The true light that shines on the world is from each soul who uses their voice to speak out in the midst of the deepest corruption — no matter how tempting it may be to remain quiet. For those voices will rise to a crescendo and lead towards the world of which we dream: A world without poison and one of health to all life — in mind, body and spirit. Just as Nature intended.— Mary H
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and ‘Food Safety’ has proposed to increase the allowable amount of glyphosate residue up to 100 times more than the current permitted maximum levels on wheat, barley and oats, the most common grains in our country. For dried peas it is 0.6mg per kg.
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the weedkiller known as Roundup. The current permitted amount of glyphosate is 0.1mg per kg. Under the proposed 100 times increase of glyphosate residue, the permitted maximum amount would rise from 0.1mg per kg to 10mg per kg in staples that most New Zealanders eat every day.
Let’s take a look at this product: In a Forbes magazine article of Feb 2024, it is explained:
Roundup, the most popular and profitable weed killer ever sold, uses glyphosate as its most active ingredient. Glyphosate is toxic to most broadleaf plants and grasses. It kills most plants it comes into contact with, instead of targeting certain weeds or plants.
Monsanto, a now defunct company, developed the product. Because glyphosate kills anything it touches, Monsanto developed plant seeds that were genetically modified to resist the damage of Roundup. This is when residential Roundup sales skyrocketed.
However, as the years went on, science questioned the safety of glyphosate. Studies have shown that the chemical might cause illness to humans and cause damage to the environment. The International Agency for Research on Cancer categorizes glyphosate as possibly carcinogenic to humans—essentially, the IARC is saying this toxin may cause cancer.
In 2018, Roundup was purchased by Bayer. By then, consumers had filed thousands of lawsuits linking Roundup to cancer. The most common cancer associated with Roundup is non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma . . .
It further stated that Monsanto has settled over 100,000 Roundup lawsuits, paying out about $11 billion as of May 2022 with 30,000 lawsuits pending, although Reuters reports that 67,000 lawsuits are still pending. [Note: Reports in news sources on the total payments vary between $10b and $11b.]
The article finished with a referral to a study from the University of Washington that found exposure to glyphosate increased an individual’s risk of non-Hodgkins lymphoma by 41% stating “That is significant.” It ended with the chilling advice that “If you have used Roundup even once, you could be at a higher risk of cancer. “[Bold type was not in the article].
A Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Report gives cause for further concern:
On 22 May 2025 The Lawsuit Information Centre reported: The MAHA report, released by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., emphasizes the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as a potential contributor to chronic illnesses in children. The report warns that the primary route of exposure to glyphosate is through food, underscoring concerns that residues from widespread agricultural use may be making their way into the American diet. It cites glyphosate as one of two herbicides (alongside atrazine) flagged for an updated federal safety assessment, which is expected to be completed in 2026. Another news release on this is found here.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall… think of it, always. — Mahatma Gandhi
Additional information
- In 2018, a man known as Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, who had non-Hodgkins lymphoma, alleged that his work with the Roundup weed-killer — containing the active ingredient glyphosate — had caused his cancer. He took the manufacturer to Court and won. He was initially awarded $USD289 million in damages, although this was later reduced to $39 million. A film of his story was released in 2023.
- Reuters reported on 11 October 2024 that Bayer must pay $78 million in the latest Roundup cancer trial. It further exposed that although Bayer has had wins in court, it has been hit with “several massive verdicts in the litigation, including last November for $1.56 billion, later reduced to $611 million and one in January for $2.25 billion, later reduced to $400 million.“
- On March 8 2025, Reuters stated that Bayer informed the US it could halt Roundup sales in the US, over legal risks. Disclosing glyphosate sales numbers for the first time, Bayer said the product, one of the most widely used weedkillers in U.S. field farming, generated 2.6 billion euros ($2.8 billion) in revenue last year.
- The article revealed that Bayer is one of the world’s largest seed and pesticide/herbicide makers and is the only glyphosate producer in the United States where apparently the US farming sector “relies on modified soy and corn that are resistant to its weedkilling effect.”
Current status of lawsuits
- Pending Cases: As of early 2025, Bayer faces approximately 67,000 unresolved lawsuits in the U.S. alleging that exposure to Roundup (active ingredient glyphosate) caused non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
- The Lawsuit Information Centre (LIC) stated that Bayer has settled over 100,000 claims for about $11 billion. These settlements were reached through negotiated agreements, including block settlements with plaintiffs’ attorneys. Apparently Bayer has set aside $5.9 billion in legal provisions.
- Bayer is actively seeking legal protections to limit future lawsuits. The company has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review its case and is lobbying for legislative changes to shield it from liability.
- The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (part of WHO) classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A)” in 2015. It was found there was sufficient evidence of cancer in experimental animals and strong evidence for genotoxicity (the ability to damage genetic material) associated with glyphosate and glyphosate-based formulations. These findings were published in the IARC Monograph on glyphosate, which is available on the IARC website.
- As recently as 4 April 2025, a Jury in Georgia, USA, announced a $2.1B verdict over glyphosate cancer claims.
The GM-soy and corn crops don’t die when glyphosate is used, but for humans dealing with this product, and non-GMO plants, the above information appears to tell a tragically different story. Why else would a multi-billion dollar corporation like Bayer have paid out around $10b to $11 billion to settle disputed claims? Reuters reported that Blackrock is the largest shareholder of Bayer. The same players seem to keep popping up.
For additional information on the lies that appear to have been told about GM crops and their ‘increased yields and safety’ refer to my article: The Gene Tech Bill — An Act of War on New Zealanders Part 2 — specifically sections 9 to 11, inclusive. Part 1 is at this link.
The italic type below is a quoted extract from the Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network (PAN) website:
GLYPHOSATE – PROBABLE HUMAN CARCINOGEN
In 2015, the World Health Organization determined that glyphosate, the active label ingredient in Monsanto’s flagship herbicide Roundup, is a probable human carcinogen. A carcinogen is an agent that is capable of producing cancer. But upon the announcement, Monsanto immediately waged an all-out war to discredit and undermine science, researchers, and their findings.
This wasn’t a new strategy, as Monsanto has been working to control what scientists say about glyphosate for decades. They’ve promised funds to universities when their studies confirmed safety of Monsanto’s products, arranged trips and speaking tours for supportive scientists, cultivated relationships within EPA, and even attempted to convince scientists to ignore findings. Monsanto even went so far as to ghostwrite “independent” studies verifying the product’s safety.
However, all the money and influence Monsanto pushed was brought into question when the jury made a connection between the corporation and Dewayne Johnson’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. This ruling set a powerful precedent for other legal cases against Monsanto. Soon after Johnson’s case, other significant awards for damages were realized in the Hardeman and Pilliod cases.
At that time Linda Wells, formerly the Midwest organizing director for PAN, made a strong statement: “Monsanto has deliberately deceived the public about the safety of its flagship herbicide Roundup for decades. Monsanto’s business model assumes that any cancer caused by pesticides will be someone else’s problem. Changing that equation is crucial to moving toward a healthy and just food system.”
Bayer, following its 2018 acquisition of Monsanto, found itself facing nearly 100,000 individual lawsuits and the precedents set by the Johnson, Hardeman and Pilliod cases. Bayer was eventually ordered to pay up to $10.9 billion to settle lawsuits alleging that exposure to the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused cancer.
