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Gene edited synthetic products are overwhelming daily life

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Gene edited synthetic products are overwhelming daily life

Forty years ago the first varieties of genetically modified crops were planted in open fields in the US. Ever since there has been a sustained popular movement to call for these to be banned or at the very least contained and labelled in shops. Today, battles continue to be fought with legislators and regulators across the world in the face of a new strategy that has been developed by the agrichemical/biotechnology industry. This falsely suggests that GM crops produced via CRISPR gene editing are indistinguishable from their natural counterparts and therefore can be fast tracked and exempt from labelling in supermarkets. The HSNO (Hazardous Substances and New Organisms) and ACVM (Agricultural Chemicals and Veterinary Medicines) Amendment Bills are  currently before the NZ parliament to this effect. As you probably know, many groups have been lobbying and fighting to prevent its passage, but the economic power of the biotech lobby and their employment of manipulative PR methods is threatening to overwhelm any caution. 

The GM crops battle still appears to be the frontline fight, but over the forty years since their first use, the narrowly focused effort to contain them has been quietly bypassed through a proliferation of biosynthetic products produced using gene technologies which have largely escaped public notice. These ubiquitous products are now dominating the preparation of food, cosmetics, medicine, pest control, bio textiles, home products and the environment. They have largely been exempt from meaningful regulation and safety testing. As a result, almost without our knowledge, we are being assailed on all sides by genetically active micro compounds which have the potential to affect our health. Therefore our efforts to oppose deregulation of biotechnology need to be significantly broadened, otherwise we are in danger of being overwhelmed by risky gene technology in every field of life.

Recently we issued a report “A dirty secret exposed: Cosmetics and women’s cancer risk”. In this we detailed the proliferation of genetically synthesised ingredients in cosmetics. We drew attention to a great number of cosmetic ingredients produced using gene based batch fermentation. We mentioned one in particular that is widely used and currently being vigorously advertised as a miraculous anti-ageing skin treatment—hyaluronic acid. The potential dangers of this compound were amply illustrated last week when a wealthy influencer died after undergoing a penis enlargement procedure in Thailand involving an injection of hyaluronic acid. The lurid details are contained in an article in the UK Daily Mail. The coroner’s report reveals the medical details of his death. He suffered a pulmonary embolism (a clot in a blood vessel in his lungs) within hours of the injection. An autopsy revealed that hyaluronic acid had migrated to his lungs and contributed to the clot. 

Professor Vaibhav Modgil, an NHS consultant urological surgeon from Manchester, warned that injections of Hyaluronic acid are dangerous. He reported cases of men coming to hospital with their skin sloughing off. Other cases of embolism have also occurred, illustrating how biosynthesised compounds widely used in the cosmetic enhancement industry can be highly mobile in physiological systems, migrating to organs where they can seed serious health issues which may appear immediately or slowly over time. Cosmetic synthetics need not actually be injected to cause problems. Our skin is porous, ensuring that topically applied cosmetic ingredients can cause problems in organs distant from their application points. 

How on earth did synthetically produced hyaluronic acid come to be regarded as a miracle cure for ageing?

The new generation of GM biosynthetics are escaping regulation and testing even if there are recorded examples of severe health outcomes. No one is looking carefully at the risks, merely assuming safety and advertising supposed benefits without adequate testing.

Hyaluronic acid is just one example of thousands of genetically active synthetic compounds being introduced in almost every area of life that we are increasingly exposed to and encouraged to use. These are replacing traditional natural ingredients and materials known to be safe. In some cases these are being quietly substituted and in others saturation advertising almost creates an illusion of need, as if life will come to an end if we don’t participate.

Gene bending synthetic residues in food

You may wonder why the taste of some fruit we buy in the supermarket doesn’t seem to be as satisfying as it used to be. In 2021, there was a major shift in fruit treatment aimed at improving storage and prolonging shelf life. 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) is a synthetic chemical which inhibits ripening in storage. In 2021 it was approved for pre-harvest spraying. In New Zealand it is now sprayed in orchards to manage harvest timing and preserve fruit appearance under the brand name Harvesta. 

1-MCP alters gene expression in fruit in numerous ways. It binds permanently to ethylene receptors, down-regulating or suppressing the expression of numerous ripening genes. It also up-regulates patterns of gene  expression that can affect flavour and scent. It can work differently in different fruit species. 1-MCP is regarded as largely harmless for humans because we have no ethylene receptors and because 1-MCP is regulated to be used in small quantities, although residue levels are not actually tested. However it is known to cause skin and eye irritation, therefore it does have specific toxic effects on humans whose long term consequences are unknown. The use of pre-harvest 1-MCP sprays has increased the incidence of blue mould and rapid decay in domestic fridges, because it suppresses the disease defence mechanisms of fruit. In other words, it suppresses the immune system mechanisms of fruit.

1-MCP is just another of thousands of synthetic chemicals being routinely added to the food chain and pumped into the environment which affect genetic expression. As the incidence of cancers and autoimmune illness illnesses continues to increase, we have to ask some hard questions about what is causing this epidemic. If you want to avoid exposure to 1-MCP, eat organic fruit or go to your local farmers market to source spray free products. Organic standards ban its use. Instead, commercially produced organic apples for example are stored in controlled temperature, moisture and low oxygen environments to ensure they can be shipped and sold over a longer season without the use of synthetic chemicals. Which just goes to show that there is no compelling reason to use 1-MCP, there are natural alternatives available for all fruit and vegetables. Organic apples may not always look superficially perfect, but they taste great.

Our physiology functions as a coordinated holistic system. Every part is essential to the whole and the whole is essential to every part. To illustrate the dangers of editing genes or altering gene expression. Imagine a jigsaw where just one piece from another jigsaw gets swapped into the box. The novel piece has the wrong colour, size and shape. The holistic value of the original picture can no longer be reproduced. If the novel piece is forced into a location it upsets the continuity of the picture which immediately sticks out to the eye. In the same way, novel genetic sequences contain information and initiate functions that don’t fit with the holistic uniform function of the individual recipient’s genome. They can be forced into a location in DNA through biotech interventions like CRISPR, but due to the complexity of DNA, it is known that this will cause unpredictable and undesirable mutagenic effects.

You can find out more on this topic at our Substack channel where we concentrate on legacy articles and fundamental principles. Last week for example we published a Substack article entitled “Biotechnology is dismantling the fundamental unity of life” which explores the closing theme of today’s article in more detail and depth. This article reports that more than 6,000 trials of gene altering medicines and vaccines are currently underway around the globe. It examines newly published evidence that gene modification can alter our personality and the way we think and perceive. We encourage you to visit and use the embedded link to subscribe to our Substack channel. There is no charge and it complements the up to date news we publish at the Hatchard Report with background principles of life which inform our writing and research.

We want to thank you for your continuing support. As biotechnology encroaches on more and more aspects of our daily life, it is important to keep up to date so that we can make the right choices that will protect our health and well being.

A dirty secret exposed: Cosmetics and women’s cancer risk

Guy Hatchard
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A dirty secret exposed: Cosmetics and women’s cancer risk

A study published in Nature Medicine entitled “Biological aging and generational shifts in early-onset cancer risk” examined the health profiles of 154,169 young adults in the UK and found that those born between 1965-1974 were aging significantly faster compared to those born between 1950-1954. It also found that the younger group had a significantly increased risk of early onset cancer. The study cited a number of other recent studies that are reaching similar conclusions. The trend has been accelerating with rates of early onset bowel cancer for example increasing by 6% per decade immediately before 2017, more than double the increase seen in the last decade of the twentieth century. 

In other words, younger people are experiencing more rapid biological aging reflected in dysregulation of immune responses, chronic inflammation, cumulative genetic damage and alterations in the microbiological environment of physiological cells, tissue and organs. The paper was unable to explain why this was happening, instead citing the probable influence of ‘emerging generational risk factors’. A suitably vague expression that covers just about every novel thing an age cohort engages in and is exposed to compared to previous generations.

The study findings are way out of date. In January of this year the Hatchard Report published an analysis of the latest cancer incidence among working adults in New Zealand. The 2023 figures were 8.8% above the 2015-2019 average. The NZ figures since 2020 show that the comparable rate of increase per decade will not be 6%, but likely significantly more than 3 times this figure if the trend continues as might be expected. The increase in 2022 was 50% greater than the increase in 2021, but the increase in 2023 was 80% greater than that in 2022. In other words the trend towards early onset cancer among younger age people is rapidly accelerating as illustrated by the latest NZ data available. 

To tackle a problem you need to know its cause.

