Right to Choose GM Free Food on the Line with Free Trade Deal?
Friday, November 11, 2011
Will losing the right to choose GM free food be a price of the next and biggest free trade deal? The US has made clear that a priority for …
Will GM Free be Free Traded Away?
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Will losing the right to choose GM Free food be a price of the next and biggest free trade deal?
The US has made clear that …
Even Bigger Emission Subsidies Recommended by ETS Review
Thursday, September 15, 2011
With each change to the ETS, the subsidy regime is expanded and the taxpayer picks up more of the tab, while there is minimal impact on gross emissions.
On top …
Government sidelines nanotechnology report that challenges regulators
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Government has backed away from any serious programme to ensure risks arising from the use of nanotechnology are properly regulated.
Having commissioned an independent report that identifies regulatory gaps, …
Semantically Engineered Grasses
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Despite ongoing market resistance to use of the technology in the food chain and in key export markets, Pastoral Genomics and AgResearch are each committing tens of millions of …
Hide and Seek
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Developers Skirt Around Detectability of Cisgenic GMOs.
Lack of transparency by the GM food industry has been a driver of market resistance to its products. Research in New Zealand and …
New Zealand GM Pasture Grass R+D
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Three Programmes and a New Technology
Tens of millions of public science dollars have been directed to the development of GM pasture species in New Zealand over the last two …
Betting the farm
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
If New Zealand chose not to approve the use of GM grasses developed by Pastoral Genomics, no economic penalty is expected as a non-GM technique could provide the same …
No Economic Penalty if GM Grass Bypassed
Monday, June 20, 2011
If New Zealand chose not to approve the use of GM grasses developed by Pastoral Genomics, no economic penalty is expected as a non-GM technique could provide the same …
