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Save the Whitebait (fritter)
14 Aug 2008On the eve of the whitebait season, the Green Party is calling on farmers, councils and the Government to protect whitebait habitat from the impacts of livestock and industry.
Petition calls on Govt to protect Pacific’s tuna fisheries
12 Aug 2008The Green Party is launching a petition calling on the Government to take urgent action to halt the over-exploitation of the Pacific's tuna fisheries.
Food Supply and Climate Change
Sue Kedgley interviewing acclaimed food writer Michael Pollan, talking about food and climate change, and why we need to support local food production.
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AgResearch aims to spread GE animals around NZ
07 Aug 2008
A huge application to genetically engineer a wide range of animals, plus human and monkey cells, side-steps a government promise to deal with GE applications on a case by case basis. It could allow AgResearch to develop unlimited numbers of GE animals without telling us what alterations they are making.
Links
Food Links
"The Future of Food" DVD is an excellent documentary which examines the impact of genetic engineering on the future of food, as well as the increasing globalisation and centralisation of our food supplies.
Safe Food Campaign - The Safe Food Campaign is a nationwide organisation which campaigns for safer, healthier food. Information about additives, GE food, pesticides, irradiation, fluoridation and more. Recent information includes articles about canola oil, aspartame and myths about GE food.
NZ True Food Guide - from Greenpeace New Zealand, an excellent database of the GE status of food.
Dangers Of Genetic Engineering - excellent resource from the Mothers for Natural Law who are campaigning for labelling in the US. They have done a lot of research on the food industry and offer tips to identifying brands.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand - the former Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) was renamed on On 1 July 2002. Please change any links to the new website www.foodstandards.gov.au - Their email addresses also changed to the format firstname.lastname@foodstandards.gov.au but their phone numbers and address remained the same.
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