Soil & Health Media Releases

The Soil & Health Association actively campaigns for change to create an Organic New Zealand.

Link to all Soil & Health Press Releases

Contacts

The Association employs Steffan Browning as our spokesperson to represent us in the media. He can be contacted in regard to all of our media releases and campaigns.

Steffan Browning
Phone: 021 725 655
Email: steffan@buyorganic.co.nz

The people listed below can also be contacted regarding GE-free, additives in food, pesticides and organics.

Dr Elvira Dommisse, Soil & Health Association Co-chair and Former Crop & Food Scientist
Phone: 03 9422 748
Email: elvira@clear.net.nz

Claire Bleakley, President GE Free NZ in food and environment
Phone: 06 308 9842, 027 348 6731
Email: p.bleakley@orcon.net.nz
www.gefree.org.nz

Alison White, Co-convenor Safe Food Campaign
Phone: 04 476 8607, 021 1699 120
alison@safefood.org.nz
www.safefood.org.nz

Dr Meriel Watts, Pesticide Action Network Aotearoa
Phone: 027 602 3194
Email: merielwatts@xtra.co.nz
www.panap.net

Organics Aotearoa New Zealand - Organic sector umbrella group
Phone: 04 890 3769
www.oanz.co.nz

Campaigns

Our spokesperson, National Council (governance body) members and other volunteers write submissions on campaign issues. Some of those are available here: Submissions & Campaign Information

Magazine articles

Some magazine articles are made available on this website. You can find them by looking through the content lists of the current and past issues. Or you can read the list of articles here: Organic NZ Magazine Articles

The Natural Health Products Bill is here have your say!

A guide to organic education in New Zealand

Organics Organisation Gets An MP For Its Seventieth

Organic Winegrowing Reducing Marlborough’s Dangerous Chemical Use.

Government Must Separate GE Foods In New Zealand Shop Shelves

Green MP Sue Kedgley Applauded By Safe Food and Organic Community

Letter from the Minister for Food Safety re the Food Bill

Australian Imported Vegetables Should Be Banned, Not Nuked

Fonterra’s Gutting Of Organic Dairying Is The Next Step To GE Farms.

GE grass reports foreshadow potential economic losses

AgResearch transgender goats to be milked

Unborn NZ children exposed to genetically engineered toxin

AgResearch misinformation corrected by independent scientists

Should AgResearch be charged with fraud?

ERMA swallowed genetic bull from AgResearch

What's in that vaccine?

Celebration as killer pesticide Endosulfan ban goes global

Can Ngai Tahu Change Agria- New Hope- PGG Wrightsons Genetic Engineering Direction?