The NZ Herald reported the Nature Medicine study findings and labelled the results ‘groundbreaking’. It may not have escaped your notice that finding an effect without identifying a cause simply establishes that there are new virulent health risks, but no one knows quite why. The Herald found an expert who recommended lifestyle changes to decrease cancer risk including a vegetarian diet, regular gentle exercise, less processed food, better sleep, and less alcohol which are useful suggestions and should be encouraged more often. Of these factors, exercise participation and vegetarianism have been increasing in western nations of the type being studied, while alcohol consumption has significantly reduced. Processed food consumption has increased. 

However none of these mechanisms can explain the alarming acceleration since 2020. In other words, there needs to be a careful search for habits, medicine, foods and environmental exposures that are novel and contain mechanisms that could directly affect the known triggers of cancer, and have dramatically accelerated since 2020. As far as the latest figures are concerned there are really only two candidates Covid infection and Covid vaccination, both of which came out of biotechnology labs dedicated to gene editing. But that cannot be the whole story, since the trend is evident pre-Covid although at much lower rates. 

So how much exposure to biotechnology experimentation and gene edited products did younger age adults have prior to 2020? Unfortunately the answer is ‘a great deal’ and therein might lie the seed of an answer to what is leading to accelerated ageing of younger generations and rapidly increased rates of early onset cancers

Cosmetics and cancer risk?

If you watch YouTube videos, you will have noticed that a well known brand is currently vigorously promoting a face cream containing, as the advert proudly announces, ‘Hyaluron’. The tone of the advertising is that of a ‘miraculous anti-ageing cure’ that we should all be snapping up at Chemist Warehouse and applying in copious quantities before bedtime. One might ask: “What on earth is Hyaluron?”

Hyaluronic Acid was discovered in 1934 when Karl Meyer and John Palmer isolated it from the vitreous humour of a cow’s eye. Vitreous humour is the clear, colourless, jelly-like fluid that fills the large space between the lens and the retina, making up about 80% of the volume of the eye. Hyaluronic acid is a high molecular weight complex sugar that is capable of containing high amounts of water. In other words, it can be used as a moisturiser. It was first produced commercially in the 1970s from ground up animal tissue. It was used in eye and joint surgery and in expensive skin care products. In the 1990s this was replaced with a cheaper synthesised product made at an industrial scale with batch fermentation methods using mutagen treated bacteria hosts. This has since enabled the marketing of hyaluronic acid types as pure and free of animal cruelty.

As we have reported before, there is however a very important drawback of batch fermentation processes. The products require purification which can never be completely achieved nor are they completely identical to natural compounds. A 2025 paper entitled “Metagenomics-based tracing of genetically modified microorganism contaminations in commercial fermentation products found that contamination from genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs) employed in microbial fermentation processes is routinely found even in purified end products. These GMMs are specifically employed to facilitate cell division and multiplication; and cell division is at the root of cancer growth.

I am not at all saying hyaluronic acid is a specific risk factor for cancer, but any potential GMM contamination would be a strong candidate. Nor am I singling out batch fermentation production of hyaluronic acid using GMMs. This is not an isolated case. Cosmetic ingredients pass our skin barrier and distribute throughout our physiology. The adoption of batch fermentation production techniques for cosmetic ingredients that were formerly derived from animal products has been almost universal. It enables cosmetic companies to produce these more cheaply and deceptively claim they are pure and natural. There are no standards enforced that regulate such claims. In addition to hyaluronic acid there are hundreds of skin care and decorative` cosmetic ingredients including lipsticks, foundations and others in soaps, shampoos and conditioners now produced using GM batch fermentation, examples include:

  • Squalane: A moisturizing emollient traditionally harvested from shark livers or olives. It is now widely synthesized using genetically modified brewer’s yeast fed via sugar cane fermentation.
  • Recombinant Collagen: Anti-aging structural proteins used for skin elasticity. Human or animal collagen genes are inserted into host yeasts or bacteria to brew vegan, animal-free collagen peptides.
  • Ceramides: Lipid molecules vital for the skin barrier. Specific strains of engineered yeast and fungi are fermented to yield ceramides without animal or petrochemical extraction.
  • Resveratrol & Ferulic Acid: Antioxidants. Manufacturers use engineered yeast strains to biosynthesize polyphenols through metabolic pathways.
  • Kojic Acid: A skin-brightening agent used to reduce hyperpigmentation. It is manufactured via batch fermentation processes utilizing specific fungal strains.
  • Lactic Acid: Used for exfoliation, fading dark spots, rehydration, and balancing pH. It is commonly made using batch fermentation’

Also in deodorants:

  • 1,3-Propanediol / Propylene Glycol: Used as solvents, humectants, and base-forming texturizers. While historically petroleum-derived, a significant portion of modern cosmetic glycols (like bio-based propanediol) are produced via the aerobic batch fermentation of plant sugars (like corn glucose) using genetically engineered Escherichia coli.
  • Triethyl Citrate: Used in deodorants. It works by inhibiting the bacterial enzymes in your armpit that break down sweat into smelly compounds. The citric acid required to synthesize triethyl citrate is universally produced via industrial batch fermentation of sugars by the fungus Aspergillus niger.
  • Saccharomyces Ferment / Ferment Filtrates: Found heavily in “natural” or “clean” deodorants. These are postbiotic liquids created by fermenting nutrients using Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) or Lactobacillus bacteria. The resulting batch-fermented broth contains enzymes that directly break down volatile organic odour molecules like ammonia.
  • Ethanol (Alcohol Denat.): Used as a quick-drying solvent and an immediate antimicrobial agent to kill odour-causing underarm bacteria. Most cosmetic-grade alcohol is produced via the anaerobic batch fermentation of plant starches or sugars by engineered yeast.
  • Sodium Gluconate: Used as a chelating agent to stabilize the formulation and bind trace metals. It is commercially produced through the batch fermentation of glucose by Aspergillus niger or Gluconobacter oxidans.
  • Xanthan Gum: Used as a thickener and stabilizer in roll-on or gel deodorants. It is a polysaccharide harvested exclusively from the aerobic batch fermentation of carbohydrates by the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.

In 2025, the American Cancer Society reported that cancer rates in young and middle aged women are rising past those of men in the same age group. The cancer incidence rates of women under 50 are now an alarming 82% above those of their male counterparts. This threatens to wipe out the gains that early cancer detection and treatment for women have made since the 1900s. Women are the predominant users of cosmetics. A lot of advertising and promotion seeks to portray their use as healthy along with pressure to comply with artificial standards of beauty. With the advent of batch fermentation production using GMMs, this may all be a big lie.

The use of batch fermentation doesn’t stop there. The supplement industry relies on it to synthesize common vitamins like B2, B12, C, K2, D and various amino acids. Pre-, pro- and post-biotics are increasingly synthesized using batch and continuous fermentation and, as you probably know, marketed as essential for gut health. All of these products are highly likely to end up with residual contamination from powerful genetically active molecules (GMMs).

As we have already reported in our article “Major Health Alert: the Extraordinary Genetically Modified Invasion of Our Supermarkets by Stealth synthetic batch fermentation has become ubiquitous in the food industry. Ditto for many pharmaceuticals which are increasingly designed to specifically edit gene expression processes.

Conclusion

Now go back to the Nature Medicine paper we cited at the beginning of this article. In summary, it reported that people are now experiencing dysregulation of immune responses, chronic inflammation, cumulative genetic damage and alterations in the microbiological environment of physiological cells, tissue and organs at younger ages and going on to develop early onset cancers at higher rates than previous generations. GMM contamination of food, cosmetics and supplements presents a plausible ‘mechanism’ which could be causing such adverse effects on health. Genetically active vaccines and a novel disease (Covid) produced using gain of function genetic editing would actually be very good candidates to accelerate this trend after 2020. Something that apparently no one wants to admit. It is no good ignoring the data, something has gone terribly wrong. Younger people are facing a greatly increased risk of cancer and the trend is accelerating. What we accept as foods, medications, and cosmetics has changed within a generation or two, so too has our risk of cancer. That cannot continue to be ignored or remain uninvestigated.

In addition to an improved diet, you may want to avoid some highly engineered cosmetic products. This requires careful research. Natural oils like sesame, olive, apricot, almond, mustard and many essential oils have traditional skin care properties and health effects recommended by many herbal traditions including Ayurveda. Traditional cosmetic processes like those used to make Olive Oil Soap are making a comeback for example. There is a great deal of information about product ingredients and manufacturing processes that can be researched using the internet. However non compliance and a change in our retail purchases habits is actually a very mild response to what is a very serious problem. During the last seven years, the medical profession, the media and the government have begun to accept damaging abnormal trends as normal. High rates of medical adverse effects have been normalised. Lack of informed consent and the imposition of medical mandates too. Now there is apparently a sort of meek acceptance that the young are ageing faster than ever before. This cannot be allowed to pass unnoticed, uncommented and unresisted.

