Growing Dangers From Biotechnology Experimentation

We understand that the security services are charged with protecting a nation from internal conflict and foreign interference. You have to be fully alert to analyse information in order to detect and neutralise threats before they are launched. Any failure on the part of analysts can expose the nation to danger. Potential dangers come from many directions. 

In the modern context, biotechnologies pose unique threats. The global Covid pandemic contains lessons which need to be thoroughly understood and assessed. At this time, the extent of what went wrong can be analysed with the benefit of hindsight and published research.

Genetic technologies cannot be contained

Genetic sequences are highly mobile, they contain potent organising power which can initiate and control physiological processes in completely novel ways that can be dangerous for health. Genetic information is widely shared through a number of natural pathways—via air borne pathogens, gut processes, food chains, etc.

Genetic technologies are designed to bypass natural protective barriers

Our DNA operates within a highly regulated complex cellular network. This usually ensures that only processes beneficial to an organism are allowed to proceed. Gene editing and editing of intra cellular processes bypasses these protective mechanisms. There is the potential to initiate rogue self-sustaining chains of events. The merging of nanotechnologies with genetic technologies has enhanced this potential.

Biotechnology has successfully opposed any attempts at regulation

Biotech experimentation is running at fever pitch around the world. Many of these experiments are fraught with risk, such as the gain of function research that was taking place at Wuhan (and still is there and elsewhere). The biotech lobby has sought to manipulate public opinion and government attitudes. It has been successful at this because it has deliberately projected misleading narratives that appeal to a broad range of views. It characterises biotechnology as:

• Morally Right: because it is only beneficial to health
• Safe: because it is precise and highly tested 
• Evolutionary: because mutations drive evolutionary processes
• Economically Beneficial: because technology drives progress

A close look at pandemic outcomes reveals that none of these claims can be justified. Nor does the history of genetic research during the last 75 years since the discovery of DNA support these claims. Despite this, the deceptive justifications above are sufficiently persuasive to ensure that the biotechnology industry is by and large left to self-regulate its own actions.

The 30 million pandemic excess deaths estimated by Our World in Data should put paid to any suggestion that genetic engineering is either morally right or safe. Nor is it effective. mRNA vaccinations did not prevent transmission as they were hyped to do so. 

We deal with the questionable evolutionary claims in our Substack article “Human Evolution, Genetics, Physics and Consciousness—Part One“. The risks are multiplied by the melding of A.I. and biotechnology which allows for thousands of exotic experiments unknown to natural processes to be automated and rapidly implemented. Recently Mrinank Sharma, who led Anthropic‘s research safeguards team developing defences to A.I.-assisted bioterrorism, resigned, citing growing concern for world stability. Sharma said: “We appear to be approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences.” See our article “The A.I. and Biotech alliance and how it will affect New Zealand” to understand more.

The economic benefit is equally questionable. The economic downside of the pandemic is still with us. In fact, biotechnology implementation is generally not economically productive. The methods themselves are very costly (at two orders of magnitude greater than conventional pharmaceutical and surgical approaches) which puts an unsustainable strain on already stretched health service budgets. Gene therapy trials have typically had high rates of adverse effects, nor have they achieved high success rates. Their high cost ensures they are likely to reach few people. Moreover biotech commercial models require government approval and funding which uses rather than creates resources. Alternative preventive approaches to health are recognised for many disease types with high success rates which should be preferentially promoted.

In fact, there are a great many rogue operators spread throughout the biotechnology community prepared to ignore any rational assessment of risk. Including some defence services who are experimenting with biotechnology, not just in a defensive mode, but also for offensive purposes, flagrantly ignoring the inevitability of pathogen escape without the possibility of protection or containment.

Genetic technologies pose an existential threat to civilization

As we have extensively discussed at the HatchardReport.com and https://guyhatchardphd.substack.com/, cells contain memories which control actions. These memories are associated with genetic sequences. Therefore in addition to underpinning our health, cells contain the established patterns of our modern societies including the preferential styles of relationships, thinking, perception, decision-making, emotions, ethics and governance. Any programme of universal genetic intervention such as happened during the pandemic, both with an apparently engineered virus and an engineered vaccine, can and will have unforeseen consequences. See our article “Can biotechnology control human behaviour?” for more background. 

