Our submission elaborates on the differences between conventional selective breeding techniques & gene editing - as does Prof Heinemanns. Gene editing (incl SDN-1) can cause unintended mutations in species, and put DNA from one species into another, by accident - as in the hornless cattle incident.

It is worth reading Prof Jack Heinemann and his teams subs on this. They argue SDN-1 is a powerful GE tool capable of creating GMOs. The exemption of it, as proposed in the bill, would remove all oversight, tracking and accountability of GMOs created by it. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Sorry but that's not right - our subs argues the opposite of that. SDN-1 is a powerful GE tool that can introduce foreign transgenes into the genome of a species in the same way older GE techniques create transgenic GMOs, and it has already done so. For example: theecologist.org/2019/aug/21/...

This is our submission on it for more info www.greenpeace.org/static/plane...

Hey Manu. The Bill proposes to exempt gene editing techniques including SDN-1, from regulation altogether. If exempt SDN-1 can be be used to create GMOs outside the lab with no oversight. The Select Committee recommended an amendment to that but we're yet to see if the Govt will accept it.

Now David Seymour & co want to make it even easier for chemical cowboys to put more dangerous pesticides on our food and into our environment, to get away with it.
26,000+ have said HELL NO.
Sign the open letter action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/gly...

One company illegally sprayed the organophosphate pesticide, methamidophos, leaving residues at 30x the legal limit on food.
That pesticide is so toxic it’s now banned.
But sure, let’s keep cracking down on poor people stealing food they need to survive while agribusiness crooks walk free.

4/ Submissions are due 27 July – follow the link to make yours now. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

3/ This is not policymaking in the public interest – it’s corporate pillage. It's Luxon's govt yet again working to make multinational mining giants and their offshore shareholders rich by letting them loot Aotearoa, poison our water, destroy native habitats and extract more climate killing coal.

2/ Wetlands, forests and protected ecosystems are all on the chopping block. And official documents show only two industry lobby groups – Straterra (the mining lobbyists) and the Quarrying lobby group – were consulted. There was no consultation with Māori or environmental groups. #DefendTeTiriti