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Greenpeace is slating the National Party\u2019s announcement that it would abandon New Zealand\u2019s GE Free status \u201cjust to provide yet another means of delaying climate action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cChristopher Luxon\u2019s announcement that the National Party would abandon New Zealand\u2019s GE Free food producer status just to provide the dairy industry with yet another means for delaying emissions reduction is a dangerous joke.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThese are not serious people,\u201d says Rose. \u201cThere are no GE technofixes that will address the climate crisis. Many of New Zealand\u2019s exporters rely on the competitive advantage that we have as a GE Free producer, and the release of genetically modified organisms risks ecological disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need wacky science experiments, we already know how to reduce agricultural emissions. Whoever forms the next Government must act urgently to reduce cow numbers and phase out synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Greenpeace has long opposed the release of genetically modified organisms<\/a> into the environment and food chain, saying that GE should be confined to the laboratory.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThousands of New Zealanders marched in the streets to keep New Zealand GE Free, and it has effectively been that way ever since. We are proud to be Ge Free, it\u2019s of great value, and we will not sit by and have it thrown away for the sake of more dairy industry profits and predatory delay,\u201d says Rose.<\/p>\n\n

Although there is technically no ban on genetically engineered crops in New Zealand, there are good strong regulations in place that make it very difficult to get approval for field trials or commercial crops.<\/p>\n\n

The Greenpeace Science EU Unit warns<\/a> that the use of newer \u2018gene editing\u2019 techniques like CRISPR-Cas could not only exacerbate the negative effects of industrial farming on nature, animals and people, but it could effectively turn both nature and ourselves (through the food we eat) into a gigantic genetic engineering experiment with unknown, potentially irrevocable outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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