The biotechnology industry has become a powerful entity operating in the geopolitical space

It has become a tenet of regulatory environments that the safety or advisability of biotechnology cannot be questioned. For example the Royal Commission on Covid-19 in NZ wrote on 3rd February 2026 that it is not allowed to make any judgement about any of the following : 

• Particular clinical decisions made by clinicians or public health authorities during the pandemic. 
• How and when COVID-19 response measures were applied in individual cases. 
• The operation of the general regulatory and approval system for vaccines other than the COVID-19 vaccine. 
• The epidemiology of the COVID-19 virus.

Similar restrictions on questions of safety have been applied to regulatory and so-called investigative authorities reporting in countries around the world. These do not appear to be in the public interest. They stand in the way of understanding. Such prohibitions give excessive power to organisations and viewpoints which can be misapplied and abused.

Biotechnology theory and practice should have taken account of the wider landscape of scientific processes and standards. In fact, it has largely detached itself from the framework of more fundamental disciplines such as physics. This raises serious questions about the validity of some of its conclusions. See our article “The Long Read—Physics, Genetics and Consciousness” for a deeper understanding. Despite this, in the geopolitical space, some key operators with billion dollar resources, which dwarf the budgets of many states, are pushing research agendas fraught with risk that lie outside of any balanced scientific assessment of safety. 

The effects of biotechnology interventions persist for years and cannot be recalled

We have begun a time when the five year risks of mRNA vaccination are becoming apparent. Rates of excess and sudden deaths are still elevated in nations which reached high vaccination coverage.  A study published in February entitled “Unprecedented Persistence of Vaccine mRNA, Plasmid DNA, Spike Protein, and Genomic Dysregulation Over 3.5 Years Post-COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination” records the case of a 55 year old male whose physiology is still producing Covid Spike protein three and a half years after his last vaccination which is drastically affecting his health. This is not an isolated case. In another example, a press release provides links to papers reporting the structure of rubbery white clots linked to Covid vaccination which can threaten cardiovascular health over long periods. Evidence is mounting that genetic technologies employed during the pandemic increased susceptibility to cancer among working age people. See our article  “Red Flag: 2023 NZ Cancer Data Released by Health NZ—A Record” for an overview. 

Biotechnology research is a highly technical area. Very few politicians or even intelligence analysts will have sufficient scientific skills to grasp the take home conclusions of the latest research from an independent standpoint. Our letter today aims to highlight fundamental issues which your analysts may have missed or glossed over. Biotechnology alters the architecture of human life, therefore it will have devastating and unanticipated consequences. Intelligence services can inform governments of the risks. It can identify projects which are increasing that risk still further. It can expose unscientific claims based on PR designed to influence central government funding and legislative decisions. 

Our government hopes to pass the Gene Technology Bill which contains provisions designed to reduce safeguards. This may expose us to predatory foreign operators wishing to carry out risky experiments in a closed island environment. The Bill fails to take account of the implications of known outcomes of the Covid pandemic and the risks we have outlined above. Intelligence services have eyes on the future, they can avert the danger that has not yet fully materialised but is already close upon us.

Yours sincerely 

Guy Hatchard PhD

Guy Hatchard PhD Biography

Guy Hatchard is the creator and principal contributor to the Hatchard Report. He has been a life-long advocate of food safety. He was formerly Director of Natural Products at Genetic ID, a global food safety testing and certification company now known as FoodChain ID. Genetic ID developed techniques to test for the presence of genetically modified organisms in food and provided services to bulk food trading companies like ADM, Cargill, and many others in order to facilitate access to export markets and increase consumer trust. He has presented his findings to governments and industry leaders around the world. He appeared before the NZ Royal Commission on Genetic Modification and has been a key figure in discussions since 2017 which eventually led to the repeal of the Natural Products Bill. He has written a book Your DNA Diet which is available from Amazon.

