cheese
New Zealand calls itself GE-free. But the enzyme that sets the cheese in nearly every fridge is made by genetically modified microbes, and has been for 25 years, with nothing on the label to say so. It arrived before the GM crops we actually argued about. Here's how, and why.
dairy
I bought a block of Mainland Organic Cheese this week. Then I turned it over and actually read the back. Non-animal rennet, in a certified organic cheese. Is that legit? The answer turned out to be more interesting than I expected.
chicken
New Zealanders eat 40 kilos of chicken a year. Every supermarket bird has spent its life on Argentine GM soy sprayed with glyphosate, which the WHO calls a probable carcinogen. Bayer has paid US$11bn settling cancer cases while insisting the chemical is safe. Here's what's actually in your chicken.
chicken
I went down the egg rabbit hole and came out somewhere worse. Almost all of New Zealand's chicken feed soy comes from one country — Argentina — and it's genetically modified to survive glyphosate spraying. The chicken eats it. The egg carries it. And nothing on the label says a word.
