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Rally In Support Of A GE-Free Environment
Friday, 31 August 2001, 2:08 pm | GE Free NZ
New Zealanders Rally In Support Of A GE-Free Environment As Government Warned "Listen To The People." More >>
Government urged to support Sri Lanka in GE row
Wednesday, 29 August 2001, 7:48 pm | GE Free NZ
GE- Free NZ is calling on the New Zealand government to support Sri Lanka against threats of WTO (World Trade Organisation) sanctions over their ban on genetically engineered food. More >>
Manufacturers Say GE Food Safe, Questions Raised
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 3:27 pm | GE Free NZ
Report by Steven Druker, US public interest attorney who appeared before the Royal Commission in January, as an expert witness for GE Free New Zealand in Food and Environment, comments on flawed Royal Commission report in respect of genetically modified foods. More >>
Public Opinion Supports GE Free Environment & Food
Tuesday, 28 August 2001, 12:37 am | GE Free NZ
The realisation by government of the strength of feeling amongst New Zealanders against experiments outside the lab has triggered a stay for the voluntary moratorium and a proposed extension for 2-5 years on commercial growing. After the ailing biotech ... More >>
Scrambled Soybeans Give Hint Of Monitoring Madness
Monday, 20 August 2001, 11:17 am | GE Free NZ
Scrambled Soybeans Give Hint Of Monitoring Madness To Come Agrochemical giant, Monsanto's GE soy got some bad press in the New York Times this week, as unidentified DNA was found to be lurking in their patented products. Dr. Marc De Loose of the Centre for ... More >>
Sperm Gets Cold Shoulder
Friday, 3 August 2001, 10:56 am | GE Free NZ
Now GE may cause the inability of the sperm to fuse with the egg. Genetically modified (GM) carrots and potatoes have been imported into NZ, these vegetables contain an unstable transgene containing a zona pellucida (ZP) antigen and a LT-B protein to ... More >>
Death knell for NZ's quality primary production
Tuesday, 31 July 2001, 8:28 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand public opinion ignored, commission fails to provide leadership or vision. GE Free New Zealand calls for public referendum. More >>
People Gather For A Ge-Free Nation
Friday, 27 July 2001, 11:47 am | GE Free NZ
July 27: At 12 noon, in more than 42* towns and cities across the country, New Zealanders are gathering to show the Government they want a GE-Free nation. The nationwide gatherings are being held to mark the handover of the recommendations of the Royal Commission ... More >>
US Out Of Step With 'Civil' Society Again
Thursday, 26 July 2001, 4:25 pm | GE Free NZ
US refusal to agree on draft accord on biological weapons of mass destruction exposes its own commercial interests in patented pathogenic organisms. More >>
Nationwide Rally For A GE-Free Nation
Thursday, 26 July 2001, 11:52 am | GE Free NZ
A nationwide rally in support of a GE-Free Nation will mark the handing over of the long-awaited report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Genetic Modification to the Government. More >>
MPs Get Free Lunch
Monday, 23 July 2001, 11:26 am | GE Free NZ
Delicious organic apples in green and red gift boxes arrived at Parliament buildings today. A free lunch for MPs with a strong message from GE Free NZ Hawke’s Bay branch. More >>
MPs get free lunch
Thursday, 19 July 2001, 2:38 pm | GE Free NZ
Delicious organic apples in green and red gift boxes arrived at Parliament buildings today. A free lunch for MPs with a strong message from GE Free NZ Hawke’s Bay branch. More >>
Guarantees Do Not Guarantee GE Free Sweetcorn
Tuesday, 17 July 2001, 5:57 pm | GE Free NZ
As insurance companies raised the issue of GE crop contamination and liability issues at their conference in Wellington yesterday, New Zealanders may have been unknowingly purchasing GE contaminated seeds from their favourite store the Warehouse. More >>
27th July-Now Or Never
Tuesday, 17 July 2001, 10:03 am | GE Free NZ
-- What does GE-Free mean? -- GE-Free means that no genetically engineered organisms are released into our environment or the food chain, and that any experimentation or product development of genetically engineered organisms is confined to the laboratory. More >>
Free For All Or Biological Serfdom?
Thursday, 28 June 2001, 9:58 am | GE Free NZ
Italy hosts FAO meeting, to discuss an international undertaking (IU) to retain 40-50 world crops in the public domain. 100 or more crops important for food security were identified in the FAO's at the 1996 State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources ... More >>
Bio-Devastation Conference Actions Planned
Monday, 25 June 2001, 9:05 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ supports actions around the world as biotech conference starts in San Diego. More >>
Shoddy Food Safety Standards - Another Food Scare
Friday, 22 June 2001, 2:07 pm | GE Free NZ
The newest food scare surrounding soya sauce products containing cancer causing agents, demonstrates the importance of strict food safety standards. The recently instigated UK Food safety board identified these problems yesterday, on the same ... More >>
Contaminated Seeds Imports Compromise Exports
Thursday, 21 June 2001, 9:39 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ are pleased to see that GM contamination is being addressed by the Ministry of Environment but believe that ALL seeds imported from regions where GM contamination is known to be a problem should be tested. The protocol, announced today, will apply ... More >>
Scores of foetuses abort - 3 sad calves are born
Wednesday, 13 June 2001, 8:35 am | GE Free NZ
Almost all of the genetically engineered foetuses, in an AgResearch experiment in Hamilton, New Zealand, designed to insert a human myelin gene into milk-producing cows, have aborted. Only three calves, of the sixty promised, are believed to have ... More >>
NZ Sovereignty On Food Standards Lost To Aussies
Wednesday, 6 June 2001, 8:53 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ support Annette King's formal complaint to Australian government after the removal of New Zealander's sovereign right to influence food standard legislation. More >>
