Food
Food is one of the most import things in our lives, and yet we often have no idea what we are eating, where it has come from or what it will do to us. The Green Party wants our food to be safe to eat, properly labelled and free of GE, antibiotics and pesticides. We have run a major Food Revolution campaign for the last two years, a well as winning government programmes for the organics industry and school nutrition.
What's New
Photos needed of GE research downsides
08 Sep 2008The Green Party is calling on AgResearch to publicly release photographs of deformed calves so the public can see downsides of genetic engineering as well as hearing and reading the Crown Research Institute’s spin.
Deformed calves don't enhance NZ's image, AgResearch
04 Sep 2008
A huge press statement by AgResearch today in which it tries to justify its application to genetically engineer a wide range of animals, plus human and monkey cells, inadvertently shows sad downsides to GE research such as deformed foetuses and calves. It admits a less than 9 percent live birth rate, aborted deformed foetuses, deformed calves and gangrenous udders but strangely denies there are animal welfare concerns.
We need to see photographs, urge Greens
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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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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