We are crossing the final frontier

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We are crossing the final frontier

A paper published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry on July 31 2026 is entitled “Autism spectrum disorder trends for children and adults in New Zealand: A longitudinal examination of three national databases“. It found that the rate of autism diagnoses in NZ has multiplied by a factor of 3.4 (340%) between 2009 and 2023. This amounts to a staggeringly steep rise in cases. Grant Dixon, a NZ data commentator who was very active during the pandemic, with whom the Hatchard Report has worked, has published a video analysing the paper. 

The paper’s authors conclude that childhood vaccination schedules appear to have nothing to do with this rise. At first sight, the data might superficially appear to support this conclusion. In 2009 there were 15 scheduled childhood vaccinations in NZ. In 2023 this number had risen to 19 including oral vaccines. This is a rise of 27% (roughly a quarter) which is 13 times less than the rise in autism cases. Yet a closer examination of the data raises significant questions.

Antigens are the so called ‘active’ ingredients in vaccines popularly understood to be inactivated or live-attenuated disease pathogens, grown in eggs or cell culture. These are intended to stimulate the immune system. In fact, beginning in 1986 vaccine antigens began to be genetically engineered or synthetically encoded. Moreover, multiple antigens began to be included in single shots. This genetically engineered type now comprises a growing majority of vaccine antigens. 

Grant Dixon has researched the number of antigens contained in the various vaccines administered to NZ children. This grew from just 37 in 2007 to 104 in 2023 with a multiplication rate of 2.8, very close to the rate of rise in autism cases. Autism is typically diagnosed at age 4 to 5. Therefore a more significant comparison of antigen impact might encompass earlier years. If you compare the antigen count in 2005 (33) to that in 2016 (111) the multiplication factor is 3.4, identical to the rise in autism cases. Grant Dixon goes on to compare the annual fluctuations in vaccine uptake and number of antigens and illustrates a close association between these factors and fluctuations in the number of autism diagnoses. 

These figures should certainly ring alarm bells and need to be investigated thoroughly. However they are being ignored by those deaf to vaccine harm who are still unfortunately in the majority. This was underlined this week when the NY Post reported that 25,000 Amish living in New York State were being targeted and heavily fined under state law because of their long term religious opposition to vaccination of their children. There is no suggestion here that Amish children are unhealthy, quite the reverse. They escaped much of the serious illness circulating during the pandemic. It is a case of the state imposing a medical hegemony upon those who wish to maintain bodily autonomy. The Amish, who live simple lives farming their land organically, have lost the first and second rounds of litigation and the case is heading to the Supreme Court. If they lose this final appeal, the entire community plans to leave the state for good. Who knows if this type of extremism will happen here in NZ?

As the position of the Amish in New York State shows, the rush to genetic experimentation is being accompanied by moves to impose genetic medicine on the whole population. Naive minds have been schooled to believe that genetic medicine is a moral imperative that should be mandated for all. Is this due to the success of gene tech PR or does this represent a precipitous decline in common sense? As published evidence of mRNA vaccine harm mounts, the situation becomes ‘curiouser and curiouser’as Alice in Wonderland would say. In other words, is the polarisation of opinion and the accompanying desire to force others to comply, a sign of deteriorating mental health, divorced from any scientific caution or fact?

The rise in autism rates suggests a possible association between gene editing and poor mental health. In 2023 we published an article “The Long Read: Mental Health Issues are Multiplying. Why?“. In this we noted a rise in mental  health distress among 15 to 24 year olds from 11% in 2020 to 24% in 2022. As more studies are being published, we are now in position to investigate more closely whether genetically modified vaccines such as the Covid mRNA vaccines negatively affected mental well being along with the  associated pandemic policies such as lockdowns. 

A 2024 study of the official health data of 558,017 residents of Seoul, South Korea aged 65 and above published by Oxford’s International Journal of Medicine is entitled “A potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and development of Alzheimer’s disease“. It found with 95% confidence that there was an association between COVID-19 vaccination, particularly mRNA vaccines, and increased incidence of both Alzheimer’s Disease and its precursor—Mild Cognitive Impairment. The authors concluded: 

“This warrants the need for further research to elucidate the relationship between vaccine-induced immune responses and neurodegenerative processes. We are advocating for continuous monitoring and investigation into the vaccines’ long-term neurological impacts.”

The two papers we have discussed here underline how much the giant commercial enterprise of biotechnology has been undertaken with the absurd and naive assumption that gene editing will not substantially affect mental health. Clearly it does. Overwhelming evidence points to this conclusion. As we have analysed repeatedly in our reports, the simple fact is that mind and body are intimately connected. Fundamentally, our cellular genetic system with DNA at its root, supports the expression of consciousness in all its facets. Moreover our health of body and mind relies on the natural genetic structures of food for nutrition. The holistic balance between mind, body and the natural world is being assaulted by a wave of genetic experimentation whose consequences are not limited to adverse effects on physical health. The balance of our human intelligence is under threat.

There are people in authority who will assert that any association between mRNA vaccines and mental health is a coincidence, they are ignoring new evidence. Sit back for a minute and review what scientific papers we have reported actually show. An association between cardiac health and mRNA vaccination status, cancer and mRNA vaccination. Ditto for immunity and mortality. Genetic processes control the WHOLE physiology. Edit genetic processes and you are editing life as a WHOLE. 

Denial is a very primitive response, people all over the world have mis-associated belief in genetic medicine with their political allegiances and aligned themselves with global pharmaceutical lobbies. This is supposedly to defend themselves from threats to public health. This is not a sign of strength, it is a sign of intellectual weakness and irrational thinking. Some would say this is a giant experiment, but thirty million pandemic deaths tell a different story. These were due to Covid infection and vaccine harm; the relative proportions are immaterial, both came from genetic experimentation in labs. 

In truth, a third world war is already in progress unlike any other war in history. Its weapons are bacterial scissors invisible to the naked eye busy cutting up the genetic code and its means of expression—the multidimensional cellular quantum structure which protects our health and allows us to exercise discrimination. These weapons can spread silently without limit, nor once released can they be recalled. Their effects cannot be remediated. In effect, they are weapons of mass destruction specifically designed to bypass the multiple layers of defence around our DNA that our physiology has built up over billions of years. This war has begun and few are yet aware it is happening, mostly they are cheering on the combatants from the grandstand, unaware that their turn is next and the final outcome is no longer in doubt.

It is time to face the truth. For politicians across all party lines this means pulling together to end gain of function research. For the individual this could mean a natural organic diet of food prepared at home, exercise, fresh air, pure water, sunshine, good company and joy. For the mind— meditation, worship, culture and truth. This is for eternity. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.…Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”

Red Flag: NZ mortality up in 2026

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Red Flag: NZ mortality up in 2026

The pandemic health legacy that is starting to bite

The year ended June 2026 figures for births and deaths have just been released by StatsNZ. Compared to the previous year: 

  • Births were down 3.6% 
  • Deaths were up 1.9% 
  • Fertility per woman was down 3.8% 
  • Infant mortality was up by 2.7% although this last statistic was inflated to some extent by late registrations. 

The rate of deaths per thousand population had been declining since a peak of 7.59 in 2022 falling to 7.02 in 2025. The 2026 figures reversed this trend with a rise to 7.10. This compares to the 2015 – 2019 average of 6.84 meaning that deaths are currently running at 3.8% above pre-pandemic levels. This equates to an additional 1,411 deaths in the year to June 2026 which would not have been expected if pre-pandemic trends had continued.

The NZ fertility rate has been declining every year since 2008 and is now at a historic low. The 2026 figures are 28% below levels necessary to maintain a population. Despite this, the NZ population is continuing to grow as a result of net immigration.

The most concerning figure in the latest data is therefore the upward movement in the rate of mortality. This increase in levels of excess mortality is very concerning. Although the 2026 rise does not yet amount to a trend, it should be a red flag. It points to a drop in the underlying level of immunity which is affecting the whole population. In this light, it remains disturbing that Health NZ are not closely investigating the possible causes. A comparison of health outcomes of the Covid vaccinated with the unvaccinated is long overdue. Studies published overseas which we have covered have pointed to differences in rates of cancer and cardiac problems for example. These have disproportionately affected younger age groups.

RCR has produced a comprehensive report showing that 311,257 NZ teens were exposed to an elevated risk of myocarditis from Covid shots despite the government having been warned of this risk prior to rolling out vaccination for this age group. We have previously reported high levels of chest pain presentations for under 40s at EDs. Prior to the pandemic it was recognised in the literature that there is a five year elevated risk of complications following a myocarditis diagnosis. Five years have now passed since these shots. Health NZ should be following up and producing a very detailed picture of cardiac health outcomes as a precautionary measure. 

