Primary Industries NZ Summit: the home stretch. ⭐Panel discussion on GMOs and the potential for these in NZ 🧬Regulators bark, retailers bite: opinions and anecdotes vary in whether customers/countries will buy from NZ if we use GMOs. EU and Australia utilise and import GMOs, with no noticeable impact on trade 🧬there is potential for GMOs to benefit or harm animal health and welfare, plant health and resilience, climate impacts etc, and we need to fully understand the impacts of these decisions. 🧬Biotech is a tool NZ cannot currently use. Our current regulatory system makes it difficult to test containment GMOs in the field so we don't yet know if they'll be beneficial, neutral, or negative. 🧬Regulation will be key to managing any risks from biotech/GE/GMO. This will include safeguards between commercialisation, environment, and producers/processors who opt for a non-GMO position. 🧬Education of the general public and rural sector is vital to this conversation. We have the learnings of the rest of the world to draw on. ⭐ The Aotearoa Circle report on Modern Genetic Technology: Applications in Aotearoa Food and Fibre Production is a good read if you have an interest in regulatory scenarios for GE in NZ. #pinz2024 #biotech #gmo
Kylie Horomia
4mo
It's interesting as it's been a topic of discussion in the conference circuit for a few years now. It will be interesting to see when it becomes less discussion and more action and what the next steps are - one way or the other.
Farmer at Westridge Farm, Deep thinking, Systems thinking, 🇳🇿 Adopting Regenerative Farming systems for soil, plant, animal & world health.
4mo“🧬there is potential for GMOs to benefit animal health and welfare, plant health and resilience, climate impacts etc” this is an illusion and delusion as you push farmers to adopt more techniques to treat symptoms at more expense to the farmer and communities