He received his BSc Hons. from the University of Sussex, UK, in Logic and Theoretical Physics with a special focus on the scientific method applied across disciplines. His MA thesis at Maharishi International University (MIU), Iowa, analysed outcomes of mastery learning in Mathematics. His PhD thesis in Psychology at MIU investigated the impact of human factors on national competitive advantage using time series analysis. Maharishi International University (MIU) is fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) which is recognised by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). It incorporates principles of consciousness-based education (CBE). CBE includes traditional subjects while also cultivating the student’s potential from within. He has published papers in peer reviewed journals and was the keynote speaker at the 1996 annual conference of the British Psychological Society on Crime.

2019 heralded the start of a new era, but not perhaps the new age that many had hoped for.

The advent of mass biotechnology has signalled a complete break with the past, not just the immediate past but virtually the whole of human history. Biotechnology cuts across every prior human relationship, cultural norm, political system, physiological mechanism and scientific concept. It does so by irrevocably altering the vehicle of human existence—the cell. This article argues that editing the structure and functions of the human cell is a step that has only one possible outcome—devolution. In other words: decay, deterioration, despair and disease. The solution lies in the understanding of consciousness itself.

An article today in the Washington Post entitled “The next frontier in weight-loss drugs: one-time gene therapy” illustrates the forces at work. The adverse effects of weight loss drugs like Ozempic causes many to discontinue their use only to find all of those pounds come back along with a host of other problems. Weight loss drugs involve injecting or ingesting a small quantity of a drug known as GLP-1. A small biotech company called Fractyl Health has developed a gene therapy which re-educates cells in the body to produce GLP-1. 

The article reports a frightening risk associated with the procedure which is about to be administered in clinical trials. Giles Yeo, a professor at the University of Cambridge who studies the genetics of obesity, said of people who experience nausea and vomiting after taking GLP-1 medications: “You can stop taking drugs, but if you genetically modify someone and they can’t stand it, they’re screwed”. The effects of gene therapy can’t be recalled, they’re permanent. 

There is a definite sinister overtone to a project that plans to test a risky gene therapy procedure, whose effects can’t be recalled, on patients with diabetes. You have to ask why this is being approved by regulators when dietary and exercise routines are known to lead to high rates of successful outcomes without side effects? If Boeing were manufacturing aircraft with a high risk of failure that couldn’t be repaired, would it be a sensible option? Yet the biotechnology industry is almost daily proposing and implementing risky experimental procedures on human guinea pigs.

The GLP-1 gene project is just one of tens of thousands of biotech dreams being floated around the world with approval and funding from governments. Time and again safety concerns are ignored or down played The federal Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) facility in the US has just admitted to a leak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) through a breach of supposedly safe lab protocols.  The US Department of Health and Human Services brushed off the accidental exposure as ‘contained’, but a US watch dog organisation pointed out:

“CCHF is a foreign virus that causes massive bleeding, multi-organ failure and has a kill rate as high as 40 percent,” along with a disturbing photo of a monkey subjected to the virus at RML.

Why has the deadly CCHF pathogen even been imported into the US? Who is this serving? Why is there no critical thinking about this? If the Gene Technology Bill is passed, wannabe biotech start ups could be lining up to trial such exotic experiments here in New Zealand.

During the pandemic, biotech DNA dreamers succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They were allowed to experiment on the world’s population with gene bending vaccines that as it turned out didn’t prevent COVID-19 infection, had a high rate of adverse effects including proximate death and continued to function in human cells for years afterwards. The actual extent of the harm and any possibility of cure is still not known five years after their initial use. As recently revealed by The Tribute web series made in New Zealand, those severely affected are being quietly ignored and cancelled to this day, while the risks are still being downplayed in favour of impossible biotech dreams and improbable promises of health. 

How was the possibility of terrifying outcomes missed?

Biotechnology and science in general have misrepresented and obfuscated the process of human evolution. Darwinian evolution had been conceived as an entirely material process occurring over immensely long periods of time. Following the discovery of DNA, evolution was reimagined as the result of random genetic mutations, some of which conferred an evolutionary advantage in the face of environmental challenges, thus ensuring the survival of the fittest. Accordingly, the biotech lobby believes that it is possible to speed up the evolutionary process through the application of gene therapy. In fact, gene therapy increases the risk of adverse mutations.

