Comments on: The unbearable niceness of being Green http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/ hopping along the corridors of power Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:16:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: bjchip http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/#comment-8325 bjchip Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:04:09 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/#comment-8325 Katie - Actually you managed a redundancy and an oxymoron in the same phrase. <i>Wild Greens, and other anarchic organisations ...</i> VERY impressive :-) Me, I just don't like one-way streets. respectfully BJ Katie - Actually you managed a redundancy and an oxymoron in the same phrase. Wild Greens, and other anarchic organisations … VERY impressive :-)

Me, I just don’t like one-way streets.

respectfully
BJ

]]> By: katie http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/#comment-8318 katie Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:53:58 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/#comment-8318 Frog- one of the best-case outcomes to my mind of this election has been precisely that the Greens are no longer tied down by an agreement not to cause a stir on GE issues; the Moratorium ended, and our hands were tied, despite the best efforts of many good campaigners. Interestingly, the issue of disability rights with regard to GE has been bubbling away in the hinterland; many disability advocate groups have spoken out about the sinister nature of GE-medicine research; the discrimination against disabilities will go all the way back to the womb, with eugenicist policies reminiscent of Hitler's ethnic cleansing programmes. Te Papa's current exhibition, from the Natural History Museum in NY, but sponsored by Merck, Sharp & Dohme, is a vivid example of the kind of spin on GE applications being put out by industry investors. "OOooh, look at the poor little baby with the incurable genetic disease, isn't it great to see them finding a cure for that". Well, no they haven't found it yet, they're just investing in vivisection and playing with people's emotions to get popular suport for the labs that do the experiments. Much of the exhibit refers to American experience as inclusive of the viewer - "us" and "we" statements that surely could have been edited out of material, but create a false sense of congruity between USA and NZ experiences of food safety and GMO uptake. Wild Greens, and other anarchic organisations (?oxymoron :-D) are watching with interest to see what will happen as the various regulatory bodies attempt to coagulate the Australian and NZ markets into one grouping of Trans-national bodies, ready to put the USA's FDA regulations in place as de facto standards for the Ausralasian markets. These standards downplay the efficacy of our producers in maintaining Ge-free and GMO-free status in goods produced in NZ. We can only wait to see if the new Minister for the Environment, David Benson-Pope, is as effete in his understanding of the science around GE as his predecessor, the Hon Marion Hobbs. Frog-
one of the best-case outcomes to my mind of this election has been precisely that the Greens are no longer tied down by an agreement not to cause a stir on GE issues; the Moratorium ended, and our hands were tied, despite the best efforts of many good campaigners.

Interestingly, the issue of disability rights with regard to GE has been bubbling away in the hinterland; many disability advocate groups have spoken out about the sinister nature of GE-medicine research; the discrimination against disabilities will go all the way back to the womb, with eugenicist policies reminiscent of Hitler’s ethnic cleansing programmes.

Te Papa’s current exhibition, from the Natural History Museum in NY, but sponsored by Merck, Sharp & Dohme, is a vivid example of the kind of spin on GE applications being put out by industry investors. “OOooh, look at the poor little baby with the incurable genetic disease, isn’t it great to see them finding a cure for that”.
Well, no they haven’t found it yet, they’re just investing in vivisection and playing with people’s emotions to get popular suport for the labs that do the experiments. Much of the exhibit refers to American experience as inclusive of the viewer - “us” and “we” statements that surely could have been edited out of material, but create a false sense of congruity between USA and NZ experiences of food safety and GMO uptake.

Wild Greens, and other anarchic organisations (?oxymoron :-D) are watching with interest to see what will happen as the various regulatory bodies attempt to coagulate the Australian and NZ markets into one grouping of Trans-national bodies, ready to put the USA’s FDA regulations in place as de facto standards for the Ausralasian markets. These standards downplay the efficacy of our producers in maintaining Ge-free and GMO-free status in goods produced in NZ.

We can only wait to see if the new Minister for the Environment, David Benson-Pope, is as effete in his understanding of the science around GE as his predecessor, the Hon Marion Hobbs.

]]> By: even http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/#comment-8308 even Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:23:37 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/#comment-8308 Corporate media silmultaneoulsy weakens democracy by encouraging people not to care through an unending cynical and derogatory attitude to good intentions in parliament, and only presenting issues through a corporate lens, that is if the issues are lucky enough to be presented! Bah! More people would vote green for instance if attention was put on the facts that show our connectivity to the environment, that the no argument unregulated free market ideology has only really been in ascendence in Nz for last 15-20 years and for world at large bit over half a century give or take. And it's given us Wars of unprecendented scale and carnage, destruction of ecosystem that have supported life including ours on the planet for like eva.., different weather patterns, antartic mayby shrinking beyound point of no return, and for the so called lucky ones in advanced societies, the quality of life you'd expect of people's eating food prepared in laboratories and chained to god knows how many different medications. But having a dsyfunctional population is easier to suppress and allows for greater profits for the few, make no mistake! Corporate media silmultaneoulsy weakens democracy by encouraging people not to care through an unending cynical and derogatory attitude to good intentions in parliament, and only presenting issues through a corporate lens, that is if the issues are lucky enough to be presented! Bah!
More people would vote green for instance if attention was put on the facts that show our connectivity to the environment, that the no argument unregulated free market ideology has only really been in ascendence in Nz for last 15-20 years and for world at large bit over half a century give or take. And it’s given us Wars of unprecendented scale and carnage, destruction of ecosystem that have supported life including ours on the planet for like eva.., different weather patterns, antartic mayby shrinking beyound point of no return, and for the so called lucky ones in advanced societies, the quality of life you’d expect of people’s eating food prepared in laboratories and chained to god knows how many different medications.
But having a dsyfunctional population is easier to suppress and allows for greater profits for the few, make no mistake!

]]> By: SPC http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/#comment-8268 SPC Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:29:05 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2005/10/26/the-unbearable-niceness-of-being-green/#comment-8268 Not surprising from the ODT, some on the right are agitating for some sense of grievance amongst both Maori and the Greens against Labour. It is they, Greens and MP, who can provide an alternative support to Labour instead of United and NZF - each group would give 61 votes. Not surprising from the ODT, some on the right are agitating for some sense of grievance amongst both Maori and the Greens against Labour.

It is they, Greens and MP, who can provide an alternative support to Labour instead of United and NZF - each group would give 61 votes.

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