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Read more » Category: GE Free NZ BACKING FOR LOCAL RIGHT OF PROTECTION AGAINST RISKS OF GMOs Posted Tue, 11/02/2014 - 13:33 http://press.gefree.org.nz/press/20140210.htm   10/02/2014 Backing for Local Right of Protection Against Risks of GMOs Read more » Category: GE Free NZ Prime MInister Urged to meet Mayor of Hawaii to Learn about GM Ban Posted Wed, 08/01/2014 - 10:49   http://press.gefree.org.nz/press/20140106.htm GE FREE NZ AOTEAROA Press Release 6 December 2013  Prime Minister Urged to Meet Mayor of Hawaii to Learn About GM Ban Read more » Category: GE Free NZ Precaution vital to prevent GE contamination Posted Sun, 01/12/2013 - 23:50   http://press.gefree.org.nz/press/20131126.htm   GE FREE NZ Press Release 26/11/2013 Precaution Vital to Prevent GE Contamination Read more » Category: GE Free NZ Gaping Hole Created by Proposed Change to RMA, Weakening Governance and Democracy Posted Mon, 12/08/2013 - 22:57 http://press.gefree.org.nz/press/20130811.htm Read more » Category: GE Free NZ Crown Research Institute Speaks With Forked Tongue In Opposing GMO Accountability Posted Thu, 13/09/2012 - 22:57 http://press.gefree.org.nz/press/20120913.htm Crown Research Institute Speaks With Forked Tongue In Opposing GMO Accountability      GE FREE NZ Press Release 13 September 2012   GE Free NZ and Bay of Plenty ratepayers who were original submitters to a local Bay of Plenty plan have received notice of an appeal to the Environment Court, lodged by NZ Crown Research Institute Scion. This appeal contests the Environment Bay of Plenty Regional council's (BOPRC) "Precautionary approach" to GMO release and field trialling in the region. Read more » Category: GE Free NZ 'Find Ethical Path' Biotech Delegates Urged: "Don't be Evil" Posted Wed, 05/09/2012 - 20:47 http://press.gefree.org.nz/press/20120901.htm   GE FREE NZ Press Release 01/09/2012 'Find Ethical Path' Biotech Delegates Urged: "Don't be Evil" Read more » Category: GE Free NZ Human Trials of GE-Wheat Unethical Posted Sat, 23/07/2011 - 13:49 Proposals for extending animal feeding studies for GE wheat to humans are unethical and signal the need for an urgent overhaul of the science used by regulators to approve scores of GM foods. A group of international scientists has warned the developers of a GE-Wheat at the CSIRO in Australia against the proposals. There is an acute ethical issue in the lack of long-term feeding studies in animals, which in some cases show complex and inter-generational harm from the GE food tested of which none of the GM foods approved by Food Authorities have undergone human studies. Research has recently been published by Professor Peter Gluckman - the New Zealand government's chief scientific advisor - which reveals the complex epigenetic effects relating to maternal diet. The effects continue to the next generation in a way that is not yet understood. This complexity is simply not considered or addressed in safety testing of GE food. The GE-Wheat been not been adequately tested in animals to even be considered as a candidate for human feeding studies.  "New Zealand scientists should condemn human feeding trials of GM foods in Australia, and elsewhere," says Jon Carapiet, spokesman for GE-free NZ in food and environment. Overseas there are reports of GE "golden" rice also being used in human feeding trials, despite the risks to human health being entirely unnecessary. "It cannot be ethical to be experimenting on humans with Genetically Engineered food when the disease targeted by the golden-rice magic bullet can easily be prevented," says Jon Carapiet. Read more » Category: GE Free NZ NZ EXPORTS AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FACE DESTRUCTION IF MINISTER CHANGES GMO RULES Posted Tue, 02/07/2013 - 23:23 27/06/2013  GE FREE NZ Press Release NZ Exports and Regional Development Face Destruction If Minister Changes GMO Rules Read more » Category: GE Free NZ « first ‹ previous 1 2 3 next › last »