As with all so-called rationalist science, biotechnology has made every effort to exclude discussion of consciousness or simply dismiss its relevance as a mere epiphenomenon or byproduct of brain chemistry. Yet it is our everyday experience that all the key responses to environmental challenges are the result of decisions taken by individuals, animals or organisms. If there are bananas in Germany, it is because someone decided to bring them to Germany. Decision making is a conscious process we are all very familiar with, but not one that biotechnologists want to acknowledge.

Imagine for a moment a skilled tradesman. He needs a full set of tools. If his tools are not sharp and well adjusted, or they are inferior knock offs, or some are mislaid, his performance as an artisan will be impaired. No matter how knowledgeable or skilled, he will not be able to actualise his full potential. A tradesman and his tools are part of an integrated system, each needs the other to fully function, but when push comes to shove it is the ability of the tradesman that is primary, his tools are secondary. Taking this analogy one step further, remember that the tools themselves were created by human intelligence.

Consciousness and matter are incredibly integrated in human physiology to the degree that a tiny pin prick is instantly registered in awareness, whilst any movement in thought processes has its biochemical counterpart. The mind-body system forms a unified whole. This unity is underpinned by genetic identity. Every cell contains an identical DNA signature unique to that individual. The whole thrust of immunity is to preserve the genetic identity and function of cells. It is estimated that more than 70,000 DNA repairs are completed in each cell every 24 hours and we have around 37 trillion cells.

The mind-body system that we enjoy is an expression of the harmony of the Cosmos. We live in synchrony with the laws of nature described by physics, chemistry, etc which are true for all times and places big and small. As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. Procedures of genetic engineering create a crack in that harmony. A crack that can be the precursor to a landslide.

If the pathways of genetic expression and function of billions of cells are edited as happens with mRNA vaccines or the actual structure of DNA is edited as happens in the course of gene therapy, it is known that there will be mutagenic consequences capable of producing off target effects. What is perhaps little known or understood is that these effects are inevitably going to instantly influence the expression of consciousness and in turn the collective expression of consciousness in society and civilisation at large.

The world is changing before our eyes

Look around at the world today, there are words that spring to mind—inexplicable, inexcusable, instability or madness. These words are applicable to the prejudices and strange actions of individuals and groups we see reported everywhere, as much as they are to the actions of government leaders and agencies. The ramifications for geopolitics are there for all to see in the daily news. The world has profoundly changed, it appears to have lost its anchor in truth and sanity.

The search for a solution to global instability and ill health must include a strategy to develop consciousness. Our physiology contains a set of tools, our consciousness can learn how to use those tools to full advantage. In my book Your DNA Diet I elaborate how that can happen and the research that shows a great leap forward in society is possible, rather than the giant step backward being offered to New Zealand by the Gene Technology Bill. 

Gain of function research ramps up with the support of the US military

Newly published research papers demonstrate that gain of function research designed to investigate the effects of deadly pathogens is still continuing. In the course of research, live mice are being exposed to deadly doses of lab-built recombinant synthetic H5N1 viruses with codon optimisation which boosts expression in human cells and cleavage site enhancement linked to viral virulence. Lethal doses of synthetic viral material containing artificial DNA sequences are being forced into animals using lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and electrical pulses. The aim of the research is to develop replicon mRNA vaccines and treatment strategies, but alarmingly, the work is being partially funded by the US defense establishment and there are ties to multinational pharmaceutical companies.

A paper published on 13 January 2026 in Nature Communications is entitled “Intranasal replicon vaccine establishes mucosal immunity and protects against H5N1 and H7N9 influenza“. It reports the development of a self-replicating mRNA vaccine targeted at H5N1 and H7N9 viruses—so called avian or bird flu viruses. The vaccine is administered with an intra nasal spray which is designed to attach itself to the nasal mucosa via a nanostructured lipid carrier and then replicate itself like a virus in the human body. The research was funded by the Department of Defense of the US government. One of the stated aims of the research is to develop proof of concept for an mRNA vaccine delivery system which will over come vaccine hesitancy and reach whole populations rapidly.