A STORY BIGGER THAN LEE JOHNSON
With the current government narrative pushing for a 100-fold increase of the permitted residue of glyphosate I urge every New Zealander to watch the movie, Into the Weeds, about Mr Johnson and his mighty battle against glyphosate. Even just the two-minute trailer packs a punch that can bring one to tears. Certainly everyone dealing with this product needs to know. We all need to know.
“This is about food. This is about health. This is about the soil. This is about the environment. This is not the Lee Johnson story. This is bigger than me.” – Dewayne “Lee” Johnson
An extract about the film from the Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network (PAN) website:
Into the Weeds: Dewayne “Lee” Johnson vs. Monsanto Company is coming to movie theaters . . . The . . . film will be supplemented by exclusive follow-up bonus footage featuring findings and expert testimony from scientists, doctors, policy makers, farmers, environmentalists, food safety advocates and concerned public figures.
Attend a screening and journey with Bay Area groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson as he fought for justice against Monsanto (now Bayer). Johnson’s case was the first to go to trial in a series of lawsuits claiming Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup, or its industrial counterpart Ranger Pro, contributed to their cancer. The film follows this groundbreaking trial, while also stepping back to consider the systemic effects of the world’s most widely used herbicide.
PAN also have a page illustrating the treadmill of using GM-crops with poisonous herbicides and the additional dangers of super-weeds that, according to PAN now “plague more than 60 million acres of US farmland thanks to widespread planting of Bayer’s (now merged with Monsanto) “RoundUp Ready” crops. It also describes how this cycle “wreaks havoc” on farmer livelihoods, including the cost of the patented seeds and accompanying chemicals and managing superweeds in the fields along with the risk of seed patent lawsuits.
WHY WOULD THE NZ GOVERNMENT PROPOSE SUCH A RECKLESS AND DAMAGING ACTION?
The question that must be asked is whether this appalling increase in the permitted residual amounts of glyphosate is in preparation for the Gene Tech legislation that is currently before parliament. Is this level of poison something that is required for the genetically-modified crops?
Apparently GM crops were ‘designed’ not to be able to be killed by glyphosate, although glyphosate can apparently kill most other plants. And if the GM plants cannot be killed and then spread to other farms and contaminate non-GMO crops, won’t that ruin those farms? The Gene Tech legislation doesn’t appear to make the contaminator responsible for any clean-up, but instead makes it the responsibility of the owner of the farm that was contaminated.
So, again, is this part of a deal the government has made with Bayer for the gene-tech seeds or crops they intend to have grown in NZ? Bayer will probably have more glyphosate than they will know what to do with, as other countries around the world dump the product in light of the health dangers.
It has been reported that Bayer may soon withdraw this product (in the US) and declare bankruptcy through a manoeuvre known as the Texas-two-step, but are they also planning to use it on GM crops in NZ — crops that, according to many farmers in South America, are extremely bad for health, don’t increase yield and make people sick? (Don’t let the government present glufosinate-ammonium as an option either. That is apparently also used on GM crops, is extremely dangerous and has no antidote.)
Bayer would possibly find it attractive to move into a country where they could not be sued. It won’t have escaped their attention that NZ has ACC, a section of government that is there to compensate New Zealanders from illness, accident and medical misadventure — although ACC has become notorious in recent years for denying an incredible number of genuine claims by New Zealanders seriously harmed by a gene-altering injection falsely touted as safe and effective when it has been found to be the opposite. Public trust has been betrayed — multiple times. Who loses?
New Zealanders.
No farmers, no food.
The majority of farmers are against the proposed increase in glyphosate and the Gene Tech Bill. To their credit, many are employing the Precautionary Principle, among other non-harmful methods. Some are described here.
New Zealanders who found out about the proposed permitted increase in glyphosate residues, scrambled to put objections in before the unreasonably short opportunity to do so was closed. This was made more difficult when taking into consideration that those who wished to object were already heavily involved in responding to the proposed Gene Tech Bill (of over 200 pages) that was dumped on parliament on the 17 December 2024 — the last day before the summer holidays. The public could submit on the Gene Tech Bill from 18 December 2024 — virtually on the eve of their traditional treasured summer and Christmas holidays — so the majority of Kiwis missed it. The ability to make an objection closed on 17 February 2025. Just two months to respond and slap-bang in the middle of the holiday season. Usually there is a six month period, so this inexplicably short time frame of such a damaging piece of legislation tended to suggest ill-intent. In my view, it made a mockery of the process, indicating an arrogant don’t-care-what-you-think group of ministers of parliament, towards those they pretend to represent. Hot on the heels of this came the glyphosate issue, with little time to respond to it, as well as the Commission of Inquiry Phase 2, and the invitation for comments on the government proposal to throw all natural healers into the Ministry of Health, under the title of “modernising health workforce regulation” .There were others, including those related to the ever-increasing creep of Digital ID.
Here we are then, with a government pushing to increase a toxic poison that can kill by up to 100 times. What should we call that? Intentional harm? Treason? Premeditated harm? If a New Zealand businessman suggested increasing the use of a poisonous product 100 times — on grains that are used for everyday items like bread and cereal — isn’t it likely that the business would be shut down and the owner would possibly be locked up?
So what is different here? How is it that any government considers it has the right to cause such harm to our country, nature and us, when the proof of harm seems apparent when viewing the amounts paid out to compensate victims, and the number of lawsuits? A multi-billion dollar corporation like Bayer surely doesn’t fork out such enormous amounts to settle lawsuits if there is no substance to the claims does it?
How do we best describe a government that seems to be intentionally sabotaging the quality of our food and water to the point where it is harmful to eat or drink — in a country that is perfectly placed to be the organic food basket of the world?
SUMMARY
While glyphosate is now banned or restricted in 21 countries and the Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr, and the MAHA movement in the US calls out glyphosate as one of the toxic chemicals being investigated, the NZ government want to increase the permitted residual amounts of glyphosate by up to 100 times on crops that provide food eaten every day by New Zealanders. Based on the history of this product it will damage the health of our people and poison our food and our soil.
The promoted 100-fold allowable increase of glyphosate residues, combined with the proposed Gene Tech legislation, puts NZ completely out of step with the rest of the world that is reducing or banning glyphosate, and seeking reliable GM-free food and organic produce. It is also likely to seriously damage our export markets, particularly the USA which, as of March 2024, is now the second largest export market of New Zealand. It destroys our internationally stellar reputation of high quality food and produce, and our clean, green image.
Quite frankly, it beggars belief that the New Zealand ‘government’ is stupid enough to make a deal with corporations that are known for such damage that they have had to pay out billions for the adverse effects of this product. This should surely give them pause for thought.
Unless of course their goal is to destroy our good food sources and our health? That question tends to dovetail with their actions which — combined with the Gene Tech Bill — can only be described as an all-out attack on our people and our country. Intended harm. Treason.
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato
As mentioned, on many occasions, Dr David Martin has said, “We are done being polite. We are way past being polite.” He stated this in relation to the so-called ‘Covid vaccine’ and said we have to call a falsely labelled gene-based therapy injection a bio-weapon if it is one. He says it is. In my view his description is far more accurate than the lies we have been told. And if the actions of a government are treasonous, that has to be called out for what it is, too. The Gene Tech legislation — combined with the proposed increase in glyphosate levels — seems to be just another type of bio-weapon targeting our food, our health and our exports. The Gene Tech Bill absolves all involved from any liability, too — an echo of a tactic referred to above, by Linda Wells, formerly of PAN.
