Posted 8th September 2001

Register Your Land GE-Free
by Alan Marston

Using bureacracy against itself is a most effective mechanism preventing a country from becoming catatonic, and it is exactly this thought that made me register my, admittedly pretty small block of carbon-sinking native forest near Puhoi, as GE-Free land.

I highly recommend you too go to www.gefreeregister.co.nz and register your land, if you own it. The bureaucrats have promulgated that GE Free land entitles itself to a buffer zone around it which could be up to 8 km, within which GE affected crops and animals can't be grown (assuming they ever get into the field, which is highly unlikely). If enough land is registered, the buffer zones will overlap and by default, NZ would be GE FreeNZ.

Don't wait, register... ..