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Deceptive New Bill Creates Ministerial Dictatorship
Monday, 7 March 2016, 10:40 am | GE Free NZ
GE-Free NZ is asking the Local Government and Environment Select Committee to review the new amendments in the Resource Legislation Amendments Bill which effectively create a new power structure by stealth. More >>
Farmers Quit, Feel Betrayed by Federated Farmers Leadership
Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 10:19 am | GE Free NZ
Some farmers are resigning from their main national organisation Federated Farmers due to the increasingly aggressive stance taken by their leaders to push genetically modified organisms (GMO). More >>
Fed Farmers Misguided in Push For GMOs
Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 3:29 pm | GE Free NZ
The High Court appeal by Federated Farmers against local level oversight of GMOs is misguided and damaging to New Zealand's future export success. More >>
FSANZ approval dangerous
Monday, 30 November 2015, 10:02 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ In Food And Environment Inc. PO Box 13402, Wellington, NZ 27/11/2015 More >>
GE Free New Zealand
Thursday, 19 November 2015, 9:52 am | GE Free NZ
NZ food authorities have failed to properly assess the safety of co-additives used with the pesticides in scores of GE pesticide-resistant foods. The European Food Safety Authority has supported the findings of a recently published study by Mesnage ... More >>
Environment Requires Containment of GE Vaccine Experiment
Monday, 2 November 2015, 2:40 pm | GE Free NZ
Trials of a new GE vaccine must be fully contained. The experiments must not be used as an excuse to weaken regulation of GE or to push through environmental release of other GMOs in New Zealand. More >>
Report Uncovers Dismal Record of GE Animal Experiments in New Zealand
Friday, 23 October 2015, 10:21 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ 's report on "GE Animals in New Zealand: the first fifteen years, 2000 - 2015”, documents the world's first field trials of transgenic cows, bred to express one of six transgenic protein traits in milk for use as bio-pharmaceutical ... More >>
NZ's Marketing Difference for Exports Jeopardised by TPPA
Monday, 12 October 2015, 8:47 am | GE Free NZ
The text of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is to be released in the next 30 days, but an outline on agricultural products shows New Zealand's marketing difference underpinning our exports could be lost in the deal. More >>
A victory for bees
Monday, 14 September 2015, 8:38 am | GE Free NZ
A victory for bees The US Appeal court has cancelled the approval for the Dow Agrosciences chemical Sulfoxaflor, a neonicotinoid, as it is highly toxic to bees. The ruling said “the federal regulators erred in allowing the insecticide onto the market.” ... More >>
Maize spill shows risks of GE seed escape
Monday, 31 August 2015, 9:07 am | GE Free NZ
New Zealand’s valuable GE-free status is under threat from biosecurity breaches, says the Soil & Health Association. Two spills in New Plymouth last week of maize imported from the USA show how it’s possible for genetically engineered seed to ... More >>
Ministry of Primary Industries must test for GE in shipments
Thursday, 27 August 2015, 12:00 pm | GE Free NZ
The two large spillages of corn [1] imported from the USA are not only a biosecurity threat but if they contain viable genetically engineered (GE) seeds then this is also an illegal shipment and poses a direct threat to our GE Free status. The Ministry ... More >>
MPI receives 16,000 submissions on NES-PF
Thursday, 13 August 2015, 9:01 pm | GE Free NZ
The Ministry of Primary Industries has received over 16,550 submissions and petitions on the National Environment Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF). All 16,000 submissions recommended the deletion of the clauses, inserted at the 11 hour, on ... More >>
Will GE Trees bring economic suicide?
Monday, 27 July 2015, 10:06 am | GE Free NZ
The Ministry of Primary industries is in its final consultation meetings in the South Island and is now calling for submissions* on the National Environmental Standards on Plantation Forestry (NES-PF) [1]. The NES-PF has added a late clause that makes ... More >>
National Environmental Standards - a National train wreck
Tuesday, 7 July 2015, 11:47 am | GE Free NZ
The National Environmental Standards on plantation Forestry (NES-PF) [1] community meetings are a national train wreck. More >>
Addressing the Science?
Friday, 3 July 2015, 11:39 am | GE Free NZ
Will Federated Farmers new “Reclaiming choice” lobby groups look at the science that is not provided by industry? More >>
Hazardous changes to New Organisms Act
Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 9:37 am | GE Free NZ
Hazardous changes to New Organisms Act. The National Government and Treasury are under pressure from Federated Farmers, pro LifeSciences board, to loosen all precautions around genetically engineered organisms as legislated in the Hazardous Substances ... More >>
Are cattle dying from a GE sweet beet?
Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 10:31 am | GE Free NZ
Cattle deaths are again being reported in Southland due to a new variety of fodder beet [1], and DairyNZ is asking for caution over the transition from the grazing of fodder beets and brassica [2]. This follows on from cattle deaths from Herbicide ... More >>
Sri Lanka bans Glyphosate imports
Monday, 25 May 2015, 3:23 pm | GE Free NZ
The President of Sri Lanka has banned the importation of glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) [1] due to the increased incidence of chronic kidney disease associated with the use of these glyphosate formulations. Argentina [2] has also published evidence ... More >>
Communities have a right to say "No to GMO"
Monday, 18 May 2015, 9:06 am | GE Free NZ
GE Free NZ would like to congratulate Whangarei District Council, GE Free Northland, Taitokerau mana whenua, Soil & Health Association on the successful outcome of their Environment Court case. [1]. The Environment Court decision has determined ... More >>
Strong Support for Clarification of GMO Council Jurisdiction
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 9:42 am | GE Free NZ
On Friday, 24 April GE Free Northland and the Soil & Health Association of NZ with 19 other 274 parties sought clarification in the Environment Court on whether there is jurisdiction in the Resource Management Act for local control of outdoor ... More >>