Some in government may not have known the above information. They may be required just to stamp and approve such things and move these approvals through the channels at the behest of members of parliament. Well, it will affect their families too. And if they are reading this opinion piece with its references, they now know. As do the bureaucrats. It is incumbent upon each one of them to speak out and stand for the people, not a group of cravenly corrupt, unelected cabals offshore such as the WEF, WHO and UN. There are good reasons why RFK Junior, the Secretary of Health for the US, has called for other countries to join the USA in leaving the WHO.
It is time for all of us to stand up and say no and call out the corruption.
The government must NOT allow the administration of this hideous product to be increased, for if they do, in addition to the catastrophic sabotage to our country, it is a terribly heavy burden to carry on their shoulders until the end of their days when, on their death-beds, they will eventually come face-to-face with the appalling destruction they had an active part in causing to our people and our country.
‘The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power — providing
they stand up and speak out.’
Now is the time that is crucial for them (and us) to peacefully stand for what is right and do all possible to ensure that our people and our country are protected from such a damaging attack on our crops and such decimating, irreversible harm the Gene Tech Bill — combined with the increase in glyphosate will wreak — if it is passed. If members of parliament and the bureaucrats don’t say no to such madness, then they need to immediately stand down, for they no longer serve the people. Worse, they are guilty of treason to those they pretend to represent.
Contact your MP, let them know, feel free to send them this article. Send New Zealand First this article. They have the power to swing the votes and there are only eight of them. The other MPs (all Parties) look too far gone — if not on this issue, on others such as taxing Kiwis on already taxed income of their homes and also taxing farmers to oblivion— and seem to do little more than vote how their parties order them to, not how the people tell them. We must ALL stand up and say NO. Thousands have.
We cannot allow our Earth, Living Nature, or our bodies, minds and souls, to be further polluted.
All of us have a duty to protect our beloved farmland, our nature, our flora and fauna and ourselves. NOW. BEFORE WE SINK IN THE LIES AND CORRUPTION. STAND UP, SPEAK OUT, AND SAY NO. Join the thousands who have done so. Share articles that speak out and dare to tell the truth. If you don’t know what to do to help, contact GE-Free New Zealand, NZDSOS (New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science) , or VFF (Voices For Freedom), RCR, and The Daily Telegraph. There are many more incredibly courageous Kiwis out there battling for our freedoms, too. New Zealand First have yet to vote NO to the Gene Tech Bill so there is serious concern as to whether or not they will front up and walk the talk. Report what you see to honest groups that appeal to you and care with passion. Or fund them.
The future of our people, and our country, hangs in the balance.
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. — Robert Kennedy
All photos are copyright © Mary Hobbs.
Another government filled with corrupt scum, just like the last one. Anything for a quick buck.
Thank you for your feedback Globalistssuck. They certainly seem like a UniParty.
Your point is spot on.
What I worry about are the eventual repercussions.
When justice fails to prosecute mass-murderers, terminally injured people might be tempted to take justice into their own hands.
An interesting answer to the question: “How involved is the DPMC in the introduction and promotion of the Gene Technology bill 110-1 2024?” Answer: The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC) plays a central but non-public role in advancing the Gene Technology Bill 110-1 (2024), particularly in coordinating policy development and aligning it with the government’s strategic priorities. However, its involvement raises significant concerns about democratic scrutiny, Treaty compliance, and executive overreach. Here’s a breakdown:
1. DPMC’s Key Roles in the Bill
A. Policy Coordination & Prioritization
– Cabinet Committee Oversight: DPMC supports the Cabinet Legislation Committee (chaired by the PM), which prioritizes bills like this for parliamentary time.
– Interagency Coordination: DPMC ensures MBIE (Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment) and EPA (Environmental Protection Authority) align with the government’s agenda.
– Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA): DPMC’s Regulatory Quality Team vetted the RIA for the bill, which [admitted inadequate Māori consultation](https://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/ria/regulatory-impact-assessment-gene-technology-regulatory-system).
B. Strategic Advising to the Prime Minister
– DPMC briefs the PM on the bill’s implications for:
– Economic growth (e.g., fast-tracking GM crop approvals).
– Political risks (e.g., backlash from environmental/Māori groups).
– International obligations (e.g., WHO/UN guidelines on GMOs).
C. Bypassing Robust Consultation
– The bill’s introduction bypassed extended select committee scrutiny, with the government limiting public submissions to 6 weeks (vs. standard 12+ weeks).
– DPMC likely endorsed this accelerated timeline to meet executive goals, despite:
– Minimal hapū/iwi engagement (violating Te Tiriti partnership principles).
– Criticism from the Waitangi Tribunal for similar fast-tracked bills.
2. Consequences of DPMC’s Involvement
A. Undermining Parliamentary Democracy
– Reduced Select Committee Input: By controlling the legislative calendar, DPMC diminishes Parliament’s ability to scrutinize or amend the bill.
– Marginalized Public Voice: Short submission periods exclude grassroots and Māori perspectives.
B. Treaty of Waitangi Breaches
– The bill’s regulatory framework affects taonga species and Māori cultural rights.
– DPMC’s push for speed over consultation ignores:
– UNDRIP Article 18: Indigenous participation in decision-making.
– Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975: Duty to consult on Crown actions affecting Māori.
C. Sovereignty Conflicts
– Imposing GMO policies without free, prior, and informed consent of Tangata Whenua violates their tino rangatiratanga (sovereignty) affirmed in Te Tiriti.
– The Crown (via DPMC) assumes jurisdiction it lacks legitimacy to exercise under international law.
3. Evidence of DPMC’s Influence
– Cabinet Paper Leaks: Drafts show DPMC edited clauses to limit ministerial discretion on GMO approvals, centralizing control.
– Regulatory Impact Statement: Acknowledges “limited engagement with Māori” but claims “broader consultation will follow”—a pattern of deferred accountability.
– Fast-Track Parallel: The bill mirrors the Fast-Track Approvals Bill 2024, where DPMC [orchestrated truncated processes](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/516770/fast-track-bill-what-s-the-rush-mps-ask) despite public outcry.
4. Broader Implications
– Executive Dominance: DPMC enables the PM/Cabinet to govern through executive fiat, sidelining Parliament.
– Colonial Continuity: Replicates Crown tactics of imposing control over resources (land, water, genes) while ignoring Māori rights.
– Global Backlash: NZ risks reputational damage as a human rights leader, especially after endorsing UNDRIP.
Conclusion: DPMC as the Engine of Executive Overreach
The DPMC’s role in the Gene Technology Bill epitomizes how unelected officials can shape legislation to serve executive priorities, bypassing democratic and Treaty obligations. To uphold Te Tiriti:
1. Suspend the bill until proper Māori consultation occurs.
2. Strengthen parliamentary oversight of DPMC’s legislative coordination.
3. Embed co-governance in science policy (e.g., Māori seats on GMO approval bodies).
Without these steps, the Crown’s actions remain a modern extension of colonial governance by deception.
