Neal Wallace of the Otago Daily Times writes about warnings that NZ’s pasture-based farming system might have to change. Stephen […]
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Business Day/NZPA: GE pasture trial concerns
Kent Atkinson (NZPA) reports in Business Day on the upcoming application by the Pastoral Genomics group for a conditional release […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Farmers, exporters warn GM animals could damage ‘brand New Zealand’
Eloise Gibson reports in the NZ Herald on concerns that the development and use of genetically modified animals in New […]
Continue readingNZ Herald/NZPA: GE plants promoted as ‘cisgenic’
New Zealand scientists are preparing to begin applications for the use of ‘cisgenic’ pasturage – clover and ryegrass which has […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Scientists plan human genes for cows, goats
Eloise Gibson reports in the New Zealand Herald on a proposal to put human genes into livestock with the aim […]
Continue readingDom Post: GE cows face death if super milk rejected
Kiran Chug reports in the Dominion Post that AgResearch may have to slaughter genetically modified cows if a current application […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: GM forage, the CRI Taskforce report and awards entries
Leading scientists examine GM issue As part of a Science Media Centre briefing for journalists to be held on Tuesday, […]
Continue readingWaikato Times: AgResearch chief accused of grovelling
Chris Gardner of the Waikato Times reports that a senior soil scientist feels that Andy West has been grovelling recently […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: The CRI Taskforce, a sequenced methanogen, non-smoking NZ and GM
CRI Taskforce set to give its verdict The CRI Taskforce, set up by the Government to review the structure of […]
Continue readingNo fireworks at public GMO forum
I’m pleasantly surprised to report that — contrary to some expectations — the public forum held at Te Papa last […]
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