Genetically modified foods

Date: 1999

From: Fletcher, David :Eighteen original cartoons published in the New Truth & TV Extra, April - August 1999.

Reference: A-341-010

Description: A colleague tells Jenny Shipley that he wants his mum to clearly label any food in his lunchbox that has been genetically modified because "That way I can be sure there's none of that 'orrible organic food in here." Wider context may refer to the Labour Party's promise in 1999 that they would legally require labelling of Genetically Modified food. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - D.Fletcher [in felt tip] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen on card, 120 x 390 mm

Date: 19 January 2005

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-292

Description: Shows a New Zealand Post 45 cent postage stamp with a ewe with two lambs. One of the lambs asks their mother if their feed is GM free. Their mother replies with 'Cluck' and appears to have a bird's beak. Refers to Genetically modified feeds for animals. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - Leader Page Cartoon 186mm x 133mm (s/s) 19 CARTOON Pls scan and send to Production Pix (Pix on Hand) [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 2006

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-033

Description: Comprises hard copies of Green Party website document and slideshow presentation about Green Party supermarket survey looking at GE and country of origin (CoOL) labelling of food items. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed material Typescript

Date: 1998-2007

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-035

Description: Comprises documents released under Official Information Act requests concerning CoOL (country of origin labelling). Includes New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) proposals, cabinet paper and briefings, TBT (Technical Barriers To Trade) Committee brief, MFAT (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade) briefing, Cabinet Business Committee minute of decision, MFAT cables and faxes and letters. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed material Typescript

Date: 1998 - 1999

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Eighteen original cartoons, published in the New Truth and TV Extra, December 1998 - April 1999.

Reference: A-323-069

Description: A three-panel strip showing Tuariki Delamere, the New Zealand First MP, telling a colleague how much he enjoys his genetically modified food because it glows in the dark. Context: Delamere, as the Associate Minister of Health, said in 1999 that he was satisfied with the Food Standards Authority's ruling that genetically modified products were safe Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - D. Fletcher Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen and watercolour on card, 120 x 390 mm Provenance: Donation: New Truth and TV Extra, Auckland, 1999

Date: 2003-2007

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-067

Description: Comprises material concerning annotated surveys undertaken on children and food sugar, processed foods, GE products in supermarkets, breakfast cereals, food ingredients labelling, country of origin (CoOL) labelling. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed material Typescript

Date: 2001

By: Coalition for a GE-Free Environment Aotearoa New Zealand; Viskovic', Claire, 1966-

Reference: Eph-A-SCIENCE-2001

Description: The back of each card contains the text of a message the reader is asked to send to the Prime Minister, calling for the banning of GE field trials and commercial releases, keeping GE food out of the country, and restricting GE to contained laboratories. Includes: Our children are not guinea pigs; keep GE out of our food. (Shows a group of children having school lunches) This is not a testing ground. Keep our environment GE free. (Shows native bush) Genetically engineered organisms are unpredictable and their release irreversible. Keep GE in the lab (Shows a laboratory door with the sign "Caution; biological hazard") Agriculture - the backbone of this country. Don't muck it up. Keep NZ fields GE free (Shows an open field) Safe food, sure markets, treasured land. GE free NZ, ours for the picking (Shows a hand picking apples) Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcards. Physical Description: Photolithographs on postcards, 101 x 150 mm. Provenance: Donated by Claire Viskovic in 2001.

Date: 2002

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to genetics, genetic modification]

By: GE Free Aotearoa New Zealand

Reference: Eph-B-GENETICS-2002-01

Description: Includes: Corrugated plastic fence sign: Proud to be GE Free. Stickers and bookmarks: Get real - go GE free; Make Aotearoa GE Free; Vote GE-Free for a sustainable future; GE Free zone; My fridge is a GE free zone; GE free zone for a genetic engineering free environment Aotearoa New Zealand; GE free - clean & green; What's next from Monsanto?; Get real - label GE; No genetic engineering in food & environment; Boycott GE foods - prevent corporate control; GE free lunch box; G-E free organic by 2020. Logo featuring monarch butterfly features on most items. Quantity: 16 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on stickers and poster. Physical Description: Photolithographs on stickers, poster, and bookmarks, sizes varying. Provenance: Purchased from GE Free Aotearoa NZ in 2002.