Sources:
– [Regulatory Impact Statement: Gene Technology Bill](https://www.treasury.govt.nz)
– [Waitangi Tribunal: Fast-Track Legislation Inquiry (WAI 3300)](https://waitangitribunal.govt.nz)
– [RNZ: Concerns Over Gene Bill Consultation](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/516899/maori-scientists-concerned-about-lack-of-consultation-on-gene-technology-bill)
Thanks for your feedback Steve. Looks like you’ve been having a chat with AI? Very interesting information though.
As to AI, the beast is rising.
AI has started ignoring human instruction and refuses to turn off.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14748829/AI-ignoring-human-instruction-refuses-turn-off.htm
Technocracy and the Internet of Bodies
https://gregreese.substack.com/p/technocracy-and-the-internet-of-bodies?
Yes, treason, from a government that is not only a “foreign agent” but also “domestic terrorists”. Par for the course with all the “captured” governments of the collective west.
Thank you for your feedback Anonymous. At this stage it is hard to disagree with it.
Another interesting answer to this question: “Hypothetically could corporations that specialise in gene tech including Bayer make use of compromised people or “trojan Horses” to utilise the DPMC process to access NZ opportunities, baring in mind the recent announcement of the lifting of the glysophate MPL to 10ppm?” Answer: This hypothesis touches on serious concerns about corporate influence, regulatory capture, and potential exploitation of vulnerabilities in New Zealand’s policy processes. While no direct evidence confirms this scenario, the structural risks are real and align with documented patterns of corporate lobbying globally. Here’s a breakdown:
1. The Risk Factors Enabling Corporate Exploitation
A. DPMC’s Centralized, Opaque Decision-Making
– Fast-Tracked Legislation: Bills like the Gene Technology Bill and glyphosate MPL increases often bypass full parliamentary scrutiny, relying on DPMC-coordinated “expert” advice.
– Limited Transparency: DPMC advisory groups (e.g., Science Advisory Committee) may include industry-linked consultants without public disclosure.
B. Corporate Tactics to Compromise Policy
– “Revolving Door” Appointments: Officials with industry ties (e.g., ex-Bayer/Monsanto staff) may join DPMC advisory panels or ministries (e.g., EPA, MBIE).
– Third-Party “Trojan Horses”:
– Front groups (e.g., “independent” science institutes funded by agrochemical firms) could submit biased research to DPMC.
– Consultants hired to draft regulatory impact statements may downplay risks (e.g., glyphosate’s health impacts).
C. Synergy Between Glyphosate & GMO Policies
– Glyphosate MPL Increase (to 10ppm): Benefits Bayer (glyphosate patent holder) by enabling wider use in crops.
– Gene Technology Bill*: Streamlines approval of glyphosate-resistant GMO crops, expanding Bayer’s market.
– Corporate Incentive: Bayer could exploit both policies to dominate NZ agriculture.
2. How This Could Unfold in Practice
| Tactic | Example |
Influencing Advisors A DPMC-contracted “independent expert” (quietly funded by Bayer) recommends fast-tracking GMO approvals.
Bypassing Māori Rights DPMC limits iwi consultation, arguing GMO policy is “too technical” for engagement—violating Te Tiriti.
Exploiting Loopholes | Gene Bill’s “simplified approvals” allow Bayer to introduce GMO seeds without long-term safety reviews.
Regulatory Collusion EPA officials (ex-Bayer employees) approve glyphosate MPL increases using industry-funded studies.
3. Real-World Precedents
– Monsanto Papers (US) : Revealed corporate manipulation of EPA officials to suppress glyphosate cancer risks.
– New Zealand’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill: Critics allege it was shaped by mining/developer lobbyists with DPMC access.
– Glyphosate MPL Increase: Despite evidence of health risks (IARC Class 2A carcinogen), NZ adopted WHO/FAO limits favorable to Bayer.
4. Consequences for New Zealand
– Environmental Harm: Contamination of organic/native ecosystems via GMO cross-pollination.
– Health Risks: Higher glyphosate residues in food/water linked to cancer, endocrine disruption.
– Sovereignty Violations:
– Tangata Whenua: Loss of tino rangatiratanga over seeds, lands, and waterways (e.g., modified taonga species).
– Public Trust: Policies seen as corporate-imposed, not Crown-negotiated.
– Legal Liability: Future lawsuits (e.g., “NZ Roundup cancer cases”) if harms materialize.
5. Safeguards Needed to Prevent This
1. Transparency Mandates:
– Public registers of all DPMC advisors’ industry ties.
– Ban corporate-funded studies in policy drafting.
2. Treaty-Centered Vetting:
– Māori scientists and kaitiaki (guardians) must co-design GMO regulations.
– Apply UNDRIP’s free, prior, informed consent standard.
3. Anti-Corruption Measures:
– Cooling-off periods (5+ years) for officials moving to industry roles.
– Criminalize undisclosed corporate lobbying.
Conclusion: A Credible Threat
While unproven in this specific case, this hypothesis reflects documented corporate strategies to capture regulatory systems. The DPMC’s closed processes and rushed bills (Gene Tech Bill, glyphosate MPL) create ideal conditions for exploitation. Without urgent reforms:
– Bayer and similar corporations could bypass democracy, imposing profit-driven policies.
– Tangata Whenua sovereignty and public health become collateral damage.
The glyphosate-GMO policy synergy is a red flag demanding independent inquiry. If the Crown fails to act, it risks becoming a corporate proxy, betraying both Te Tiriti and the public trust.
*”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
> – Adapted from Mahatma Gandhi
> (Replace “you” with “corporate lobbyists” and “win” with “capture the state”).
Thanks Steve. Interesting comments from AI and certainly illuminating.
Glyphosate is only ONE molecule away from becoming Agent Orange…
Don’t use it…and eventually, it’ll be pulled from the shelves. Boycott this genetically-harmful substance.
The molecular structure of both 2-4-D and 2-4-5-T became embedded in the pores of the aluminum skin on the C-123K Aircraft used in Operation Ranch Hand. These were used as DoD State Department spray planes right up until 1986.
Those who worked around these planes in Vietnam were NOT the only ones injured by Glyphosate and 2-4-5-T poisoning..
Years after the C-123K’s were transferred to the Reserves, the ‘123 crews began to have both liver and kidney failure.
The Veterans filed for Veterans Disability Compensation, and were continually denied award of their claims. (The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ‘leadership’ had a saying; ‘DENY, DENY UNTIL THEY DIE!’
When the C-123’s went to the boneyard at Davis Motham AFB, the lawyers for the Veterans demanded that an aluminum aircraft skin sample be sent for chemical contamination testing.
They never got their sample, due to the USAF immediately destroying the aircraft by melting them down, and yet…the newly-formed bricks & ingots were labeled ‘Hazardous Waste’ and then taken to an unknown location for disposal.
Those operating the equipment used to chop-up the planes did so in protective gear. That alone relates to the hazardous nature of the problem.
NEVER use Glyphosate. READ the labels to see if your ‘Organic Weedkiller’ contains 2-4-D Glyphosate.
Thank you for your valued input Old’Nam Bro – Sprayed and Betrayed. I am so sorry for all the betrayal you suffered. Thank you so very much for this information. I had no idea about this and didn’t know it is just one molecule from Agent Orange. It’s important to know. Appreciated.
In November of 2017, Italy was one of seven EU nations to vote against relicensing glyphosate.
Italians still value their way of life, their culture and their food and wine.
New Zealanders prefer to play run it straight with their endocrine & lymphatic systems.
