Last weekend, I attended an expert roundtable on food security hosted by the Commission for the Human Future. Everyone was in broad agreement that our current agricultural system is in crisis. Decades of intensive agriculture are eroding our soils, drawing down our...
Labor went into the last election with a promise to keep South Australia’s genetically modified crop moratorium. Many South Australians voted for them on this basis. And now they’ve turned their back on the majority of farmers who want to grow GM-free food and all of...
South Australia’s genetically modified (GM) crop moratorium is an important part of the state’s clean, green reputation and provides certainty for GM free shoppers and our key export markets. Despite this, the moratorium has been under relentless attack....
Scientists have been quick to underplay the risks associated with bacterial DNA being accidentally incorporated into the genomes of ‘gene edited’ bulls that were used to breed Australian cows. However, the bacterial genes found in the bulls conferred resistance to...
A Victoria based company – Total Livestock Genetics – has bred dairy cows from ‘gene edited’ bulls whose genomes have since been found to unintentionally contain bacterial DNA. Furthermore, our food regulator Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)...