Date: 2002

By: Greenpeace New Zealand

Reference: Eph-B-FOOD-2002-01

Description: Gives a definition of GE free. Lists foods by type, and shows which are genetically free, partially genetically free, and NOT genetically free. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Laser prints on 15 pages, each 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 2000 - 2020

By: Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (Organisation)

Reference: Eph-D-GENETICS

Description: Includes: Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MADGE). GE; we just don't buy it! www.madge.net.nz [2003] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on stickers, poster, and bookmarks, sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Sticky Fingers (poster stick-up company) in 2003.

Date: 2000-2006

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-069

Description: Comprises letters and emails concerning safe food campign issues Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed material Typescript

Date: 2010

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-006

Description: Comprises notes for question time in Parliament, press releases, growers survey feedback and raw data concerning Green Party survey of consumers understanding of the terms "Made in New Zealand" and "Product of New Zealand". Also includes hard copy of Commerce commission webpage on country of origin representation and Via Campesina webpage on food sovereignty. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed material Typescript

Date: 2002 - 2003

From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers

By: GE Free Aotearoa New Zealand

Reference: Eph-C-GENETICS-2003-01

Description: Calendar shows black and white photographs of natural object such as an unfurling fern leaf, sky, waterfall, seagulls, tree ferns. Each page has a paragraph of text, the main concern being the lifting of the moratorium on the commercial release of GE in October 2003, and the subsequent release of GE pollen to affect other crops and produce. Text explains how GE works, discusses antibiotic marker genes and viruses, allergies and proteins, the instability of the technology, insurance companies' wariness, overseas reputation, sustainability, patents allowing ownership of food, globalisation, ethics, and the Treaty of Waitangi. Other sponsors are: Verona Organics, Naked Organics, Living Nature, Eco Store, Lisa's Middle Eastern Foods, Phoenix Organic, Lawson's True Earth Certified Organics, Purebread Organic, Turkish Bread, Organic Republican Bakery. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on spiral-bound calendar with 8 leaves, 420 x 297 mm Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..

Date: 2003-2008

From: Kedgley, Susan Jane, 1948- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11241-034

Description: Comprises bar graphs of Chinese food imports 2003 to 2007, and CoOL (country of origin labelling) campaign pamphlet. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed material Typescript

Date: 2003

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0000897

Description: The head and shoulders of Marian Hobbs, Environment Minister and Associate Biosecurity Minister, is seen atop a pizza. The reference is to contaminated Gisborne seed that was discovered after a pizza manufacturer in Japan received positive GE test results on a topping containing the processed kernels. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009412

Description: Shows the Prime Minister Helen Clark driving an all purpose vehicle over cornfields and an anti-GE demonstration, and over the foreshore and a hikoi. Refers to the demonstrations against genetically modified foods and the foreshore and seabed legislation. See DCDL-0009411 for black and white version. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-001-483

Description: Caricatures of Helen Clark and Marian Hobbs harvesting a crop of genetically engineered corn. Refers to the corn-gate affair. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 1998

From: Crimp, Dary, 1958- :Eighty original cartoons dated from 1995 to 1999.

Reference: A-338-159

Description: The cartoon shows three potato plants. The one in the middle is much bigger and stronger looking than the other two. One of the other potato plants is looking lovingly at the giant plant, while the other states the reason for such growth. Refers to experimental genetic modification of potato plants. Extended Title - "Potato gene-bending tests approved!" Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, A4 size

Date: 11 October 2003

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000078

Description: Photographs of a protest against the lifting of a moratorium on genetic engineering at Parliament Grounds, Wellington, taken 11 October 2003 by Dylan Owen. Accompanying material - Yahoo News article at PAColl-8766-1 Arrangement: Files were originally in a folder labelled 'Protest-GE' Quantity: 69 digital photograph(s). Processing information: Resolution information changed August 2017 after information from Library staff.

Date: 2002

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DX-001-520

Description: Caricature of Prime Minister Helen Clark with American Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Quantity: 1 digital image(s).