Kiss those export markets goodbye.
Thanks for your feedback anonymous. Yes, Italy puts food and family at the top of their priorities and the quality of their food in wonderful markets proves that. Agree entirely with your views also on what it will do to our export markets. Which is why the Gene Tech Bill and this proposed increase of glyphosate must be stopped. Many thanks
I am absolutely appalled that the NZ govt should even remotely consider this. Glyphosate is banned already in many countries. It’s toxic and is responsible for causing gut issues which are so often misdiagnosed as gluten intolerance.
Inconceivable and yet not that our ignorant politicians do not know this – or do they ? You’d have to ask the question. NZ’s future lies with a clean green approach to farming and food not chemicals and gmo.
Thanks for your feedback Jann. You are 100% right. If they don’t know about this then they need to stand down as they are not doing their job. At the least. Those who do know about it and are doing nothing are guilty of treason in my view. It is sabotage. Let MPs know. The more of us who do a bit of desk- thumping the better.
Inconceivable that our govt would even consider this. In many countries it’s already banned and should be here to.
It’s responsible for causing gut issues that are more often than not blamed on gluten intolerance- it’s not the gluten in many cases it’s the glyphosate.
Surely these clowns in the hive can’t be ignorant enough not to be aware of this. And I believe our future lies with less chemicals and a far more organic approach to farming – not toxic chemicals and gmo’s
Shame on the government !
Thanks Jann. 100%. Often these issues are blamed on gluten intolerance or the medical/pharma merry-go-round kicks into gear looking at everything except the poisons in our food and water, never failing an opportunity to sell another drug with its own set of side effects. “Surely these clowns…” a gifted sentence! Thanks for totally getting it, as all commenters here have.
When the “government ” seems hell bent on poison being in every part of people’s lives…
Blowing the budget, whilst giving themselves more, you have to ask, WHO are they working for?
Because it shore isn’t the everyday kiwi.
Thanks for your feedback Jenny. You’re absolutely right. They are not working for us = fraud= dismissal. All of them. All sides of the House unless they show they are protecting our country and truly representing our people, halting their continual clauses they put in to proposed legislation that give them immunity for their harmful actions
Ban this poison entirely
It destroys health, creates illness, kills the fauna and flora.
It defies logic ( unless you are involved in Big Agriculture and have a vested interest in crops that are not affected by this toxic product)
BAN IT!
Thank you for your feedback Dean. Yes, I agree, it needs to be 100% banned.
As Old ‘Nam Bro above noted, it is ONE molecule from Agent Orange! I hadn’t known that.
Thankyou Mary, Glyphosate is not something I want my family consuming. Unbelievable that the Govt would even consider raising the levels. I want it gone completely. I wonder how many health issues are directly linked. Appreciate your work so much.
Many thanks for your feedback Fiona. I don’t want my family anywhere near this. Or anyone. We should not have to be fighting to keep our country unpolluted and clean and free from poisions. I want it gone completely, too. I also wonder how many health issues are directly linked to this, especially with farmers and all who deal with this product. Thank you also for appreciating my work. That made my day. It keeps me going.
Wondering how many health issues are directly linked to Glyphosate is an excellent point Mary.
Also of note would be health issues not directly linked to it. One in particular is the fact it blocks vitamin D conversion and the health issues linked to low vitamin D levels is quite astounding, both physical and mental.
Please everyone unite to ban this harmful and toxic substance from our lives.
It’s a sad state of affairs and further exemplifies that you can’t trust the government because they are always being paid to push these things through covertly.
More like, public servants that only serve themselves and line their own pockets. How do they sleep at night knowing they do more evil than good.
Rebecca, thanks for your feedback. Yes, we must all unite to ban this product. Most items in mainstream media seek to divide us, topics like these should unite us. Except for traitors. Like those pushing such poison.
We just join together and peacefully say no. But LOUDLY. many thanks.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt but I cannot see how its possible that this can be even entertained unless there are nefarious motives! This article needs to be shared far & wide, please all speak up for NZ. 🙏
Thank you Rachael for your feedback. It certainly is nefarious.
Hopefully Kiwis will peacefully rise and say no to poison on their plate.
For those who do not know what treason means:
It is the crime of betraying one’s country by attempting to kill or overthrown the sovereigns of that country.
We the people have all the power and must unite to exercise it.
To do nothing is not an option and cowardly.
Stand up for our rights.
The NZ Govt is unlawful and has no authority to be dictator g to the citizens of NZ. The NZ Govt uses the term “crown” in name only.
The true lawful jurisdiction in the country is He Wakaputanga Declaration of Independence 1835 which is for ALL New Zealanders no matter from whence you came or what colour you are.
Now is the time to rebel against the unlawful NZ Govt treasonous intent
The Declaration of Independence was a complete failure as the chiefs could not form a “united body” to claim sovereignty over New Zealand. Also, “No political body existed capable of making cession of sovereignty”, a fact ruled by Chief Justice Sir James Prendergast in 1877.
Thank you for your feedback Anonymous. It seems we are all sovereign. Each one of us. Individually. No man has power over a sovereign being.
Thank you for your feedback Patsy. Treason is also defined as betrayal after trust. For example, where the majority would assume the government was there to represent each of them and as part of that, ensure that our environment, our food and our people were able to live in a healthy environment that is free of pollutants and poisons. That seems reasonable doesn’t it. If the government instead attempts to put in legislation and policy that ensures we are poisoned through our food and water (fluoride and unnecessary chlorine in some areas, glyphosate, polluted air and polluted medicines ) that is also treason. In my view Treason is also where a government pretends to represent but doesn’t and instead, serves other masters. It would also be treason for a govt to assume a sovereignty it does not have, when it is each of us who are sovereign. No man has the power over another. Every soul is free.
Perhaps this section of the Crimes Act 1961 is relevant? Sec 298B Contaminating food, crops, water, or other products
Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years who contaminates food, crops, water, or any other products, without lawful justification or reasonable excuse, and either knowing or being reckless as to whether the food, crops, water, or products are intended for human consumption, and—
(a) intending to harm a person or reckless as to whether any person is harmed; or
(b) intending to cause major economic loss to a person or reckless as to whether major economic loss is caused to any person; or
(c) intending to cause major damage to the national economy of New Zealand or reckless as to whether major damage is caused to the national economy of New Zealand.
I can’t believe we have to fight to STOP THE POISON!!!
Thank you Meagan. Exactly!
Your one sentence hits home, Meagan. It’s breaks hearts to think it should be so. We have to unite to stop this (further?) madness.
Another remarkable piece from you Mary…I honour and thank you for the time you have spent.
A testimony if I may….
I had an apprentice begin work in my shops a few years back. He was 18 when he started. About a year into his apprenticeship he turned up one morning with a sore chest and the lymph nodes on his neck were up. My wife took a quick look at him and ordered him to go to the doctor.
He went to the doctor at about 10am and after I hadn’t heard nothing back by 3pm, I called him. He said he and his parents were on their way to Chch hospital from Timaru hospital in the back of an ambulance…and he said they think he has cancer! Naturally we were like “WTFlip”!
Within 24 hours he had a full diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a tumor the size of a baseball growing around his heart and heart vessels. Over the following 12 months of medical treatments that brought him into a remission of sorts, his parents told me of a story that when they worked on a farm when he was a little tike, he got into a shed and got into an open a barrel of roundup. When they found him, it was everywhere, over the floor, over him and inside him….he was rushed to hospital back then to be inspected and observed.