A great many published studies have focused on investigating an immune deficit following Covid vaccination. Since the year to June figures were compiled more evidence of a health deficit in NZ has emerged. You must have read about the depth of the current flu and winter illness seasonal health crisis. Hospitals are overwhelmed as never before. On August 15 the NZ Herald reported “Middlemore Hospital hits ‘terrifying’ record as paramedics treat patients in corridors” In one 24 hour period nearly 500 patients presented to ED at Middlemore beating the previous record of 280. According to Stuff newspaper, the St John ambulance service activated its major incident response and emergency operations centre after a week of sustained exceptional demand culminated in its busiest day on record. This week Stuff headlined “Flu wards set up, elective surgery cancelled as hospital admissions surge”. The NZ Herald reported high rates of student absences due to sickness and parents unable to cope at home. The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners has asked practices nationwide to reinstate some Covid-era infection controls, including phone-first triage and separating patients with respiratory symptoms.

Without a detailed investigation of the causes of the higher levels of sickness among the general population broken down by age, vaccination status, and disease type, it is not possible for Health NZ to understand and respond appropriately to the current health crisis. A task force should be set up to undertake this analysis as a precautionary priority and make their findings public. This will inform and potentially reassure the public by determining how much of this effect is due to Covid infection and how much to vaccination or other factors.

A New Approach to the November Election 

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A New Approach to the November Election 

On August 6, Chris Bishop the NZ Attorney General gave a speech at the Law Society in which he reasserted ‘Parliament’s role as the supreme law-making body in New Zealand’. He continued by saying that ‘the judiciary had to avoid attempts to use the courts to re-litigate Parliament’s choices’. In other words, he laid out a parliamentary agenda which appeared opposed to a traditional role of the courts to act as a last resort defence of our human right to ‘fairness’ and ‘reasonableness’. This traces its origin back to the Magna Carta which in essence limited the power of the head of state over their subjects (us). Thus, courts in the UK have from time to time in history reigned in the power of parliament by passing judgements that take account of what ‘right thinking individuals consider to be fair between a person and the state’. Apparently Chris Bishop wishes to ensure that this doesn’t happen here in NZ.

There is no doubt that the events of the last six years have to a great extent emasculated any power of the courts in NZ to defend the provisions of our Bill of Rights (see our 2021 article “Where did our rights go?”). Under pressure, and in some cases out of a sense of fear, the courts, regulatory and professional bodies appear to have meekly deferred to the will of parliament over enforced medical mandates. A growing body of reputable scientific evidence shows that their rulings were weak, misguided and detrimental to public health. The decision of parliament to enforce Covid mandates overrode human rights to medical choice, bodily autonomy and informed consent. In this way, parliamentary law directly and adversely impacted the lives of many individuals. The courts have so far failed to acknowledge or rectify these mistakes.

Particularly as a consequence of the past failings of parliament and the courts, as we head into the November elections, many are feeling that parliament routinely ignores the provisions of our Bill of Rights. Some politicians are taking the concept of parliamentary supremacy to its extreme of absolute control. Therefore there is a fear that the next parliament could reinstate the concept of medical hegemony that was used during the pandemic. This is especially concerning because the US FDA, whose rulings NZ mostly follows, has just given the green light to the Moderna mRNA flu vaccine which in trials had a significantly higher rate of serious adverse effects when compared to traditional flu vaccine formulations (you can read the full story in an article by Dr. Maryanne Demasi). Any decision to roll out this vaccine widely in NZ in 2027 will be ultimately overseen by our next parliament. 

This article will discuss the reality of sovereignty and lay out a road map forward, a way ahead out of the mess that our once proud nation faces.

First we take issue with the reality of parliamentary sovereignty. Scientifically speaking, the governance of the nation is largely in the hands of natural law rather than national law. This is an established understanding found in the work of ancient Greek philosophers. An analogy will make this clear. In the human body there are trillions of cells performing trillions upon trillions of tasks. Human initiated or voluntary actions form a tiny fraction of these. In the same way, throughout the nation, the air, earth, water, sun, animals and plants perform uncountable tasks every second whose outcomes sustain human life. This support of natural law dwarves any actions of parliament. All of nature’s actions are under the direct sway or rule of the laws of nature which have been investigated by modern science. It is natural law not parliamentary law that is the real sovereign power in the nation.

Unfortunately the actions of governments, corporations and individuals often violate the natural order of life. The widespread use of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and synthetic fertilisers ends up depleting the fertility of the soil. Our oceans and rivers are being polluted and chemicalized, posing dangers to health and food sources. Air pollution in our cities impacts respiratory health and reduces lifespan. Ubiquitous use of food additives and processing aids has undermined health and exposed populations to a range of largely modern illnesses and cancers at earlier and earlier ages. As we have discussed in our many articles (see here and here), these trends are exacerbated by novel biotechnologies which pose serious risks to the stability of life itself including our reproductive capacity. 

Political pressure does sometimes result in positive change. This week, US Health Secretary R F Kennedy Jr. implemented a plan which tightens a decades-old loophole that allowed food companies to put certain chemicals in their products without first notifying the nation’s food regulators. The rules surrounding the GRAS or ‘generally recognised as safe’ food designation have been tightened. Companies now need to submit evidence of safety to the FDA, whereas previously they were able rate their own products as safe without oversight. But such progress is generally rare, thousands of novel chemicals are added annually to the list of food additives and chemicals in common use. The chemicals in cosmetics for example remain largely unregulated. Soil, air and ocean pollution are on the increase. It is hard to escape the notion that natural law needs protecting and that parliament is not about to do that for us.

How do you vote for natural law? 

The answer can be stated simply. Every time we buy clothing made of natural untreated fibres we are voting for natural law and a reduction in microplastics. Every time we buy fresh produce or read the labels in the supermarket and make a healthy choice we are voting for natural law. Every time we buy organic produce we are voting to phase out harmful agrichemicals. Our many daily choices matter and they directly affect what is sold and used. It is no good advocating chemical free food if our pantry and refrigerator are stuffed full of conventional produce or our clothing and houses contain forever chemicals. We have to live the life we espouse, otherwise we are whistling in the wind and helping to create a future we don’t want.

You would be justified in saying that sometimes we appear to have no choice, many traditional food ingredients and other natural technologies are being phased out. Because of this, we have to look deeper into the structure of natural law itself. As we have discussed in numerous articles the universe is awake (see here for example), consciousness lies at the heart of the cosmos. In our article The Sacred Cell and Conscious Genes we explained how consciousness is at the nexus of cellular organisation and function. In our article The Structure of Consciousness, we examined research that shows practicing meditation enhances both individual and collective consciousness as evidenced by reduced city crime, conflict and other problems.

It is no good feeling helpless in the run up to the election. There is a lot we can do to bolster the chances of nature having a greater say in our future. Nature is also our nature. Thus there is a broader political dimension to the practice of meditation, the government is a reflection or innocent mirror of the collective consciousness of the nation. High levels of stress and disharmony in the general population will naturally result in an ineffective government. Conversely multiple studies show that even small rates of participation in meditation practice as low as 1% (I in a 100) stimulates economic growth. 

The practice of meditation is a means to reduce stress in individual and collective life which will improve public health. The wider benefits of natural approaches to health are described by the ancient system of Ayurveda and many other cultural traditions like it. Exercise, herbal foods, yoga postures, breathing exercises, fresh air and sunshine all have a vital role to play in ensuring our relationship with the laws of nature remains supportive. As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If you want to find out more about Ayurveda, there is a new book out in our NZ bookshops: Practical Ayurveda—Find Out Who You Are and What You Need to Bring Balance to Your Life.

We are currently living in a world where knowledge is being challenged by illusion. There are a great many opinions being tightly and widely held that are contrary to fact. This has led to polarisation and conflict. Aligning our life more closely with natural law will provide an entry point to a more harmonious and understanding world. Knowledge has organising power and the knowledge we need is the knowledge of natural law. This is not foreign knowledge, it is the knowledge of our own consciousness, summed up in the phrase ‘knowledge is structured in consciousness’. Supporting natural law in the run up to the election will ensure there is a better outcome for everyone. There is no time to lose. A transformation in our behaviour will require persistence and conviction, but the reward will be an effect of greater understanding and rejuvenation.

We need to start today while choices are still available to us, before we are overtaken by the uncertain events of tomorrow. For those who want to improve the world we live in, natural law is not an optional strategy. We must start choosing to operate in harmony with the natural world. Otherwise we will be perpetuating the mistakes of yesterday and the new parliament will fail by default.

Biotechnology has developed new drugs for a range of conditions, there is a catch—mammoth rates of adverse reactions. 

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Biotechnology has developed new drugs for a range of conditions, there is a catch—mammoth rates of adverse reactions. 

