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The NZ First intention to reach a compromise on the terms of the Gene Technology Bill would be a grave mistake

Guy Hatchard -

The NZ First intention to reach a compromise on the terms of the Gene Technology Bill would be a grave mistake. Associate Minister for Agriculture...

A Long Essential Read: On the brink of disaster—A watershed moment

Guy Hatchard -

If enacted, the Gene Technology Bill will take us further away from our Kiwi foundational principles and our cultural heritage of independence and care. The...

Gene Tech Bill faces further delays amid ongoing scrutiny

Daily Telegraph NZ -

PM Christopher Luxon has rejected claims that New Zealand First is stalling the government’s Gene Technology Bill, saying delays reflect the need to carefully...

What are they actually putting in our food? Genetic modification in the low fat food marketing megabusiness

Guy Hatchard -

You may have noticed a profusion of packaged goods which claim to be healthy because they are ‘low fat’. Weight loss products command a massive global...

How the A.I. and Biotech alliance will affect New Zealand

Guy Hatchard -

An article published in Nature on July 30 entitled CRISPR-GPT for agentic automation of gene-editing experiments explains how genetic modification of human and plant cell lines...

The unthinking faith in biotechnology and A.I.

Guy Hatchard -

In his 2017 book ‘The Strange Death of Europe’ Douglas Murray argues that we have lost our sense of purpose. Fuelled by rational and scientific...

An urgent open letter to all New Zealand First Members of Parliament – Updated July 2025

Mary Hobbs -

It is easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone. — Mahatma Gandhi This month, your Party will require you to...

Government investment in AI & biotech includes research into “insect larvae-based food development”

Daily Telegraph NZ -

The Government has announced a $24 million investment into artificial intelligence and biotechnology research, partnering with Singapore on projects aimed at healthy ageing and...

An urgent Open Letter to all Members of Parliament

Mary Hobbs -

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a...

Open Letter To the Hon. Winston Peters, Party Leader and NZ Foreign Minister, and NZ First MPs

Guy Hatchard -

Dear Winston Peters and NZ First MPs I understand the Health Select Committee is due to report on the Gene Technology Bill in the next...

Auckland protest on Saturday to target Fonterra over support for Gene Tech Bill

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Auckland will see a peaceful protest this Saturday as advocacy group GE Honesty rallies opposition to the Government’s controversial Gene Tech Bill. The protest is...

When Sciencing is all we need

J. R. Bruning -

No wonder public trust in government is in freefall. This week the Farmers Weekly in a poll asked readers ‘Should the government be showing more...

The desire to stay alive and the capacity to give birth are under threat

Guy Hatchard -

After five and a half years examining pandemic evidence, it is clear who should be winning the argument, but it is also apparent that...

How sick is New Zealand? What should be done?

Guy Hatchard -

Sometimes the veil is lifted and you get a glimpse into what our government is planning for us in the future. On Monday Prime Minister...

Supermarket vigil in Silverdale to support GE food labelling and end to Gene Technology Bill

Daily Telegraph NZ -

A peaceful vigil is set to take place outside Pak'N Save Silverdale on Saturday 14 June, from 11am to 12 noon, urging clearer labelling...

An icy wind blows through the research labs of biotechnology

Guy Hatchard -

If you read the newspapers you may not know it, but biotechnology is going through a process of collapse. According to authoritative pharmaceutical industry online...

Supermarket vigils in Orewa to protest Gene Tech Bill and defend GE-free food choices

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Peaceful supermarket vigils are set to take place in Orewa on 31st May, as part of a growing grassroots campaign against the proposed Gene...

When the economic growth agency captures biotech regulation: ‘A serious question of science’

J. R. Bruning -

A remarkable situation has arisen in New Zealand. The agency tasked with economic growth, that controls the science funding budget, wants to have the power...

Supermarket vigils aim to raise awareness over Gene Technology Bill

Daily Telegraph NZ -

New Zealanders concerned about genetically engineered food and the controversial Gene Technology Bill will gather for peaceful supermarket vigils, beginning this Saturday, 17 May. The...

A Licence To Kill

Guy Hatchard -

The average number of sunshine hours in NZ is above 2,000 per year. In the UK it averages around 1,350. Incredibly, the Telegraph reports that the British...

