{"id":66462,"date":"2025-10-08T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66462\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:30:14","slug":"nz-reliance-on-ag-and-tourism-demands-added-caution-around-gene-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66462\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ reliance on ag and tourism demands added caution around gene technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: The rewrite of our gene technology law takes on a whole new meaning when looking at what else is planned alongside this.<\/p>\n<p>The level of risk implied is staggering, and for gains that are no more than speculative.<br \/>Forget mere trade losses \u2013 millions of dollars lost from exports being accidentally contaminated with genetically modified organisms. We are talking about risks from genetech at a level that threaten the entire agricultural economy. For example, inadvertent changes that undermine an aspect of the basic biology that sustains farming.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tSubscribe to continue reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center newspack-sign-in\" style=\"font-size:13px\">Already have an account? <a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign In<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlimited access Newsroom Pro articles<\/p>\n<p>Bonus subscription for a friend or family member<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive subscriber-only emails <\/p>\n<p>Access to post and read comments on articles<\/p>\n<p>A daily morning email of news and insights curated by Newsroom Pro editorial team<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.co.nz\/newsroom-pro-subscription\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corporate subscriptions also available<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opinion: The rewrite of our gene technology law takes on a whole new meaning when looking at what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[11220,405,266,1184,111,43,7439,139,69,2114,8780,53667,147,145],"class_list":["post-66462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-comment","tag-genetics","tag-government","tag-health-science","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newsroom-pro","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-opinion","tag-premium","tag-primary-industries","tag-science","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}