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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 >>
Coalition Protests Against Gas Release
Friday, 23 April 2010, 9:22 am | Soil and Health Association
Protests beginning in Picton Friday April 23 against toxic methyl bromide fumigant gas being released into the environment are being co-ordinated nationally in respect of Workers Memorial Day on April 28. Guardians of the Sounds, Soil & Health Association ... More >>
AgResearch Decision Smells of Political Influence
Friday, 16 April 2010, 12:56 pm | Soil and Health Association
The main benefactor of the Environmental Risk Management Authority’s (ERMA) decision to allow the application by Crown Research Institute AgResearch a carte blanche application to genetically engineer (GE) cattle, sheep and goats using a huge range of E.coli ... More >>
New Pro-1080 Alliance Lacks Sustainability Vision
Monday, 12 April 2010, 9:46 am | Soil and Health Association
New Pro-1080 Alliance Lacks Sustainability Vision The new pro-1080 animal toxin alliance led by Forest & Bird and Federated Farmers lacks a vision of a truly sustainable clean green 100% Pure New Zealand according to the Soil & Health ... More >>
Herbicides and 1080 A National Issue
Monday, 8 March 2010, 10:03 am | Soil and Health Association
The community concern over aerial spraying at Te Henga, near Bethells Beach, followed by a 1080 debacle in Taranaki is indicative of a much wider issue; the extra heavy use of chemicals throughout New Zealand and the lack of vision for a pesticide free ... More >>
Conflict of Interest By GE Animals Hearing Chair.
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 9:41 am | Soil and Health Association
“We have to be aggressive about getting the biotechnology out onto the farm where it can do the most good. Part of the gains to be made are included in making them quickly.” More >>
Animal Cruelty Laws Must To Consider 1080 Effects
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 9:46 am | Soil and Health Association
The Government needs to include the wilful cruelty associated of 1080 drops when considering the animal welfare bill the National caucus has agreed to fast track, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. More >>
Bethells Spraying Risks Environment
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 4:49 pm | Soil and Health Association
The intended helicopter spraying of crack willow with herbicide over 23 ha of wetland at Te Henga, near Bethells Beach, is another example of New Zealand’s use of crude chemical solutions without deep understanding of environmental risks, according to ... More >>
NGO’s call for Diet drink's aspartame to be dumped
Monday, 11 January 2010, 11:00 am | Soil and Health Association
NGO’s call for Diet drink's aspartame to be dumped in favour of natural sweeteners. Safe food campaigning NGO’s are once again calling for drinks and foods containing artificial sweeteners to be taken out of supermarket trolleys and 2010 school tuck-shops. ... More >>
Clean Up Lincoln Countryside and Clean Out GE Labs
Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 10:39 am | Soil and Health Association
Leakage of GE material from a Plant & Food Research containment facility should come as no surprise, but be a wake up call to Government that a major GE catastrophe is just a matter of time, according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ. More >>
Approach To Methyl Bromide Branded Reckless
Friday, 6 November 2009, 1:16 pm | Soil and Health Association
Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ 6 November 2009 More >>
Pesticide Residues Show Need For Organics
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 3:40 pm | Soil and Health Association
Pesticide residues in the New Zealand diet are being downplayed by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA), according to two advocacy groups. The comments of the Soil & Health Association of NZ and of Pesticide Action Network Aotearoa New ... More >>
Federated Farmers Bees Man Ambushing GE Protection
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 9:26 am | Soil and Health Association
Federated Farmers GE statements show they are confused about what clean and green means, and appear to be influenced by the vested interests of one of their provincial presidents, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. More >>
Federated Farmers Bees Man Ambushing GE Protection
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 10:17 am | Soil and Health Association
Federated Farmers GE statements show they are confused about what clean and green means, and appear to be influenced by the vested interests of one of their provincial presidents, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. More >>
Life Sciences Confused About GE Risk
Thursday, 16 July 2009, 12:05 pm | Soil and Health Association
The biotech lobby group, Life Sciences appears confused about the birds and the bees, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. Quoted in today’s Christchurch Press newspaper, Life Sciences chairman William Rolleston had said, “The recent ... More >>
NZ Raised GE Eucalyptus Trees Intended for U.S
Monday, 29 June 2009, 9:50 am | Soil and Health Association
More than a quarter of a million genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees exported from New Zealand stand to shred New Zealand’s clean, green brand and risk large-scale health and environmental damage, according to the Soil & Health Association of New ... More >>
MAF Dodging Plant & Food's $10m GE Liability
Monday, 29 June 2009, 9:29 am | Soil and Health Association
The final response of MAF's biosecurity and enforcement teams following major breaches of consent by Plant & Food Research (P&F) at its GE brassica (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbages etc.) field trial during 2008, is a massive insult to the more than 930 ... More >>
Cancer Link Shows Need For Govt Support of Organic
Monday, 22 June 2009, 11:33 am | Soil and Health Association
Two recent studies linking agricultural chemical use to increased bone marrow malignancies show the need for greater government investment into organic agriculture according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ. Both studies released this month implicate ... More >>
ERMA Shown As Failing Parliaments Intentions
Sunday, 7 June 2009, 12:39 pm | Soil and Health Association
The High Court has ruled against ERMA’s decision to allow genetically engineered (GE) animals, after an appeal by GE Free New Zealand. The appeal success against these bizarre and open-ended applications for GE animals by Crown Research Institute ... More >>
NZ Should Note Tasmania’s GE Free Approach
Friday, 22 May 2009, 10:18 am | Soil and Health Association
New Zealand should follow Tasmania’s acknowledgement of the advantages of its clean green image on Wednesday when it extended its ban on the release of genetically engineered organisms to the environment for another five years, according to the ... More >>