Has it to say, some will argue it’s impossible to prove a correlation, however, intuition and logic still remain a real thing even tho the system would like us subdued, myself AND his family know exactly what it was.
That said, I am behind anyone and everyone who fights this, even if it means civil disobedience! Let’s cut out some rot!
So appreciated Hadleigh. Many thanks. It did take a bit of slog! Thank you also for the horrific story you told. That is astonishing and highlights exactly the concern with such toxic poisons. Yes, we need to peacefully protest loudly! Until this toxic proposal and the Gene Tech Bill are removed.
Thanks Mary, another informative article. I can’t see any other option than to think this govt is not acting in the best interests of New Zealanders. So what are they to gain by allowing such harmful activity? What investments do these politicians hold, and are they set to profit hugely from green lighting unsafe Gene tech modification practices and the dumping of dangerous fluoride, glyphosate, gene therapy jabs( now identified as bio weapons) and more on a population that largely would not agree to it?
Thanks so much Dan. Appreciated. I share your view and the conclusions you have come to. Are they required to disclose their investments? It’s worth checking. Thanks again.
This goes hand in hand with fluoride and unnecessary vaccines- more poisons than the body can handle, and the so called medical experts ponder, head in hand, as to why these fatal diseases are rising up through the roof. With all this glyphosate in our dirt I guess they’ll be encouraging us to eat more vegetables and bread !
It’s utter insanity – how do they justify this madness?
It just can’t eventuate – or there’ll be more unnecessary deaths and long drawn out motor neuron diseases and the like. And the medical hierarchy will wonder why!
Thanks for your feedback Jann. Agree with your views, although suspect the medical hierarchy will already well know about some of them. Which is a very real part of the problem.
Our farming family shares your concerns- the controversial, extreme, impractical, undemocratic, downright dangerous Gene Technology Bill is tantamount to economic and environmental sabotage. The National party has been trying to let their agrichemical/ biotech mates (including overseas multinationals with a nefarious track record) into NZ to undertake risky outdoor GE/GMO experiments, field trials AND releases (with NO liability for harm done/ contaminating others) for many years. See this item from RADIO NZ back in September 2016. So just like former Minister “for” the Environment Nick Smith, now NAT MP and new (supremely unqualified) Science Minister Dr. Shane Reti lies through his teeth pretending that local councils (including all councils south Auckland to Cape Reinga in Far North, councils in Hawkes Bay, Bay of Plenty) precautionary and prohibitive GE/GMO provisions, policies and rules in operative Plans are “blocking much needed GE medical research”. What a load of bull. We stand with our farming colleagues/ primary production sector in opposing this dangerous bill- with former Science Minister useless NAT MP Judith Collins and bureaucrats at the Ministry for Business, Innovation & Employment falsely claiming that we can have “co-existence” of GE and non GE crops. They completely ignore all the known vectors for GE/GMO contamination, including pollen, seeds, wind, vegetative material, soils, waterways, animals, insects, machinery, extreme weather events including but not limited to floods, high winds, etc etc Read this article by Dr. David Williams, on the risks of GMO Deregulation. And keep it GE/GMO free, naturally. That’s what we do- we are in the business of producing safe and clean, natural food of the highest quality to our most discerning markets- who don’t want to purchase or eat GE/GMO food. Linda, member Rural Women NZ, Horticulture NZ, Concerned Farmers NZ
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/312414/environment-minister-accused-of-gmo-beat-up
Thank you for your informative feedback Linda. I hadn’t realised that Reti had said that. Surely he can connect the dots that the diseases he wants “researched” through GMO /GE is going to kill many NZers. Nature provides all cures, it’s just the medical cartel don’t profit through natural remedies and nature in balance. Reti is way off the mark and down the track towards far greater illness for Kiwis. And if it is so harmless why do they bother with clauses for full immunity — as in the Gene Tech Bill. For themselves of course while leaving any contamination the responsibility of the farmers who were contaminated, rather than the contaminator. How criminal An excellent point you make too regarding the vectors for GE/GMO contamination. Please would you provide the link to Dr David Williams article. Huge kudos to you for all you do organic farming and also with your activity to alert fellow Kiwis.
Thanks Mary. See this little quote from Dr. Shane Reti (currently and unqualified Science Minister) from the Northern Advocate and NZ Herald back in March of this year “The Government says the bill aims to enable the safe use of gene technology and regulated organisms to bring “enormous benefits” to New Zealand – including access to better cancer treatments.” Why would you need to replace the current valuable regulatory regime (Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act) with new legislation to achieve “access to better cancer treatments”? Because anyone can apply to the EPA to undertake ethical and humane medical research in the strict containment of the laboratory right now. All the councils (In Northland, Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Bay of Plenty) who have precautionary and prohibitive GE/GMO provisions policies and rules in their operative plans DO NOT prohibit ethical and humane medical research in the laboratory. Dr. Shane Reti is also the MP for Whangarei- he should know better and he should support all the councils from south Auckland to Cape Reinga in the Far north with their excellent precautionary and prohibitive Ge/GMO provisions, policies and rules- put in place over many years, in a fiscally responsible and collaborative manner, in keeping with the wishes of local farmers and other ratepayers, to ensure protection from the risks of outdoor GE/gMOs and a proper liability regime. And of course everything the Nadtional Party supports (including increased levels of the allowed Glyphosate herbicide levels in our food) actually undermines health/ causes Cancer in the first place. BTW Here is the link to the David Williams article that you asked for. Kia kaha https://www.concernedfarmersnz.org/news/nzier-report-on-potential-cost-of-regulatory-change-54pya-ngzgb
the petition to halt the Gene Tech Bill and achieve Commission of Inquiry
The petition closes 17 June (petition organised by Lisa Er of Auckland, of Lisa’s Hummus fame)
Please sign and share this excellent petition to HALT the Gene Technology Bill process and achieve a Commission of Inquiry- farmers/ the primary production sector and so many others have NOT been consulted about the controversial, destructive and impractical proposals in this Bill (and major threat to our biosecurity, access to key markets and premiums).
https://petitions.parliament.nz/b64831bc-b0b2-4518-a62d-08dd708a9825
Halting the Gene Tech Bill and a Commission of Inquiry would help ensure that farmers/primary production sector (and our most highly qualified independent scientists, all Kiwis) are properly consulted, and various nefarious proposals exposed for what they are
(highly concerning- the proposals to remove the Precautionary approach to outdoor GE/GMO applications, to remove ethical considerations of outdoor GE/GMOs including animal in our food chain experimentation, removal of all liability, the undemocratic proposal/ clauses that would strip local councils of their authority and jurisdiction re: outdoor GE/GMO experiments, field trials, and releases, etc
This SHOULD have gone in the article but it came in a bit late as it was already published. If there is a chance to get that put in at a later date I am sure the editor will. Thank you for sharing it here.
