose
Tuesday, 14 May 2002, 7:04 am | GE Free NZ
Consumers are welcoming the new Greenpeace food guide as allowing people to exercise their basic right to choose , and to influence the market with their spending power. More >>
Australian Government Attempts Sabotage
Sunday, 12 May 2002, 1:45 pm | GE Free NZ
New Zealand’s and Australia’s GE food labelling system risks being sabotaged by the Australian Federal Government’s moves to undermine it in Codex international negotiations according to the Australian Consumers' Association who last week described the delegation's ... More >>
Government Funding Way Off Track
Friday, 10 May 2002, 11:51 am | GE Free NZ
A message has gone to the ministers responsible for public funding through the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology; asking for justification of the focus on biotech funding at the expense of research into more sustainable farming practices, the limited ... More >>
Farm Subsidies Shore Up GE Farmer's Losses
Wednesday, 8 May 2002, 3:24 pm | GE Free NZ
US farmers have been given massive government handouts again this year to ensure GE crops continue to be grown. More >>
MAF GE Seed Regime Will Be No Guarantee
Tuesday, 7 May 2002, 9:52 am | GE Free NZ
MAF GE Seed Regime Will Be No Guarantee - Calls For A Ban On Seed Imports From Countries Where GE Crops Are Grown. It is timely that MAF is issuing a discussion paper on GE seeds, but there are concerns that a 0.1% threshold of GE contamination is being ... More >>
Choice At Risk From International Food Standards
Monday, 6 May 2002, 10:42 am | GE Free NZ
“It is the consumer's right to choose to avoid food made using a particular process that is being denied. "Modern Biotechbology" is a generic term that obscures the process. It is like denying Jewish people to eat Kosher food, or Muslims to eat ... More >>
Minister Must Call In Unethical GM Cows Experiment
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 12:20 pm | GE Free NZ
Genetic engineering experiments on cows being proposed by AgResearch are unethical, and must go before the Bioethics Council. More >>
The "End Of Consumer Choice" Over GE
Monday, 29 April 2002, 4:18 pm | GE Free NZ
The Government's promise to allow consumer choice by requiring labelling of GM food may be meaningless if plans before the global food authority go ahead. More >>
'Coexistence' Or The End Of GM In NZ?-
Tuesday, 23 April 2002, 11:34 pm | GE Free NZ
by Jon Carapiet- spokesperson for GE-Free NZ (in food and environment) Prepared for the 'Life Sciences Network' / NZ Journalist Training Organisation workshop, Wellington 23 April 2002 More >>
Insurers Refuse Cover For GE Experiments
Monday, 22 April 2002, 2:56 pm | GE Free NZ
The willingness of an insurance company to cover AgResearch against sabotage and terrorism is a signal that the risks of such actions are reasonably low compared to the risks to the environment of genetically modified organisms, which are at present ... More >>
