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GM Discussion : October 13, 2003
GM Discussion : October 13, 2003
1. Learning the lessons:
the Canadians & GM canola
2. Males doomed to extinction,
expert says
3. Waitangi Tribunal reserves GE decision
4. Australian regulator clears two breaches of GM
law
5. Minister says protests won't force policy
change
6. Pro-GE group braves Auckland
demonstration
7. Is it too soon to lift the
moratorium?
8. Biotenz News Update - 10 October 2003
9. PM says GE policy not for changing
10. Protest
turnout well down on expectations
11. Push on with GE,
Wrightson urges
Learning the lessons: the Canadians & GM
canola
Has Canada damaged its export markets by
introducing genetically-modified (GM) crop varieties? Will
New Zealand's agricultural exports disappear if they follow
suit? The answer is no. But the Sustaina...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4959
Males
doomed to extinction, expert says
Women had better learn
how to program the VCR and assemble flat-pack furniture in
the next 125,000 years because that's when the last bloke
will disappear from the earth, according to a new book.
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4956
Waitangi
Tribunal reserves GE decision
The Waitangi Tribunal has
reserved its decision over whether it will grant an urgent
hearing on claims that the lifting of the GE moratorium on
October 29 is a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.A
j...
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Australian
regulator clears two breaches of GM law
Australia's gene
technology regulator has investigated and cleared two
breaches of laws governing the use of genetically altered
material. The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator
(OGTR), in it...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4951
Minister
says protests won't force policy change
Environment
Minister Marian Hobbs has called the Green Party obtuse
after accusing her of making bizarre claims about genetic
engineering (GE) paying for health and education. Green
co-leader Jean...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4949
Pro-GE
group braves Auckland demonstration
Near Aotea Square a
brave pro-GE group carried banners saying "You see hurting,
I see helping" and "It's my body I'll eat GE if I want to".
At one stage an anti-GE protester ran up to the men and
ripp...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4948
Is
it too soon to lift the moratorium?
“Is it too soon to
lift the GE moratorium?,” the Sunday Star-Times asks in its
Soapbox column. Dr William Rolleston, Chairman of the Life
Sciences Network says no, while co-founder of Mothers
Against ...
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Biotenz
News Update - 10 October 2003
The latest issue of
Biotenz News Update has been posted to the Biotenz website
Index:Minister Announces ERMA AppointmentsStudy Looks into
NZ ImageUpdate from 2003 ConferenceUpdate on
Bi...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4944
PM
says GE policy not for changing
Prime Minister Helen
Clark says the Government is not going to change its genetic
engineering policy despite weekend protests. Thousands of
demonstrators marched in Auckland, Wellington and other
...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4943
Protest
turnout well down on expectations
Official Police
estimates of the numbers of anti-GM protestors are much
lower than the numbers being claimed by activist
organisations.Early estimates by Police had the numbers in
the Auckland cro...
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4942
Push
on with GE, Wrightson urges
Rural services giant
Wrightson used the platform of its annual meeting yesterday
to issue a stern edict to the Government - do not back down
on lifting the GE moratorium writes Paula Oliver in the NZ
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http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4939
From the LSN news team
Francis Wevers - Executive
Director
Christine Ross - Communications Assistant,
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