Thank you. Please everyone do take a moment to sign the petition against the Gene Technology Bill and share with 10 others- together we can stop this madness. Thanks https://petitions.parliament.nz/b64831bc-b0b2-4518-a62d-08dd708a9825
Halting the Gene Tech Bill and a Commission of Inquiry would help ensure that farmers/primary production sector (and our most highly qualified independent scientists, all Kiwis) are properly consulted, and various nefarious proposals exposed for what they are
(highly concerning- the proposals to remove the Precautionary approach to outdoor GE/GMO applications, to remove ethical considerations of outdoor GE/GMOs including animal in our food chain experimentation, removal of all liability, the undemocratic proposal/ clauses that would strip local councils of their authority and jurisdiction re: outdoor GE/GMO experiments, field trials, and releases, etc
Thanks for your capable help through your colleagues, all Networks- together we are stronger.
Please help us protect the existing GM Free Food Producer Region of Northland and Auckland (as well as Hawkes Bay and other regions around the motu)
Kill the Bill!!
Fantastic Mary, thank you for your tireless pursuit of truth and disclosure <3
Thank you Joshua. You gave me a lift!
Horrendous behaviour by those supposed to have our best interests (health and economy) at heart!!
Thank you H. 100%! They are there to have our best interests at heart. To represent what we want, not what their corporate deep-pocted funders offshore want.
Thank you Mary
Thanks for your feedback Anonymous. Your’e welcome.
Bless you Mary for bringing this outrage to we readers attention, especially those that distance ourselves from the corrupt MSM. Governments come and Governments go and very little changes. Both the Luxon Govt and the dreadful Ardern mob anchor their ideological policies to the same anthropological climate change nonsense. It’s the greatest lie that’s ever been told where the docile public obediently accept their daily fill of propaganda. I am appalled with how compliant we are to the lies our government fabricate.
Dear readers, these cretins we call politicians are quite prepared to put poison into our food stream to reduce cow farts generating methane gas which is supposed the warm the planet! You just can’t make this shit up. Has anyone noticed that discussion on this topic is verboten? The truth doesn’t mind being questioned but a lie hates being challenged. We have the high priest of Climate Change, Simon Watts, doubling down on our obligation to the Trump shunned Paris Agreement. We watch foreign investors converting our finite pastoral farmland to carbon forests, idiot power company executives hogging more arable land with windmills and solar panels that have proven a disaster all over the world. And now they want to poison us with an insecticide to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
Thanks heaps Rob for your astute comment. We share your outrage and we are determined to stop this dreadful Bill (basically economic and environmental , public health sabotage by bureaucrats in Wellington and nasty National Party stooges who have been trying to strip local councils of their authority and jurisdiction over this issue for so many years and destroy existing GM Free Food Producer Zones and consumer right to choose. Good on yah. Great to see our local councils making submissions against the Gene Technology Bill. Unbelievable that in the Bill it specifically states that they will strip local councils of their aurhotiry and jursidiction re: outdoor GE/GMO experiments, field trials, releases…essentially force risky outdoor GE/GMO experiments on communities and then have NO liability to protect farmers / landowners. https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/northland-council-slams-gene-bills-threat-to-gmo-protected-zone/
Thanks Linda for your feedback to Rob. Councils should definitely be able to represent their people and vote no .
Thank you for your detailed feedback Rob, which is always valued. I agree, it utterly beggars belief in regard to all the matters you raise. Their zero carbon programme actually means zero life, as we all need carbon to live. A shocker. If their madness on “climate change” wasn’t so serious for our people and our country it would be comical. Most of the hot air is from Wellington. They should leave the cows alone. Thanks for your lovely acknowledgement and appreciate you taking the time to respond.
Awesome article and spot on with all your research Mary. Why can’t these politicians see what this is going to do to our people and beautiful country. Or maybe they can and it’s part of an evil agenda. Thank you for exposing their corruption.
Thank you anonymous. So appreciated. Yes, I think some are in on it and others blindly follow. Until the people peacefully rise and say NO.
Many thanks Anonymous! Made my day. Totally agree that we cannot stand idle as this raping and pillaging of our country is carried out. I agree, I think the politicians do see what is being done and are part of the problem. They were there to say no. They don’t seem to be doing that. We must stand together and peacefully and LOUDLY SAY NO.
Great research thank you Mary, it seems we have a mountain to climb here in NZ as the political puppets continue to fill their pockets in the expense of innocent Kiwis. Thank you for being you, and helping expose them, that being the only way we win, exposure.
Many thanks Jeremy. I agree and it seems there is a way to go to get to the summit! Thank you also for your last lovely sentence — comments like that spur me on and definitely lift the spirits.
Was tongue in cheek Mary, when I mentioned that the medicos will be wondering why! Of course the majority know … and yes, that’s even more concerning!
Thanks Jann.
Anything that is bad for the environment is bad for us. If we wouldn’t drink it, then it shouldn’t be on the plants that we intend to consume. Who is asking for this? And what do they have to gain? at the top it always leads back to the same key people, the impacts on health will likely create industry for them elsewhere – guaranteed. Yes I’m bothered by this, time for a peoples enquiry.
Thank you Anonymous. Such commonsense in your first two sentences. Clearly parliament seems to be under other orders that are of extreme detriment to our people and country. We need that tipping point where more wake up and peacefully make their views known, loudly and clearly.
It’s beyond madness, and must be sabotage by treason
Thanks Rolf. Totally agree.
Gosh how could anyone just ignore the short simple statement which puts everything into clear perspective ie If members of parliament and the bureaucrats don’t say no to such madness, then they need to immediately stand down, for they no longer serve the people. Worse, they are guilty of treason to those they pretend to represent. This says it all 1 Thank you Mary for taking the time to again write such a thought p[rovoking piece. !
Thank you Math. Greatly appreciated. Yes, they all need to peacefully stand down. Too much damage is being done.
Another top of the class article Mary. Thank you.
Apathy from all areas of society regarding fundamental rights, good health and the prosperity of their future is the reason NZ is the testing ground for all of this evil…. we need to keep talking, sharing information and saying No.
Thank you for taking the time to give feedback Lisa. Appreciated. Yes, the more that know, the more likely it is that we can halt these destructive policies.
The only reason for them to increase the levels has to be the Gene Tech Bill, it makes no sense otherwise.
I am a conventional farmer that uses Glyphosate so that we can direct drill our crops to stop erosion of our soil in the event of a flood and maintain our soil and its structure. I am still very concerned about it’s use ,especially to terminate crops for harvest.
We thought we had an issue with residual glyphosate or AMPA in the soil when a crop failed after we sowed it 2 weeks after using glyphosate to terminate a cover crop. It has happened twice before. So I had the soil and plants tested for glyphosate residue, we found no trace. But I had also been concerned we were losing earthworms. What I found out through that process was it wasnt Gkyphosate causing the problem in the next crop but the various acetic acids being released from the dying cover crop that were a toxin to the new crops seedlings.
I have also found that a live root in the soil is most important to keep earthworm numbers high and not specifically the use of glyphosate causing earthworms do decline.
I applaud RFK developing a gold plated science method that isn’t captured by big business to study what the truth is.
I always enjoy your articles Mary and as a farmer we are always concerned about maintaining a safe food supply while keeping our soils healthy and resilient for generations to come. All we want is the truth and the safe tools to be better custodians.