Finally some NZ media articles are calling for accountability for some of the mistakes of the Covid years including the failure to warn the public of the risk of myocarditis from mRNA vaccines. In the USA, Fauci’s diaries reveal he knew about the lab origin of Covid and sought to mislead the public. Senator Rand Paul has referred Fauci to the justice department after his refusal to answer questions from a Senate committee. These small steps come after six years of persistent questioning on the part of thousands of people around the world. However, those injured still have little or in most cases no compensation or acknowledgement. More to the point, while many have been doggedly calling for accountability for Covid, some of those responsible are not just unrepentant but have, throughout the intervening six years, developed and promoted a biotech agenda fraught with novel risks to public health. 

For example, GLP-1 weight loss drugs have been hailed as a miracle medical breakthrough which will turbo charge preventive approaches to type 1 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, osteoarthritis, fatty liver disease, some cancers including breast, colorectal, uterine, kidney, and pancreatic cancers, as well as anxiety and depression linked to obesity. This is actually hope not reality.

Figures published by the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) show that they have received more than 150,000 reports of adverse reactions to the GLP-1 weight-loss drugs available through the NHS. These include liraglutide, also known as Saxenda; semaglutide, offered as Wegovy and Ozempic; and tirzepatide, also known as Mounjaro. MHRA operates a yellow card adverse reaction system which, like our NZ CARM, is known to be heavily under-reported, in some cases by a factor of ten. MHRA reported that 16,000 of the adverse reactions were rated as serious, resulting in 150 deaths to date.

There are an estimated 1.6 million people in the UK taking weight loss drugs. The MHRA figures show that at least 10% of these people suffered adverse reactions to GLP-1 drugs, almost certainly many times more. For at least 1% (1 in a hundred) these reactions are serious enough to require medical interventions. 1 in 10,000 are likely to die. These rates are staggeringly high. Before the Covid pandemic, any drug associated with these rates of adverse reactions and death would have been withdrawn from use and sale.

Instead Dr Alison Cave, the MHRA’s chief safety officer, in an act of doublespeak that defies common sense, assessed the mammoth risk rates as ‘very small’, saying: 

“Patient safety is the MHRA’s top priority and we continually monitor the safety and efficacy of all licensed medicines. For the vast majority of patients who are prescribed GLP-1s, they are safe and effective medicines, which deliver significant health benefits. The risk of developing these severe side-effects is very small, but it is important that patients and healthcare professionals are aware and alert to the associated symptoms.” 

Such smooth talking reassurances perfectly mimic the pronouncements of the drug manufacturers. A Novo Nordisk spokesperson said of its GLP-1 drugs: “At Novo Nordisk we care deeply about patient safety. Like all medicines, treatments used for chronic conditions can have side-effects, and these can vary from person to person. That is why medicines should be prescribed by, and used under the supervision of, a healthcare professional, who can consider the potential benefits and risks for each individual.”

The most common adverse symptoms of GLP-1 weight loss drugs include gastrointestinal conditions like nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea and constipation. In more serious cases these reactions can lead to bowel obstruction, perforation or leaking through the bowel wall. Other adverse effects include bone and muscle mass loss and nutrient deficiencies. Long term changes to mental health have also been reported including anhedonia and emotional blunting—loss of pleasure or interest in regular activities, sleep disturbance, depression and anxiety associated with loss of food related emotional coping mechanisms. The most serious reactions include gallbladder problems, blindness, elevated heart rate, and necrotising pancreatitis. MHRA had logged 1,143 cases of severe pancreatitis by the start of this year resulting in 17 deaths, prompting MHRA to attach a warning to GLP-1 products. 

GLP-1 drugs function by modifying the cellular signalling and downstream gene expression of the GLP1R and GIPR genes contained in a person’s DNA, thereby altering physiological processes which control appetite. The huge range of adverse effects illustrate how an intervention designed to affect a single pathway of genetic expression can and does lead to a range of unexpected outcomes. This is because our genetic system of physiological control is multidimensional and multitasking, The simplistic notion promoted to the public that one gene causes one effect is completely wrong—a dangerous over simplification of the complexity of genetic systems

GLP-1 drugs present just one example of the changing face of medication and patient safety since the Covid era began. This represents a step away from proven solutions which really do work with high success rates free from side effects like improved diet, exercise, sunshine, fresh air, lifestyle and meditation. Just as changing the fundamental frequency of a digital watch would alter all of its functions and distort displayed readings, novel biotech drugs force our physiology to operate within biomolecular parameters far removed from previously understood physiological norms. This results in a wide range of adverse health conditions that require constant monitoring which can only be carried out by highly qualified trained health professionals. These are not safe drugs, they are ongoing experiments affecting whole populations whose outcomes should be recognisably dangerous. We are being herded into programs whereby we lose control of our body and fall into the hands of drug companies with deceptive messaging whose major focus is profit, not people.

Novo Nordisk commands resources which dwarf those of the NZ health service. It’s second-quarter 2026 adjusted operating profit reached 33.4 billion Danish kroner (approx. NZ$9.4 billion—five times the total NZ drug budget), an 11% increase driven heavily by high demand for its GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and the Wegovy weight-loss injection and new pill. GLP-1 products generate the vast majority of the company’s total revenue and profit streams. According to USA Today, some 4,400 US patients have filed lawsuits against weight-loss drug manufacturers since 2023. Test trials are not expected until 2027.

You may be horrified by the GLP-1 statistics we have presented here, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Dozens of novel drugs that directly affect genetic expression are being approved by medical regulators without sufficient consideration of their short and long term effects. More is to come. A BBC article this week headlines “Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses. The article reports the creation of 16 entirely synthetic viral bacteriophages, which were not constructed from live material found in nature. The viruses were successfully used to kill E. Coli bacteria. The plan is to develop medicines to replace antibiotics whose effectiveness is waning as drug resistant strains of bacteria develop due to overuse and insertion in the food chain. 

What could possibly go wrong? You don’t have to go far to find out, In a commentary accompanying the publication announcing the virus creation breakthrough in the journal Science, Dr Thomas Inglesby and Dr Moritz Hanke from the prestigious Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University wrote that the findings raise “urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions”. They said it was no longer a question of “whether generative viral genome design will exist” but whether it can be used without “enabling serious harm”. The public will be on the sharp end of this harm.

As many honest and dedicated campaigners are still stuck struggling to work through the fallout from the Covid virus and Covid vaccines along with the pharmaceutical PR barrage that has obscured the truth, the biotech industry is forging ahead with programs that are irrevocably altering medicine, agriculture and the processed food industry. These programs are creating novel serious risks to individual health with horrific long term consequences for public health. It is a system that became supercharged by the allure of the vast Covid era profits, built on rogue research that ignored risk and promised miracle cures unjustified by hard evidence. If it is not reigned in soon, the Covid era will soon be replayed on an even bigger stage. All the same fear tactics will be employed to manipulate acceptance of medical mandates while critics and whistleblowers are silenced. There is no time to lose.

Major Alert: A convergence of risk to mental and physical health is occurring as a range of modern technologies are implemented

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Major Alert: A convergence of risk to mental and physical health is occurring as a range of modern technologies are implemented

In this article we will look at the different ways a range of recently introduced technology is impacting our body and mind creating a perfect storm of risk—electrical, chemical, genetic and psychological. We look at possible solutions and means to protect ourselves.

Electric Fields

You may have bought a hybrid or electric car some time during the last thirty years, happy with the understanding that they are cheaper to run and better for the environment. Quite apart from what we do with the mountain of discarded electric vehicles loaded with unusual metals and chemicals once they reach the end of their life, there is another concerning feature of these cars. 

You might have often wondered why anyone would build a home under electricity pylons? Published research has failed to verify suspected links to illness, except in the case of childhood leukaemia leading the International Agency for Research on Cancer to determine there is sufficient well established evidence to label extremely low frequency fields as “possibly carcinogenic”. The get out of jail free card for the regulators is the fact that the strength of the magnetic and electric fields generated by electricity transmission lines falls off sharply over distance according to an inverse square law. So high voltage lines rated at 220,000 volts must be at least 8.5–11 meters off the ground near housing.

Conventional cars have a 12 volt battery but electric and hybrid cars operate at 400-800 volts. A Toyota Prius for example operates at 650 volts. Sitting in the car you will be within one metre of this voltage, often less. Now do the math; the magnitude of the effect at 10 metres will be 1/(20)2 = 0.0025 of the effect at half a metre. In other words 220,000 volts at 10 metres distance will have an impact equivalent to the exposure to 550 volts on some sitting positions in a hybrid or electric car. This adds another layer to the electromagnetic smog that surrounds us generated by cell phones, wireless routers and computers concentrated in cities.

