Safe Food

On the eve of the “March Against Monsanto,” the United States Senate shut down the GMO labelling bill that a large majority of states within the U.S. are calling for. The bill would have allowed individual states to decide if genetically modified food products should be labelled without any mandating action. This bill wasn’t controversial as it simply gave individual states the option to allow their citizens to know whether or not they are eating genetically modified foods or not. Unfortunately the vote was abolished in an overwhelming fashion, the Senate voted 71 to 27 against it on Thursday, right before today’s global protests.

Health Freedom are active in a number of areas on the issue of Safe Food. We were vocal when the National Government was considering the introduction of Folic Acid into our daily bread, you can read our press releases here and see our page detailing our objections here.

Most concerning is the ongoing introduction of GE and GM into our food supply. HFNZ are working with a number of national organisations to address this serious issue and we will be posting more information about this on our website soon.

Health Freedom NZ are opposed to adding folic acid to bread for many reasons we list below. If we accept that mass medication of the population for one deficiency is an acceptable practice, then we open the flood gate for chemical manufacturers to lobby government and add all manner of chemicals to our food for all manner of diseases. The proposed scheme sets a dangerous precedent. The solution to New Zealands nutrient-deficient expectant mothers is not the addition of synthetic Folic Acid to bread, which is replacing the natural substance Folate that is stripped by food producers and processors. For a more in depth discussion of this serious issue please read on.