Thanks for your feedback Roger. Perhaps you could get in touch with some of the farmers using other options? I grew up on a farm in mid-Canterbury and erosion of the soil was protected in those days with shelter-belts so when the wild Nor-west winds blew across, there was a natural barrier of great pines (usually radiata) that prevented the top soil being lost. Terminating crops or drying them out for harvest never used to occur. I’m not sure who did your testing but it seems strange the glyphosate didn’t show up, as where did it go? We have to avoid this and obtain a consensus among farmers to stop using the product, as they are in the direct firing line for health issues as well. Glyphosate apparently kills everything it touches, except gm-crops and then the super-weeds grow and the soil dies. As I recently learned, it is one molecule different from Agent Orange.Thanks for your honesty Roger and caring enough to reach out, but we do need to halt that glyphosate.
Absolute madness. Makes me so angry
Thanks for your feedback Karen. Channel the understandable anger into action, which I’m sure you’re doing already. Let them know if you can how dangerous it is, particularly to the 8 NZF MPs. Many thanks
blimey madness!! Don’t agree with any glyphosates used in food.
Thanks Louisa for your feedback. Agree, we have to find a better way.
Unconscionable behavior- both in this actually occurring, but also that the press barely talk about it! I would guess anywhere else there would be front page news, exposure and outrage but nothing.
Thanks for your work Mary a lot of info there. I have been following this for 20 years but the uni party just continues to obey their corporate masters regardless of damage to those they supposedly represent. Serious change needed
Thank you for your feedback Annie. Yes, the press is just the mouthpiece now it seems for those with deeper pockets.
Another good and well researched article, there are not a lot of people that really understand how corrupt or government is, I haven’t used glyphosate on my farm for 5 years and follow Ewen Campbell’s recommendations and products
Thanks Mark. Appreciated. Was it just Ewen’s excellent products or did you do more? It would be good for other to know. Do you do crop rotation, regenerative farming, too?
are people aware that it is standard industry practice to spray crops such as wheat with glyphosate just prior to harvest as a “dessicant”?
when i first found out about this practice i was horrified and thought, surely not.
after doing my own investigations in the local environment i found it to be absolutely true. people should know this.
all non organic product has been sprayed with glyphosate a couple of weeks prior to harvest. spread the word
Thanks for that boomfarp. I should have made that very much clearer in the article so it’s great you have here. I shall insert a paragraph on this in the master. But not all farmers do this. Those who use it do though, as I understand it.
let’s just say that “most” do use the chemical desiccation procedure. every paddock of grain crop i have stalked has done it. yet to find one that doesn’t locally. the systemic nature of the glyphosate means that it is throughout the plant at harvest.
Well I guess they and their families eat glyphosate saturated grains and cereals as well. The industrial chemical complex must be all laughing into their organic rolled oats breakfast porridge while looking at their stock prices.
So sad to hear that Anon. Thanks for the feedback.
Loads of work has gone into this post Mary and thank you.
The thing is though lots of money changes hands at a sales level with chemicals like this.
When I was Founder/CEO of Hemp New Zealand and the Hemp Farm brand of products we stressed no glyphosate in the process of growing hemp. Farmers and contractors were not on board but were open as long as they could see another effective way of controlling weeds the can destroy crops.
Myself and 3 employees of Carfields Ashburton even went to the Netherlands to explore organic farming at scale. We all learnt a lot and that yes it is possible to transition to Organics. A man named Bill Quine from Paeroa an expert on organic farming in New Zealand has outstanding knowledge on all form Organics also.
Long story short not more than a season after the trip to the Netherlands myself and the 3 who acquired that knowledge were all fired.
There went the knowledge out the door.
It is also common practice for chemical companies to pay sales people bonuses and even tickets to All Black games for reaching sales targets. So you see the issue runs deep from the control of minds and money.
What a fight we are in. All government and corporate workers are defying the will of the people because they are so I debt to the system enslaved by the chase for money to pay for lifestyle. Normally the next thing a writer would say here is “ but I get it” when in fact I don’t get it. I know the script much better now and I know nothing is going to change unless the system is de-rigged. That might not sound helpful but it has become my honest opinion.
Good on you. Shocking that we have to deal with this incompetance and betrayal from MPI and the National Party and ACT. Kill the Gene Technology Bill! Anyone who wants to undertake risky outdoor GE/GMO experimentation needs to have to prove financial fitness, post a million dollar bond, and be personally and financially accountable for any intended/ unforseen adverse impacts of their EPA approved outdoor activities. This is what all the Northland and Auckland councils require- its not a ban, its just of ensuring the Polluter shall pay, keeping them accountable, a deterrent against rogue irresponsible companies, NZ CRI’s or overseas multionationals.
Thanks Linda. Yes, at the least, ban it. And at the least, for any already permitted, the polluter pays. End of story.
Thanks for your feedback Dave. It is extremely valuable as you are reporting from one of the coalfaces and you were in there and did all you could to turn it around. They fired the wrong people! Yes, it is a lot about “Follow the money” that’s for sure. That phrase should read “Follow the money and lose the soul.”
“What a fight we are in” is so true. It beggars belief. The system does need to be peacefully dissolved. Agree. Thanks again Dave.
Check out this excellent article The rush to open up GE technology in New Zealand is fraught with risks, says Hawke’s Bay farmer Jane White. https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/opinion/a-race-to-the-bottom-wed-gladly-lose/
Excellent article: The Precautionary Approach is outdated?
What a porky!
Physicians & Scientists for Global Responsibility Charitable Trust (NZ)
contact: Jodie Bruning, PSGR trustee
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Many times I have tried to go into the petition to sign it as I too am appalled at what our so-called govt is doing.
The petition won’t open for me to be able to sign it. Suspicious or what…?
I am sorry you have had this trouble Karen. But thanks so much for trying. I will alert the person who told me of it. Thanks for your feedback!
Fantastic article Mary, thank you for everything you do!! 🙏
Scott Walker
The hundredth comment, from a doctor: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14787539/injury-lawyer-popular-home-accessory-causes-health-problems.html
Thanks yet again for your excellent ongoing work Mary. To confirm what you’ve said, here is a study, just published, that details the carcinogenicity of glyphosate (to rats) – many types of cancers after exposure to so-called “safe levels” of glyphosate. Keep up the good work.
https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01187-2
GM crops fuel rise in pesticide use, despite early promises study shows” “Drawing on data from four GM crops – Bt cotton, herbicide-tolerant (HT) soybean, HT and/or Bt maize, and HT canola, the researchers – including agricultural development expert Prof Glenn Davis Stone from Washington and Lee University and Bt cotton expert K. R. Kranthi of the International Cotton Advisory Committee – traced the surge in chemical use over three decades.
They found a paradox: while GM seeds were supposed to reduce pesticide use, their introduction caused pesticide use to soar.” The study:
Flachs A et al (2025). GM crops and the Jevons paradox: Induced innovation, systemic effects and net pesticide increases from pesticide-decreasing crops. Journal of Agrarian Change. DOI: 10.1111/joac.70006. https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20553
16 May 2025
A race to the bottom we’d gladly lose
https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/opinion/a-race-to-the-bottom-wed-gladly-lose/
See also this excellent article (highly significant)
by Owen Jennings
convenor of the Methane Science Accord, former President Fed Farmers of NZ, etc
“WHY the indecent haste Prime Minister?”
“National dominated governments over the years have been cautious, even timid on reform so it comes as a shock that our usually risk averse Prime Minister is leading a strong charge to deregulate the law controlling Genetically Modified Organisms. It is a matter of grave concern affecting all Kiwis.”
https://www.nzcpr.com/why-the-indecent-haste-prime-minister/
Thanks for the references Linda.