GE Archive

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  Nature 2, Monsanto 0 – GE fails again

  
  
  
  We know already that genetically modified crops do not improve yields. Surprisingly, Monsanto has admitted that one of their pest resistant cotton crops no longer resists the pests. How long did it take nature to thumb its nose at Monsanto? Monsanto’s advice to farmers? Use our Bollgard II version, it’s better. But the science doesn’t back [...] read more
  March 11, 2010 10:38 am - 33 Comments
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  Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops

  
  
  
  As usual, the title says it all: GE crops are no where near to delivering on their promises: Failure to Yield is the first report to closely evaluate the overall effect genetic engineering has had on crop yields in relation to other agricultural technologies. For years the biotechnology industry has trumpeted that it will feed the world, [...] read more
  April 18, 2009 8:21 am - 8 Comments
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  Another week, another GE approval

  
  
  
  There it was again this week, nestled into a little side bar on A3 of the Dom Post. “GE onion field test” Once again, while most of the media is busy watching the new masters of the Executive Wing, ERMA is quietly saying ‘yes’ to a GE future for New Zealand. It can only end in [...] read more
  November 28, 2008 2:26 pm - 23 Comments
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  Genetic engineering myths

  
  
  
  Food Democracy has a quiz about genetic engineering myths that begins: Many pro-GM commentators hail the technology as the solution to the current food crisis because of its ability to reduce fertilizer use and help farmers cope with problems like drought, salinity or flooding. After 20 years of GM research, how many GM drought tolerant, [...] read more
  September 15, 2008 4:58 pm - 6 Comments
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  AgResearch applies for GE sheep, cows and pigs

  
  
  
  Genetic Engineering is back, with AgResearch making a massive application to genetically engineer a wide range of animals, plus human and monkey cells. I really thought this story would have been all over the media by now and was going to link to articles letting news agencies tell the story.  But it hasn’t yet (Except [...] read more
  August 8, 2008 3:56 pm - 37 Comments
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  USDA Suspends Pesticide Reporting to Benefit Monsanto

  
  
  
  Celsias reports that the safety of our food supply is under further threat by the USDA’s decision to stop reporting on pesticide use. On May 21, the US Department of Agriculture, or USDA, announced that it would stop its annual publication on the kinds and amounts of pesticides applied to crops in the U.S. This annual Agricultural [...] read more
  June 23, 2008 11:30 am - 14 Comments
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  GE Rears Its Head as Saviour of World Food Emergency

  
  
  
  It was to be expected, but still a shock, to find Bill Gates and the Rockefeller foundation at the conference (they weren’t excluded like the NGOs) launching a new bold sounding “Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. In partnership with various UN agencies, aimed at ‘lifting millions out of poverty and hunger by increasing [...] read more
  June 8, 2008 2:13 pm - 29 Comments
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  NZ cows eat … palm oil?

  
  
  
  For those of you who have followed the farming practices in the USA, and in particular the stories about cattle that are made to eat feed supplements rather than their genetic preference for grass, may have taken some comfort that New Zealand cows are renowned for being grass fed. Except, as it turns out, they are [...] read more
  April 30, 2008 10:51 am - 6 Comments
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  GE breaks its promise

  
  
  
  The promise of GE was that it was going to feed the starving masses. Now a UN report that 400 scientists spent four years helping to write criticises GE saying it has little role to play in helping to feed the world and that scientific time and energy time instead needs to be invested [...] read more
  April 17, 2008 9:59 am - 12 Comments
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  Government doesn’t care about GE Royal Commission recommendations

  
  
  
  Research organisation Sustainable Future, has just released a new report showing the Government has implemented only 20 of the 49 recommendations of the 2001 Royal Commission on Genetic Modification. The report concludes: These findings show that the New Zealand Government is not currently pursuing the strategic option of ‘preserving opportunities’ as proposed by the Commissioners and [...] read more
  April 16, 2008 10:32 am - 10 Comments