Organic NZ Magazine: Sept/Oct 2012 Section: Health and food Author: Kyra Xavia As consumer awareness grows about excitotoxins, the food industry is making it harder for consumers to avoid them. Kyra Xavia investigates. An excitotoxin is a substance that excites nerve cells until they die. One of the most commonly used but best-hidden excitotoxins is…
Organic NZ Magazine: March/April 2012 Section: Features Author: Christine Dann Food Bill folly In which Organic NZ questions the Food Quality Authority (also known as Christine Dann) about whether the Food Bill 2010, if enacted in its current form, would really protect New Zealanders from dying in their thousands from food-related diseases every year, and…
Organic NZ Magazine: November/December 2011 Section: Health and Food Author: Sandra Clair The Natural Health Products Bill is back in Parliament and this time it is a different story altogether. In 2007 New Zealanders flexed their muscles and influenced their political representatives not to pass legislation for a joint Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Regulatory Authority…
Organic NZ Magazine: September/October 2011 Section: Letters to the Editor Author: Kate Wilkinson, Minister for Food Safety I am writing in response to Guy Ralls article in the July/August 2011 edition of Organic NZ, in which it was suggested that the Food Bill is a threat to seed saving / and the sharing of seeds…
Organic NZ Magazine: May/June 2011 Section: Health and Food Author: Sue Claridge In the last issue of Organic NZ [March/April 2011], a reader wrote that she was ‘shocked to find out that the generic immunisation injection drug INFANRIX is based on a culture of genetically engineered yeast cells’. The horror with which some may regard…
Organic NZ Magazine: July/August 2010 Section: Features Author: Kyra Xavia Kyra Xavia investigates how genetically engineered ingredients sneak into our food unlabelled, and offers tips to avoid eating them Like many Organic NZ readers you may be a conscious consumer who makes informed decisions about the food you eat. Unfortunately you may also be ‘eating…
Organic NZ Magazine: May/June 2010 Section: Health and Food Author: Alison White Alison White of the Safe Food Campaign answers these questions – Which foods in New Zealand have the most pesticide residues? – What’s wrong with pesticide residues in food? – How can pesticide residues in food be reduced? The content below is available…
Organic NZ Magazine: May/June 2010 Section: Farming and Horticulture Author: Annie Stuart Annie Stuart visits Brydone Growers Organic Farmshop south of Oamaru, and discovers a thriving and expanding market garden built on decades of organic history One of my favourite stalls at the Otago Farmers’ Market is that of Brydone Organic Growers. Their range of…
Organic NZ Magazine: March/April 2008 Section: Health and Food Author: Alison White ‘Aspartame is the most controversial and complained-about additive in history.’ Alison White of the Safe Food Campaign. The Safe Food Campaign believes that the widespread exposure to the artificial sweetener aspartame (951) – an addictive, carcinogenic neurotoxin – is causing a public health…
Organic NZ Magazine: September/October 2007 Section: Gardening Author: Pam Blowers The Jerusalem artichoke is a brown-coloured, knobbly, white-fleshed tuber root vegetable from the daisy (Compositae) family. It is not related to Globe Artichoke. In the USA it is known more commonly as Sunchoke, and in Italy as Girasola artiocco, the sunflower artichoke (girasola means to…
Organic NZ Magazine: May/June 2007 Section: Health and Food Author: Philippa Jamieson Philippa Jamieson checks out a herbal medicine business that is under threat from the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill. The premises of ARTEMIS Herbal Medicine are just as warm and sunny as the beautiful Dunedin day outside. Sandra Clair shows me into her…
Organic NZ Magazine: March/April 2003 Author: Dr Bob Anderson Is anything more aggravating than buying what you understand to be organic food only to discover that it is not organic and that industry has, once again, “meddled” with it? My wife returned from a supermarket recently having purchased a bottle of “Simply Organic” milk. On…
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