Say on to GMO

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First published in Good magazine

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) one in seven of the world’s population is currently starving. Meanwhile, the United Nation’s Population Division predicts that the world’s population is set to increase from seven billion to more than 10 billion by 2100, and go on rising.  The latest public relations drive from the genetically modified food industry claims the only way we can feed these people is to give the corporations free reign to experiment with our natural resources and sell genetically modified food. But there’s a single fact that proves them wrong.

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Powerswitch: my speech to the conference

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In 2003, I went on a mission delivering second hand bicycles to post Civil War Angola. I was held sort of captive for a few days in the middle of a minefield, sweeping the spent ammunition from my campsite and trying not to get eaten by the crocodiles.

Thankfully the environmental organisation WWF considered this as work experience, and I subsequently worked with them in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, the UK, Switzerland, India, Vietnam, across the Pacific and anywhere else I could blag my way to.

These days I split my working hours between writing for element magazine with the New Zealand Herald, Good magazine and Idealog magazine and a few others, and helping to raise money for charities like WWF and Oxfam. I also write for government agencies like New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.

I should stress that I am a freelancer appearing here as an individual, and so whatever comes out of my mouth in the next hour is entirely down to me.

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