Our export success has been achieved without failed GE technologies adopted overseas,” said Claire Bleakley, GE-Free NZ president. The direction this group is promoting is dependent on synthetic biology technology (GE), chemical systems and highly processed value-added products. The chair of Te Puna Whakaaronui, Lain Jager has said that NZ will miss out if we do not adopt laboratory created foods produced through synthetic biology, like GE microbe fermentation. Overseas use of GE has benefited biotechnology companies but poor performance of GE crops has been costly for the environment and farmers. We need to clean up man made pollution not introduce another pollution problem for the next generation with GE and synthetic biology.

Source: Stuff June 03, 2022 00:58 UTC