It doesn’t stop there. Dental tomography, now widely used to provide 3D images of teeth, operates immediately around your head at voltages ranging from 60,000 to 120,000 volts. If you come away after a scan with the unusual feeling that someone has been messing with your brain, you are not mistaken. The inter and intra cellular communication in the human body relies on electromagnetic fields, the full extent of the effects of the exposures from hybrid and electric cars and cell phones is not widely appreciated, but as we have seen, such fields are known to be at the very least  ‘possibly carcinogenic’ and almost certainly more. A cell phone in your back pocket is affecting your reproductive organs, in your shirt pocket it is right next to your heart. If you still want to drive a hybrid car but have become worried about exposure to high electromagnetic fields, Mazda and Toyota have produced ‘mild hybrid’ cars which only reach 48 volts. From my side I would prefer we go the other way, reduce batteries from 12 volts to just 6 volts. Write to us if you have had any consistent negative experiences that you associate with driving in electric vehicles or being exposed to electric fields. Some people are more sensitive than others, but we are all being affected..

Biotechnology

Regular readers will be well aware of the risks to health arising through the implementation of novel biotechnologies in the medical, defence and food sectors. All life begins with the whole cell. The risks of biotechnology arise because in essence it involves devising means to penetrate the cell membrane and edit the fundamental structure and function of life in the DNA and cellular cytoplasm (the engine of the cell) upon which our entire mental and physical health depends.

These risks were highlighted last week when the journal Science published an article entitled “A Fatal Reaction—A cutting edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability.” A six year old girl died when she suffered a severe immune reaction a week after receiving an experimental spinal injection of edited viral material designed to penetrate the neurons in her brain and edit a single DNA base from a T to a C. The girl suffered from a rare single base pair mutation which causes learning difficulties. The parents paid the hospital US$860,000 to receive the treatment with informed consent forms stating that it would correct a small mistake in “Your child’s ‘DNA book’ which has caused a disease that affects growth, and may get serious later on”. In fact DNA is not in any way like a linear ‘book’, it is part of a multidimensional complex cellular system, in which genetic sequences have multiple roles. In other words, edit one base pair and you risk changing many physiological functions in unexpected ways. The immune system is designed to protect the integrity of the DNA and in this case a strong immune rejection led to the child’s death.

The problems with biotech experimentation have become obvious to informed independent observers: very high cost, low success rates, high rates of a wide range of adverse effects including mortality risk, immune rejection, and inherent mutagenesis. Along with this, is an industry with a huge PR budget to pull the wool over people’s eyes and push for government funding and deregulation. The onslaught of biotech PR is unrelenting. See for example this NZ Herald video “Biotech sector eyes global growth as calls grow for faster regulatory reform” in which Zara Champion from Biotech NZ calls for reduced regulation and increased government funding based on a raft of substantiated promises and a blind eye turned away from the risks. 

Artificial Intelligence 

A.I. is the perfect platform to sell an illusion. Propaganda and PR are not new to the world, they have helped to drive fraud and conflict for millennia, but the advent of A.I. tools has promoted the art of persuasion to new heights. A.I. connected to your TV, computer and cell phone can track where you are every minute of the day, the shops you visit, the subjects you are interested in and your conversations, including what you say about your health. It can then begin to shape your preferences and twist your ideas. This has had a significant impact on mental health, especially for the young. 

This manipulation is not just for commercial gain, it often polarises opinion and creates division. Your vote is at stake and in the wider world whose side you take in geopolitical, ideological, religious and ethnic conflicts. Rather than reading and thinking, we are being persuaded by simplistic slogans and promises that routinely bear little relation to scientific, economic, political, medical and historical fact. This is creating more instability in society. 

As a result, whole populations have been schooled to assimilate dangerous ideas and practices that make no sense. The ‘single podium of truth’ and ‘safe and effective’ mantras of the Covid reign seen across continents came from PR companies crafting phrases that sound reassuring, stick in the memory and demand compliance, but lack scientific legitimacy. These marketing strategies supported the economic interests of the biotech/pharma industrial complex  We are being taught to consume pills and products that often make health worse, whilst laying the blame for our woes on fictitious scenarios and scapegoats. 

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology involves manipulating matter at the nanoscale, down to 1/100,000 the width of a human hair. The aim is to create new and unique materials and products. The nano scale is not just small; it is so small that even the most powerful conventional microscopes cannot see it. Thereby the technology poses unique risks and bypasses scrutiny.

A 2025 study entitled “Nanotoxicity unveiled: Evaluating exposure risks and assessing the impact of nanoparticles on human health” discussed the growing use of nanotechnology in medicine, agriculture and the environment. It emphasises that nanoparticles can induce reactive oxygen species, triggering oxidative stress, inflammation, and disturbances in cellular antioxidant defences. Nanoparticles are hard to break down so they can build up in the environment. Their toxicity and reactivity depends on factors like size, shape and surface charge. Their small size enables them to pass critical protective barriers surrounding cells and organs, including the blood brain barrier, where they can affect genetic expression. For example lipid nanoparticles were used in mRNA Covid vaccines which enabled the spike protein to affect a range of organs including the heart, liver and the brain. The comprehensive study cited above warned that there is little regulation of the sector and concluded:

“The expanding integration of nanoparticles into biological systems has raised valid concerns regarding their potential toxicity and long-term biocompatibility.”

Food Technologies

Nano particles are widely used in food packaging, clothing treatments, and foods: 

  • Nanoclays are mixed into plastics to block oxygen and moisture, in order to give items like bottled drinks a longer shelf life. Tiny clay bits and modifier chemicals can break away from the packaging and enter foods. Once ingested they are small enough to cause cellular disruption, gut imbalance, and toxic metal exposure.
  • Silver nanoparticles are embedded in packaging and clothing to kill microbes and bacteria. From there it washes down drains where it kills beneficial bacteria and harms aquatic life. 
  • Carbon nanotubes create tiny sensors which change colour when spoiled food releases gases. Inhaling thin carbon nanotubes can cause lung inflammation, scarring (fibrosis), and tissue damage that acts very much like asbestos exposure.
  • Titanium oxide particles are used in candies like M&Ms, meat substitutes and cookies to create shiny surfaces which can be coated with vibrant colours attractive to children. Research shows it is a neurotoxin and immunotoxin, and can also damage the reproductive system, cause birth defects and damage genes.

As we have reported in our article The Extraordinary Genetically Modified Invasion of Our Supermarkets by Stealth, genetically modified microorganisms (GMMs) are used extremely widely in the food processing industry without regulation or identification on labels. The risks to health are serious. GMMs are catalytic bacterial engines specifically designed to accelerate and maximise cell proliferation. They are used in batch fermentation processes to produce food ingredients. Their residual presence equates to a risk of malignant cellular growth and interference with beneficial microbial processes in our gut.

Agriculture

Nanotechnology and biotechnology have become synonymous with the concept of agricultural sustainability. They are supposed to promote plant health and growth and protect from pests and disease. However the same problems that plague food applications are cropping up in our fields and streams. These include persistent environmental contamination of soil and water systems, cellular penetration and toxicity due to their small size leading to stunted root and shoot growth, high mobility leading to unintended spread, pest and herbicide resistance leading to higher and more toxic agri-chemical use, accumulation in plant tissue and animal flesh leading to food safety concerns and destruction of helpful soil bacteria.

A Perfect Storm

There is an old proverb that describes three types of food—bronze, silver and gold. Bronze food is what we eat, this needs to be naturally sourced and free from contamination. Silver food comprises those influences we take in through the senses. These effects are long lasting and can reappear and influence our psychological emotions and responses at later times. Gold food is the most precious, this comprises the company we keep, our family interactions, friends and working environment. This should be positive and life supporting. Modern technology has invaded all types of food. In ways that are hardly visible to the senses, mind or heart. We need to bolster our faculties of discrimination to counter these effects. We should judge information, food and perception using three criteria:

Personal Experience — Scientific Logic — Long Standing Values.

For food, ask whether our grandparents used or ate it? How does it taste, what does it contain, where did it come from, has it been tested?

For ideas, think for yourself, assess sources for reliability, analyse the conclusions, use common sense. Be awake to fact and fiction.

Good company enhances life’s journey. Where is the time for the unwanted? This extends to social media, use discrimination.

These days our government, sectors of industry, health services, multinational corporations, and even foreign powers wish to control our choices. A band of thieves may be very strong, but the raised voice of a watchman can deter their advance and frustrate their intentions. The same is true of those who continue to promote technologies that pose risks to human health, peace and well being. They may possess power and authority, but if alert and discriminating people persist in raising their voices, their success becomes difficult. Modern technology is threatening the stability of life as we have known it. If we do not raise our voice we can be overwhelmed.

