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‘Liberal GE laws bring opportunities for NZ’ – ACT

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‘ACT has long said that if we want to get serious about reducing our emissions and allowing scientific innovation in New Zealand, rather than forcing our scientists to do their work in the States, we must liberalise our archaic genetic engineering (GE) laws,’ says ACT’s Research, Science and Innovation spokesperson Parmjeet Parmar.

‘ACT’s coalition agreement commits to liberalising GE laws. This is desperately needed to ensure we can make scientific advancements while having a clearly regulated framework that mitigates risk. Crucially, the regulation needs to be proportionate to risk.

‘Australia modernised its laws in October 2019. We risk being left behind if we don’t do the same.

‘For example, innovations like AgResearch’s High Metabolisable Energy ryegrass, which has the potential to reduce livestock methane emissions by around 15 per cent and ensure less nitrogen is excreted into the environment, are illegal here.

‘We look forward to liberalising New Zealand’s archaic laws on genetic engineering and allowing our scientists to be leaders, not laggards.’

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Good job ACT, I’m sure the cheque will be in the mail shortly. Maybe use some of that big pharma cash to get David a better haircut.

    We all know this has precisely dick to do with ryegrass, but nice try insulting my intelligence there 😏

    “We’ll get left behind! 😱”

    Because God knows what will become of us if our country isn’t littered with omega clearance-level biolabs cooking up “ryegrass” 🦇🦠 😷 💉

    Jesus.

    Jacinda just got knocked off of her throne, Babylon has a new whore.

  2. This idiotic idea will entirely destroy NZ’s unique ‘clean and green’ international brand, and even worse be an irreversible ecological catastrophe.

    Frightening stupidity once again from our inept politicians.

  3. Please lets get left behind. Our emissions from livestock are tiny in the global scheme of things. Why risk the natural biodiversity.

    Money, perhaps

  4. It’s incredible the nonsense that can spew out of a politician’s mouth, no wonder big business targets them to get what they want. We’ll all be living like farmed animals if this keeps up.

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