MPs get free lunch
Thursday, 19 July 2001, 2:38 pm
Press Release: GE Free NZ
PRESS RELEASE
MPs get free lunch.
Delicious organic
apples in green and red gift boxes arrived at Parliament
buildings today. A free lunch for MPs with a strong message
from GE Free NZ Hawke’s Bay branch.
Spokesperson Kay
Keates says that that 10% of pipfruit growers in Hawke’s Bay
are now producing crops organically and over-all the organic
industry here in Hawke’s Bay is worth 10 million dollars and
still in its infancy. Growers cannot keep up with the demand
she says, both locally and globally.
However , it is not
just organic growers who need reassuring from the government
. Many conventional growers hold fears that their crop could
be contaminated should genetic engineered material be
released into the environment. Mrs Keates says that consumer
and grower resistance and an increasing awareness of health
and safety mean that genetic engineering should not be
introduced into New Zealand.
ENDS
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