Documentary exposes hidden health risks in our food chain

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Documentary exposes hidden health risks in our food chain

Australia’s ABC Four Corners has released a must see documentary on food safety entitled “We tested your groceries. This is what we found” which is now available to view on YouTube. The programme examines the deficient practices of FSANZ which governs food safety in both Australia and New Zealand. Four Corners tested a range of products from supermarket shelves including:

Tinned Tomatoes, Tomato Paste, Passata, Eggs, Seafood, Turmeric, Alcohol

It tested for country of origin, contaminants, adulteration and substitution of ingredients. It found food labelling fraud is very widespread in the processed food industry, including among our most purchased brands. It also revealed deliberate efforts by food technologists to develop food addictions to unhealthy ingredients even from an early age, along with labelling that obscures what is actually going into foods. In the program, there are interviews with a range of regulators, food testers and industry employees which reveal the wide scale of fraud.

The program found that food fraud has been on the increase since 2019. Tests identified tomatoes labelled ‘Grown in Australia’ actually produced in China using Uiger forced labour and tomato paste from Italy grown by Nigerian immigrants earning 2 or 3 Euros a day. Turmeric containing contaminants, bulking agents and even added colouring from lead chromate. Coconut milk with dairy contamination dangerous to those with allergies. Bread with iron filings. Meat from horses, cats and dogs sold as beef. Eggs labelled cage-free actually from cages. Whiskey with eight times the legal limit of highly toxic methanol contamination. Olive oil sold to the catering and restaurant industry as ‘extra virgin’ when it is actually cheaper oil disguised by green colouring. Fish labelled as locally farmed when it came from fish farms in Vietnam. Food labelled ‘100% Natural’ with artificial ingredients, and so on.

Remarkably, producers and retailers such as Woolworths and Coles contacted by the program about the alarming test results routinely refused to accept the results and acknowledge liability. FSANZ which is supposed to ensure food is safe and healthy has a Health Star Rating system scored out of five which has been ‘gamed’ by the food industry so that half of all products scoring more that 2.5 on the scale are actually unhealthy. A tiny proportion of foods sold are routinely tested. When challenged, FSANZ informed the program that their health rating system needs to take account of the needs of the food industry.

We suggest you watch the program for the details, it is a real eye opener. Alarming though the program is, our regular readers will see that it covers only a part of the problem, regulators are allowing high herbicide and pesticide content to go unlabelled while genetically engineered ingredients and processing aids posing unquantified health risks are being widely used without identification.

Our average Kiwi diet now includes 50% ultra processed foods which are causing a range of health problems. Moreover the problems especially affect our youth, undermining their health, longevity and behaviour. The take home lesson of the programme should be that fresh whole unprocessed local ingredients, preferably organic, win every time when it comes to food safety and nutrition.

An unwanted future is taking shape as biotechnology experimentation proliferates

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An unwanted future is taking shape as biotechnology experimentation proliferates

The media needs to cover new research findings

Regular readers will be aware that for the last five years we have been warning of serious risks associated with biotechnology experimentation. We have documented risks being generated in the agricultural sector, the public health arena and the defence research establishment associated with the introduction of genetically modified components. We have made it a policy to reference our concerns to research papers published in scientific journals. This article will examine the possible extent of these risks and the likely effects for individual, national and geopolitical affairs.

Last week there were newspaper reports published in NZ when Billy TK was hospitalised after suffering a heart attack labelling him a Covid conspiracist. Far from offering appropriate support and understanding, these reports were remarkable for the vehemence of the attacks on Billy TK because he spoke out during the pandemic about the dangers of mRNA vaccination. Apparently, the media has failed to make any effort to update its rushed compliance with government pandemic policy. As we have been reporting, published research in reputable journals has reversed many of the hasty opinions formed during the pandemic under a blanket of fear and a barrage of misinformed publicity. It should now be clear there are elevated risks of cancer, heart disease, immune deficiency, neurological disease and mental illness associated with mRNA vaccination. This evidence includes massive retrospective studies of the subsequent health care utilisation records of whole populations (see here for example).

It is clear that there is a social media and mainstream media consensus concerning the supposed value of gene based medicine. It is very hard to go against this consensus because it is so entrenched in the public psyche. Its roots go back to the introduction of so called miracle medical cures for diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis and polio that did not actually involve gene therapy. The deceptively rosy aura surrounding gene medicine is continually bolstered by public relations pronouncements promising imminent cures for diseases like cancer and other serious illnesses which never actually eventuate. In reality gene therapies represent a structural break with past medical approaches and they carry novel serious risks. Despite the 75 years that have elapsed since the discovery of DNA, gene therapies remain plagued by adverse effects and the absence of any genuine success. Nor are the risks confined to medical biotechnology, as we have reported they extend to the replacement of traditional food ingredients, additives and processing aids with gene altered components. The press and the ill-informed social consensus have failed to take account of the novelty and the risks to the health of society at large.

Biotechnology defence programs are creating global risks

Given the overwhelming suspicion and consensus that Covid itself escaped from a lab where it had been artificially created, it is remarkable that foolhardy genetic gain of function experiments are continuing in nations around the globe under biosafety protocols that are far from safe, nor likely to ever be so. A report published on July 17 by Paul D Thacker on Substack highlights safety concerns and deficiencies at the US NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratory (RML), a virology research lab which studies the world’s most lethal pathogens—such as Ebola, the highly infectious Coxiella Burnetii (an intracellular bacterium that causes Q fever), Tularemia (a tick borne disease known as rabbit fever) and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. RML operates under the highest Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4), but a whistleblower has revealed that RML has no viable control plan if a researcher is accidentally exposed to something, as happened last November when a monkey infected with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV) bit a worker. The resulting confusion revealed the extreme inadequacies of RML safety protocols, reminiscent of the haphazard and wholly ineffective response when Covid escaped from the Wuhan Virology Lab after workers suffered Covid infections as early as November 2019 which rapidly spread throughout the city and beyond to the world.

The whistleblower reported that the administration at RML wants workers to continue their work at level 4 “no matter the cost, because they think it’s the most important work on the planet—that must be done, no matter what it takes.”

Research at RML is considered to be of the highest priority because it is part of the US effort to develop bioweapon defence programs. The stated aim is ‘Countermeasure Development’. The urgency and fear arises because no genuinely effective and foolproof countermeasures have been discovered to date. Scientists at RML study high-consequence and maximum-containment pathogens in an effort to develop diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics. In fact, the line between bioweapon development and countermeasures is a very fine one indeed. In order to test supposed countermeasures, researchers must first produce examples of bioweapons themselves. Therefore safety inadequacies are tantamount to a ticking time bomb for global disaster. It doesn’t stop at RML, multiple countries and labs around the world are doing similar research often in even more insecure facilities. The resulting proliferation of risk resembles the spread of a global disease. What could possibly go wrong?

Biotechnology accidents can devastate society

If in fact new biological threats escape into wider populations, by the ready mobility of genetic material they will not be able to be recalled, contained or remediated. As happened with Covid, they could spread without limit and their effects will be be long lasting. Moreover, if present unsafe genetic experimentation continues, it is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’. It is quite possible, if not likely, that the resulting ‘pandemic’ will be far more serious and deadly than Covid.

When this happens, we can imagine that cities will be the least safe environments in which to live. Cities are natural breeding grounds for pollution, surveillance, contagion and enforcement. Panicked thinking will drive events. Reliance on faulty WHO and government responses cemented by historical misunderstandings dating from the Covid era could rapidly take over. In the atmosphere of fear that a new pandemic will generate, whole populations could be manipulated and coerced into compliance with hurried medical responses like the mRNA vaccines. These had little or no success but almost certainly compounded damage to health. 

Given research on vaccine delivery systems currently taking place, measures taken during a future pandemic may include air borne interventions, changes to water systems or additions to the food chain that will affect the whole population whether they choose to participate or not. The whole cycle of mandates and restrictions could reappear overnight without serious consideration of the adverse consequences. These should be apparent but only if the government, the media and the medical establishment update their analysis of Covid pandemic research findings. Unfortunately the approving consensus surrounding biotechnology has elevated it to the status of a proto-religion which has been accorded an unquestioned and untouchable status in the minds of many. The articles attacking Billy TK at a time when sympathy and support is called for, illustrate how deeply false prejudice and historical government misunderstandings remain stored in the national psyche.

Events may acquire the characteristics of global conflict

The Covid pandemic has ushered in an era of concern and dis-ease which is showing no signs of wholly dissipating. Life has not returned to a genuine sense of normality. There has been a proliferation of extreme opinions and an increased polarisation of extreme ideas. These can be misguided, unscientific or irrational without supporting evidence, along with calls to impose these on other individuals and groups. This is reminiscent of the confusion and instability that arose in the 1930s. Potentially a war is on the horizon, but not a war like previous wars. Each successive wave of global conflict reveals new weapons that displace those of previous conflicts. Whether biotechnology will feature in any future conflict is unknown, but seems increasingly likely. 