Scion smoke signals warn of imminent GE tree planting

Government must separate GE foods in NZ stores

Dirty tricks campaign to get genetic engineering into the New Zealand landscape - 3 Apr 11
Soil & Health joins Federated Farmers opposing biosecurity plans - 29 Mar 11
Methyl bromide gas seeps through Picton’s Ferry Terminal - 28 Mar 11
Visiting Professor on GE sales mission misrepresents reality - 23 Mar 11
AgResearch must stop its GE projects - 22 Feb 11
Submission to EBOP February 2011 - 8 Feb 11
PGP methyl bromide research fails to consider port communities health - 2 Feb 11
Picton’s residents face gas for Nelson's logs again - 27 Jan 11
MAF allow Kate Valley Landfill to become New Zealand’s next GE contaminated site - 27 Jan 11
Plant & Food Research shifted GE soil illegally? - 24 Jan 11
Details of Plant & Food Research’s GE constructs demanded - 21 Jan 11
100% Pure USA drive towards New Zealand as a GE nation - 11 Jan 11
This little farm went to market - 1 Jan 11
GE varroa control no Santa Claus for New Zealand beekeepers - 23 Dec 10
Government approval for Scion’s GE Christmas trees - 15 Dec 10
Country of Origin Labeling needs to follow ban on sow crates - 1 Dec 10
ERMA decision making challenged in the High Court again - 23 Nov 10
Government support for GE trees contradicts clean green image - 9 Nov 10
Methyl bromide decision equals toxic business as usual - 2 Nov 10
Wifi in schools – at what cost? - 1 Nov 10
NZ food samples still stacked with pesticide residues - 27 Oct 10
Call for independent biosecurity conducts authority - 21 Oct 10
Jeanette Fitzsimons speaking for a GE Free Organic New Zealand - 21 Sep 10
Primary Growth Partnership Funding - Great Organic Opportunity - 18 Aug 10
GE Food Ingredients Need Immediate Investigation - 16 Aug 10
New Zealand animal cloning needs to stop - 9 Aug 10
Organic Dairy Farmers Don’t Abort Calves - 2 Aug 10
Plant & Food, Lincoln University, MAF and MoRST Risk Brand New Zealand - 1 Aug 10
Pesticide Residues in Food - Worst Ever - 28 Jul 10
Something smells at Scion GE tree site - 12 Jul 10
GE: don't swallow it - 1 Jul 10
GE Plants And Animals Do Not Belong In Clean Green 100% Pure NZ. - 16 Jun 10
New Zealand Exporters Cheating India - 10 Jun 10
Caged Poultry Farmer’s Imprisonment Justifies Animal Liberators Efforts - 26 May 10
Levin Branch Newsletter April 2010 - 19 May 10
USA GE trees approval will reflect negatively on NZ - 13 May 10
Increased Science Funding, An Opportunity For Clean And Green NZ - 12 May 10
Soil & Health Congratulates ERMA - 3 May 10
AgResearch's Cruel Experiments Cover A Wide Range of Animals - 3 May 10
Picton Methyl Bromide Gas Release Risky Again - 3 May 10
Safe food storage - 1 May 10
The Dirty Dozen - 1 May 10
Muesli – not as healthy as it seems, unless it's organic - 25 Apr 10
Protest Against Methyl Bromide Gas Release - 22 Apr 10
ERMA GE Decision Smells of US and Political Influence - 16 Apr 10
Levin Branch Newsletter March 2010 - 4 Apr 10
Bethells Herbicides and Taranakis 1080 A National Issue - 8 Mar 10
Conflict of Interest By GE Animals Hearing Chair - 2 Mar 10
New Pro-1080 Alliance Lacks Sustainability Vision - 11 Feb 10
Animal Cruelty Legislation Needs To Consider 1080 Effects - 2 Feb 10
Bethells Spraying Risks Environment and Community Effects - 2 Feb 10
Levin Branch Newsletter February 2010 - 1 Feb 10
NGO's call for Diet drink's aspartame to be dumped in favour of natural sweeteners - 10 Jan 10
Levin Branch Newsletter January 2010 - 1 Jan 10
What We Want For Christmas - Strawberry Growers To Go Organic - 22 Dec 09
Global Research Alliance In New Zealand At Risk Of Unsustainable Outcomes - 22 Dec 09
Organic Sector Firmly Opposed To Genetically Engineered Animals - 20 Dec 09
Celery at top of dirty dozen - 13 Dec 09
Clean Up Lincoln Countryside and Clean Out NZs GE Labs - 2 Dec 09
GE Food and Environment Regulators Need Changing - 12 Nov 09
ERMAs Chemical Cowboy Approach To Methyl Bromide Branded Reckless - 6 Nov 09
Levin Branch Newsletter November/December 2009 - 1 Nov 09
Food Safety Minister Needs To Question GE Food Safety and Labelling. - 26 Oct 09
Port Marlboroughs Independent Fumigation Monitoring A Sham - 5 Oct 09
Levin Branch Newsletter October 2009 - 1 Oct 09
Marlborough Needs To Clean Up Its Air - 17 Sep 09
Levin Branch Newsletter September 2009 - 1 Sep 09
US Commentator Calls New Zealand GE Trees Irresponsible - 24 Aug 09
Pesticide residues in food shows need for organics - 19 Aug 09
Proposed Amendment to the New Zealand Folic Acid Standard - 11 Aug 09
Federated Farmers Bees Man Ambushing Beekeepers GE Protection - 21 Jul 09
Life Sciences Confused About GE Risk - 16 Jul 09
Power-down pioneer - 1 Jul 09
Eucalypts: Sustainable timber - 1 Jul 09
MAF dodging Plant & Food's $10million GE liability - 28 Jun 09
A Quarter Million NZ Raised GE Eucalyptus Trees Intended for Planting in US - 28 Jun 09
NZ Pesticide Use / Cancer Link Shows Need For Support - 22 Jun 09
NZ Should Note Tasmanias Clean Green GE Free Approach - 22 May 09
Picton Fumigators Will Fail Safety & Indian Requirements - 21 May 09
NZ Free Range Pigs Farmers Deserve CoOL Support - 21 May 09