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By Olivia Pierson
My submission. We have until Feb 17 2025. --- Our NZ Bill of Rights states: “Every person has the right not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation without that person’s consent.” Gene modification in medicine, plants, animals and foods may have very far reaching consequences beyond the current knowledge of those bringing it to market, and those who seek to deregulate the current restrictions upon it. Gene technology carries immense risks that cannot be contained nor remedied. Deregulating this field is reckless and dangerous, especially before the COVID-19 Royal Commission has been completed. (mRNA vaccines have caused untold damage in the human populations around the world - it was always a gene based therapy masquerading as a vaccine which our government bought into wholesale, brooking no opposition.) Government dismissal of public concerns including labelling, reflects arrogance and disregard for safety, freedom, and informed medical and food choices. This equates to experimentation with something as fundamental as even our food. NZ has a reputation for wholesome, natural and clean food for export and for consumption by its own citizens. Please don't meddle with that irreplaceable value. When Minister Judith Collins makes statements such as the following: "A defining moment was the invention of the ability to precisely edit individual genes. The CRISPR process was announced in 2012, and it won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020. That changed everything, because it means that we’re not splicing together genes from different species but that we’re editing existing genes. And more medical therapies aren’t just nice to have; it means more effective and safe cancer treatments, and it means greater hope and quality of life for patients and their families"... and when Collins also calls gene editing "very predictable technology,”... … that flies in the face of good science, which measures outcomes over many decades while digesting, with prudence, the thoughts and warnings of many scientific voices which say otherwise. Beyond the public relations hyperbole of politicians such as Minister Collins et al, the gene editing technology CRISPR has prompted both breathless predictions of medical breakthroughs and warnings of apocalypse. Yale Insights asked Dr. Greg Licholai, a biotech entrepreneur and a lecturer at Yale School of Management, to explain CRISPR’s potential and dangers. Dr Licholai said: “… the biggest fear of CRISPR. Humans manipulating the genetic code, and those manipulations get passed on generation to generation to generation. We think we know what we’re doing, we think we’re measuring exactly what changes we’re doing to the genes, but there’s always the possibility that either we miss something or our technology can’t pick up on other changes that have been made that haven’t been directed by us. And the fear then is that those changes lead to antibiotic resistance or other mutations that go out into the population and would be very difficult to control. Basically creating incurable diseases or other potential mutations that we wouldn’t really have control over.” After Wuhan, what could possibly go wrong? Please don’t act as if this is a big nothing burger with no downside for the sake of our economic recovery after Covid-hysteria damaged our nation. We have not yet come to terms with that massive debacle, with its fake, ineffective and rash “novel" mass “mRNA vaccination” campaign, yet here you are all now seeking to unleash another potential scientific perversion upon us: - in farming practices - in food security (without proper labelling of all products containing GMO) - and in medicine with CRISPR tech. I say a firm “No.” --- To readers: I made some recommendations which I forgot to save but sent, among them a recommendation to not replace the South Island’s (or any) beautiful & iconic high-country farms to a genetically modified version of Pinus Radiata, which “they” reckon won’t spread. Those farms are priceless and they’re shamelessly selling our beloved old NZ for crude, progressive “economic growth.” I also said something about the Age of Trump they are still clinging to the hoax of climate alarmism and commitments to the Paris Accords - a dead horse if ever I saw one.
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Steve Taylor
6/2/2025 11:31:46 am
Thank you Olivia. Yes, everyone should be aware of the scenarios we face in this irresponsible, reckless Bill and we should all make a submission about it. Yet here am I, who has spent > 50 years in medicine & the life sciences, feeling adrift in the incredibly complex, murky waters which this issue raises. The best thing for us all, I believe, is to make a submission - albeit not at all scientific - but one that reflects what your heart (or your gut) tells you. To analogise this issue to a 'powderkeg' is the understatement of the century.
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