Therefore it is a matter of the greatest urgency to update our understanding of the fundamentals of life. Gene modifications tinker with the foundations of life and pose dangers of the highest order. Reading between the lines, there are some faint signs of growing misgivings and a realisation of the limitations of our current simplistic genetic paradigm. A recent interview with the Nobel Prize winning geneticist and discoverer of CRISPR gene editing, Jennifer Doudna, reveals seeds of discontent with the claims of large A.I. companies and Big Pharma that miracle cures are just around the corner. In fact, as we have reported, the most recent discoveries point to fundamental limitations to simple interpretations of genetic systems. The sooner these implications filter into government policy, the better. Commenting on the Doudna interview, prominent biosafety expert Richard H Ebright commented :

“Doudna is correct. Hype about A.I. ‘solving biology’ or ‘revolutionising drug discovery’ is scientifically illiterate and scientifically unsound nonsense. Companies founded on such hype will fail. Investments based on such hype will tank.” 

Despite the hope that the biotechnology ‘safe and effective’ bubble may burst (see here for growing moves by the US justice system to bring those involved with Covid origins to account), concerns like Ebright’s are not enough, risky biotechnology experimentation has to cease and the public must be properly informed of the risks so that they can make the correct ballot box decisions. The media carries the burden of responsibility to get real about reputable research pointing to serious adverse health risks.

High risk biotechnology experimentation is gathering pace

Guy Hatchard
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High risk biotechnology experimentation is gathering pace

Much loved Kiwi actor Sam Neill has died suddenly. In March 2023 Neill announced he had been diagnosed with Stage 3 angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (a rare form of blood cancer) the previous year. Neill underwent chemotherapy which failed to stem the cancer progression so he switched to bi-weekly infusions of a rare specialised anti-cancer drug which initially showed promise, until it too failed. In 2025-2026 Neil enrolled in an experimental CAR T-cell gene therapy trial in Australia. This involved harvesting his own T-cells, genetically modifying them using viral vectors to program them to target his specific cancer type and then replacing them into his body. In April 2026 Neill announced that he was cancer free. Current newspaper articles report that during the last few weeks Neill had been suffering from pneumonia. His immediate cause of death has not yet been announced.

Neill hoped that the publicity surrounding his illness would lead to more government support for CAR T-cell gene therapy treatment. According to an article in Nature, CAR T-cell therapy costs about NZ$820,000 per shot. 85% of patients go into initial remission but only just over half of them are still in remission at the end of the first year. CAR T-cell therapy is not without serious risk. It can cause severe side effects, including cytokine release syndrome (CRS), a dangerous inflammatory response that ranges from mild flu-like symptoms in less severe cases to multi-organ failure and even death. The Nature article reports that with a combination of newer powerful adjunct drug regimes and vigilance, a team of attending doctors is required to try to work out how far to push treatment without triggering CRS.

Neill may have not been fully aware of research which shows that genetic modification therapies including CAR T-cell treatment can leave patients immunocompromised. You may have seen the recent article reprinted by Stuff newspaper “‘Biohacker’ Bryan Johnson diagnosed with incurable disease. We mentioned Bryan Johnson last year in our article “The Big Debate: How Many New Doctors Will NZ Need if the Gene Technology Bill is Passed?“. Johnson is a 48 year old billionaire who employs 30 doctors to manage his health using biotechnology. He takes 91 pills each day and undergoes intravenous infusions and blood transfusions. Last year he boasted he only ages 8 months for each calendar year he lives. A Netflix documentary about him failed to mention the extreme risks involved in his search for the elusive elixir of eternal life. In his latest report Johnson reveals that he has developed an incurable autoimmune form of gastritis (AIG) whereby his stomach is eating itself. This not the first hiccup in Johnson’s journey, previous biotech interventions had to be abandoned after damaging his health.

“AIG causes irreversible damage: nutritional deficiency, anaemia, and over a long horizon, elevated cancer risk,” the Silicon Valley mogul wrote recently on social media.

Bryan Johnson has a huge cult following who admire him as a pioneer guinea pig working for the future benefit of mankind. Judging by some of the adoring and encouraging comments on his social media page, they have swallowed Johnson’s belief that AIG must have developed as a result of some fast food he ate in his youth. Johnson’s adherents may not be aware of multiple studies showing that autoimmune conditions can develop in response to gene therapies. The recognised mechanisms include: 

  • Viral vectors designed to ‘carry’ genetic inserts can be rejected by the immune system leading to inflammatory conditions.
  • Foreign proteins created by inserted genetic material can be attacked by the immune system leading to targeted immune destruction.
  • Insertional Mutagenesis: Gene therapies utilising integrating vectors (like retroviruses) can disrupt normal gene regulation, potentially leading to cancerous transformations or abnormal immune dysregulation.

As was the case with the Covid vaccine, gene therapy can lead to long term production of foreign proteins by a proportion of the body’s own cells which have been genetically transformed. As a result, a permanent state of autoimmune rejection can be created whereby the body is fighting itself, resulting in immune exhaustion, tissue inflammation and run on disease manifestation including cancers. 

Ten years ago the proximate death of a participant in a gene therapy trial such as Sam Neill would have led to the long term suspension of the trial pending an exhaustive investigation into the possible causes and risks. This is no longer the case. Very high levels of risk, including unassessed long term hazards to human health particular to highly mobile genetic sequences, no longer trigger pauses in the rapid growth of biotechnology experimentation.

Johnson fits into an erroneous view about life that is increasingly receiving wide publicity—the idea that the complex structure of our genome is the result of random events and is actually very inefficient, hampered by historical accidental pathways of evolution. According to this misguided belief system, which is shared by some leading researchers, biotechnologists should be able to redesign human physiology to work more simply and efficiently. Some articles published during the last couple of years predict that by the year 2036, transhuman gene therapy will be routine. This is pure fantasy. As we reported in our most recent article “The Long Read: There is already enough evidence to design a health policy that works“, our present knowledge of genetic function is very incomplete. Sober assessments published in the scientific literature such as “Gene Therapy in Rare Genetic Disorders: Current Progress and Future Perspectives admit to unsolved, stubborn problems with immune rejection which are indicative of the body’s own genetic intelligence working to protect its essential integrity from invasive gene therapy vectors.

In parallel with the development of experimental gene therapy techniques, there is a growing realisation that gene therapy can alter human psychology. This can affect an individual’s sense of self and identity, which may manifest as imposter syndrome or alienation. In other words, just as the immune system can attack transformed genetic structures and byproducts, so can conflicts arise within the self as a result of gene therapies, characterised by psychological impairment of function, emotion or intelligence.

In fact our DNA is part of a much wider system rooted in the unified level of natural law identified by theoretical physics which is recognised to have the self-referral qualities of human awareness. From this perspective, our fundamental physiological structure cannot be regarded as random or inefficient, it is the vehicle which supports the highly sophisticated and unique expression of consciousness. The physiological expression of the faculties of identity (ego), intellect (decision-making), mind (thinking) and the five senses (channels of perception) is not a random occurrence, as we discussed in our article “The Structure of Consciousness” it is the material expression of consciousness knowing itself.

Contemplate for a moment what has already been ventured and what is planned for the future in the field of biotechnology not forgetting the disastrous 30 million excess deaths during the pandemic documented by Our World in Data. Biotechnology researchers are busy planning and enacting experiments which will affect the whole world’s population without possibility of containment, recall, or remediation. Here in NZ as we lumber towards another election, we can ponder the lack of any clear understanding about the risks and dangers of biotechnology on the part of political parties who are currently planning to approve GE liberalisation and ramp up funding. This mimics a worldwide trend. It seems as if biotechnology experimentation at home and in the world at large is drifting towards disaster. If you have visited Niagara Falls you will be familiar with the syndrome, the current can grip unwary boats and gather pace in the race to the precipice. Immediate evasive action is required.

A year ago in our article “Two Roads Diverged in a Wood” we compared the lymphoma cancer rates in NZ (12.5 cases per 100,000, the highest in the world) and Bhutan (0.65 cases per 100,000, 19 times less than NZ). Bhutan has a policy of fully supporting organic agriculture with a goal of 100% organic production. In our latest article “The Long Read: There is already enough evidence to design a health policy that works” we reiterated the need to move on from health policies that are favouring promotion of costly high risk biotechnologies. Instead, there is abundant research which shows simple natural approaches to health like the promotion of organic agriculture, fresh diets, exercise and meditation can have very broad spectrum positive effects on national health and well being without adverse effects or significant expenditure. We need to learn from the last few years. Our challenge is to educate the population and the government.

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