Charity calls for inquiry into MBIE and Judith Collins over Gene Tech and science reform process

Daily Telegraph NZ -

New Zealand charity seeks public inquiries to investigate the conduct of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the responsible Minister, the...

Give us our daily bread, but please stop genetically modifying the yeast

Guy Hatchard -

There is a poem written by Harry Baker. If ever I die and thee be not sure that I’m dead Just put butter and jam on...

Where have we arrived in the food chain and where do we go from here?

Guy Hatchard -

A study undertaken in the EU entitled “Pesticide residues with hazard classifications relevant to non-target species including humans are omnipresent in the environment and...

Guy Hatchard: Sometimes civilisations are overwhelmed by their own excesses

Guy Hatchard -

If some of you are still thinking that the nation’s health is built on universal vaccination protocols you might examine the results of research...

An Open Letter to all New Zealand First Members of Parliament – The Gene Tech Bill, Part 4

Mary Hobbs -

If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a...

Weight loss drug enables you to swap one disease for dozens of others

Guy Hatchard -

The NZ Government has announced the approval of weight loss drug Wegovy. In an interview with the Herald, Associate Health Minister David Seymour (soon to...

How biotech reinvented itself, hid the dangers and pretended safety

Guy Hatchard -

‘Sir’ Ashley Bloomfield, formerly Director General of Health and the public face of Covid in NZ, has taken to the media to warn us...

The truth will set us free

Guy Hatchard -

On the so-called 5th anniversary of Covid (which evidence shows actually started circulating around five and half years ago), two big German newspapers—Zeit and...

Text of our oral presentation to the Health Select Committee on the Gene Technology Bill

Guy Hatchard -

The following is the text of our oral submission to the NZ Health Select Committee on the Gene Technology Bill made on Monday. We were...

The Gene Tech Bill – What’s the rush?

Mary Hobbs -

From caring comes courage. — Laozi The Gene Tech Bill had its first Reading on 17 December 2024, the last day that Parliament sat before...

The failure of the parliamentary process in the age of biotechnology

Guy Hatchard -

This article has two parts: the problem and our response. Authoritative mathematical biologist Alex Washburne has published an article on Substack entitled “The Strength of...

When worlds collide the garden offers some lessons for our future

Guy Hatchard -

After fifty years of broken biotech promises, we need a dose of reality. I was working in the garden yesterday and cleared a few noxious...

Genetic engineering juggernaut Down Under

Steve 'Snoopman' Edwards -

And why the New Zealand Monkey is set to become the harvestable Big Data product. New Zealand is fast-tracking a far-reaching totalitarian regulatory framework. In...

Urgent: What Kiwis need to do to avoid the GMOs invading our supermarkets

Guy Hatchard -

After the bombshell information in our last two releases (see here and here) everyone has to consider their position very carefully. We reported the results of a recent...

Japanese consumer group ‘shocked and concerned’ over Gene Technology Bill

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Japanese consumers are voicing strong opposition to the possibility of genetically modified (GM) foods from New Zealand, expressing surprise and concern over potential changes...

Norwegian seafood company offers bounty after 27,000 farmed salmon escape

Daily Telegraph NZ -

Norwegian seafood giant Mowi is offering a 500 kroner (about USD $44) reward per fish to registered fishermen after 27,000 farmed Atlantic salmon escaped...

The Gene Technology Bill will allow gene edited microorganisms to be labelled as natural and sold to an unwitting public

Guy Hatchard -

Last chance to have your say. Submissions close on Monday 17th February. A year ago Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate co-inventor of CRISPR gene editing technology...

An Act of War on New Zealanders – The Gene Technology Bill, Part 2

Mary Hobbs -

Nature is Life — MH This is article is Part 2 of three (for now) on the Gene Technology Bill. In Part 1 the irreversible...

The NZ pandemic experience offers a lesson for the world, but not the one our government is busy promoting

Guy Hatchard -

The New Zealand pandemic experience potentially offers huge lessons for the world because our population was vaccinated BEFORE Covid infection took hold. This was because...

Why is Judith Collins and the New Zealand Government so pro-Ukraine?

Penny Marie -

Judith Collins' (and the NZ Govt) support for Ukraine is concerning... let's take a peek into George Soros' connection to Ukrainian politics. Why did National...

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