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AgResearch Must Stop Its GE Projects
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 11:14 am | Soil and Health Association
AgResearch's decision to stop cloning animals at its genetic engineering (GE) facility due to animal welfare concerns, should also mean an end to its cruel stem cell method of raising GE animals, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. ... More >>
Methyl Bromide Research Fails To Consider Port Communities
Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 2:19 pm | Soil and Health Association
The Soil & Health Association joins Environment Minister Nick Smith in welcoming the $2.5 million Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) funding, for applied research into alternatives to log fumigation with methyl bromide, and the release of the neurotoxic ... More >>
100% Pure USA Drive Towards New Zealand As A GE Nation
Monday, 10 January 2011, 9:37 am | Soil and Health Association
Governments phasing out of the winning 100% Pure New Zealand brand, while putting genetic engineering (GE) zealot Dr William Rolleston as Chair of Innovation and also on the Science board of the new Ministry Of Science and Innovation, is a clear sign ... More >>
ERMA Decision Making Challenged Again
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 10:16 am | Soil and Health Association
ERMA's loose GE decision making is again being challenged in the High Court according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ (Soil & Health - Organic NZ). More >>
Support for GE Trees Contradicts Clean Green Image
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 9:00 am | Soil and Health Association
Todays Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) hearing at the Novotel Hotel in Rotorua to consider the application by Crown Research Institute Scion to field trial thousands of genetically engineered (GE) trees is a farce according to the ... More >>
NZ Food Still Stacked With Pesticides
Wednesday, 27 October 2010, 11:14 am | Soil and Health Association
The Soil & Health Association – Organic NZ and the Pesticide Action Network Aotearoa NZ are calling for an attitude change in New Zealand’s food safety regulators following two very similar pesticide residue result reports in 3 months, and, despite evidence ... More >>
Jeanette Fitzsimons back in NZ for speaking tour
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 10:46 am | Soil and Health Association
Following retirement from Parliament and three months travel in Europe, Jeanette Fitzsimons has returned to a role as Patron of the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. At her first post travel speaking event open to the general public, this ... More >>
Funding Should Be A Great Organic Opportunity
Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 9:43 am | Soil and Health Association
The $321 million Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) funding announced yesterday would have significant potential for genuine sustainability and Brand New Zealand, if organic and biological farming systems were the focus of the investment, however if focus ... More >>
GE Food Ingredients Need Immediate Investigation
Monday, 16 August 2010, 10:25 am | Soil and Health Association
News today from GE Free NZ shows that a complex pesticide riddled genetically engineered (GE) corn, Smartstax, is being allowed into the New Zealand food supply without assessment by food regulators.(1) More >>
New Zealand Animal Cloning Needs To Stop
Monday, 9 August 2010, 9:05 am | Soil and Health Association
New Zealand needs a ban on animal cloning, food from cloned animals and a verification process put in for imported foods to ensure compliance for New Zealand consumers, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. More >>
Organic Dairy Farmers Don’t Abort Calves
Monday, 2 August 2010, 10:50 am | Soil and Health Association
Unlike the 200,000 cows callously induced to bring cow herds into milking at the same time, certified organic herds are never at risk of such practices according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. More >>
Something Smells At Scion’s GE Tree Site
Monday, 12 July 2010, 1:49 pm | Soil and Health Association
The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) has the confidence of crown forest research institute Scion to such a degree that Scion is prepared to spend many thousands of tax payers dollars building new GE field trial space even before an application ... More >>
GE Does Not Belong In Clean Green 100% Pure NZ
Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 9:15 am | Soil and Health Association
With a continued effort towards genetically engineering New Zealand pasture plants and developing herds of genetically engineered (GE) animals, AgResearch appears to miss the meaning of clean green 100% Pure, according to the Soil & Health Association ... More >>
New Zealand Exporters Cheating India
Friday, 11 June 2010, 9:56 am | Soil and Health Association
Methyl bromide fumigation of logs for India at Picton this weekend is not expected to meet phytosanitary requirements due to cold temperatures and so unnecessarily risks the health of the community and environment, according to the Soil & Health ... More >>
Animal Liberators' EffortsJustified
Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 11:07 am | Soil and Health Association
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) is to be congratulated for successfully prosecuting a poultry farmer for animal welfare offences, but should be exposing other cruel poultry farmers, according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ. More >>
USA GE Trees Approval Will Reflect On NZ
Friday, 14 May 2010, 10:08 am | Soil and Health Association
The approval by the United States GE regulator for 260,000 New Zealand raised genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees for 28 field trials through seven US states is not something for New Zealand to be proud of, according to the Soil & Health Association ... More >>
Picton Methyl Bromide Gas Release Risky Again
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 2:13 pm | Soil and Health Association
The Picton community was tonight again at risk of methyl bromide fumigation gas exposure, as log fumigators in Shakespeare Bay released tons of the neurotoxic gas with light breeze flowing onto Picton according to eyewitnesses. More >>
Cruel experiments just the tip of the iceberg
Monday, 3 May 2010, 9:55 am | Soil and Health Association
New revelations of cruel outcomes on experimental genetically engineered (GE) calves at AgResearch's GE facility are likely to be just the tip of the iceberg according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ. More >>
GE trial challenge welcomed
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 10:10 am | Soil and Health Association
The Soil & Health Association is pleased the Supreme Court is to consider the case brought by GE Free NZ against the Environmental Risk Management Authority’s (ERMA) acceptance of four of AgResearch’s extremely broad ranging GE animal applications. More >>
Muesli – not as healthy as it seems
Monday, 26 April 2010, 9:08 am | Soil and Health Association
The latest results from the New Zealand Food Safety Authority’s (NZFSA) Total Diet Survey raise concerns about the number of pesticides being found in muesli. More >>