In a parallel development, an international team of researchers from USA, Canada and the EU have used so-called gain of function methods to design, engineer, and test synthetic versions of the H5N1 bird flu virus’s hemagglutinin protein—one of the key components that allows the virus to infect cells. Their results are reported in a Nature paper entitled “Electroporation and LNP-mediated delivery of plasmid DNA-encoded H5N1 influenza virus hemagglutinin support protection against highly pathogenic avian influenza” In summary, the paper reports researchers have produced synthetic versions of a dangerous flu component and injected them into mice. They then exposed the animals to very deadly strains of the H5N1 virus to see how well their synthetic constructs functioned. Their research was funded by a US federal vaccine-development initiative said to be designed to prepare for future influenza outbreaks using rapidly adaptable genetic platforms. 

Scientists are creating novel genetic viral pathogenic sequences and then saying we need to be protected from them. In other words, they are posing as saviours when they are the ultimate sinners.

The senior scientist involved, David B. Weiner, disclosed paid relationships with Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Inovio, Flagship, and other commercial biotech/pharmaceutical companies.

These reports demonstrate how the type of dangerous research which likely created Covid-19 is still being conducted in labs around the world. If New Zealand were to pass the Gene Technology Bill it is likely that our labs will be co-opted by the lure of lucrative funding to participate in such collaborative research projects, despite the fact that the FBI, CIA, MI6, BND and other international intelligence organisations have confirmed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of lab-engineered pathogen manipulation.

Make your feelings known. Our voice is more powerful than we realise. Do not get distracted by the injustices of the past to the extent of ignoring the very real threats that are being developed around us. We need a better future than the one that is currently being planned, created and curated for us. 

The proliferation of genetic technologies is not containable.

Genetic sequences are globally mobile, they can integrate with host organisms and spread without any practical possibility of limiting their extent. The approval of self replicating mRNA vaccines, the replacement of common food ingredients and processing aids with genetically modified types and the thousands of insecure biolabs doing exotic gene research, including on deadly pathogens, without any realistic regulatory restraint, means that novel disease types and health conditions affecting whole populations are inevitable. This article examines what might happen and what to do to protect oneself from the looming dangers. 

In the face of growing global health crises, there seems to be a dearth of wise leaders. 70 years ago Rachel Carson began researching the environmental harm being caused by synthetic pesticides, many of which emerged from research into chemical warfare during the world wars. Her work culminated in the publication of a book Silent Spring, now recognised as one of the most influential books of the 20th century, in which she accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting the industry’s marketing claims without asking questions. Her work swayed public opinion and led to a ban on the agricultural use of DDT and the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Silent Spring initiated a culture of alarm about the adverse health effects of pesticides and environmental chemicals, but the lessons of history fade especially among the youth who have grown up in a highly advertised processed food environment. Over the ensuing decades in the wider population outside of the organic movement, there has been a shift in direction towards a health culture which characterises the physiology as generally robust with a capacity to absorb the shocks of chemical pollution as long as it has the support of pharmaceuticals, stimulants and drugs. 

Medical data increasingly points in another direction. Over decades there have been massive increases in the incidence of illness and chronic disease including cancer (up 40% since 2000), heart disease (up 25% since 2000), neurological illness (for example Parkinson’s up 80% since 2000), autoimmune conditions (up 300% since 2000) and mental illness (up 75% among young adults since 2000). Despite this, advances in medicine, surgery, sanitation, agriculture, economy, nutrition and housing somehow ensured that the average lifespan slowly crept up, reaching a plateau in the second decade of the 21st century.

Along with the plateau in lifespan, there is a parallel trend that should give cause for grave concern. A study published by the US CDC in 2025 is entitled “Trends in Multiple Chronic Conditions Among US Adults, By Life Stage, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2023“. It found that 76% of US adults (190 million people) reported having one or more chronic health conditions in 2023. Most concerning, the CDC study found that prevalence of chronic disease among young adults (aged 18 to 34) accelerated significantly from 22% to 27% for 1 or more conditions between 2013 and 2020 and from 53% to 60% among those aged 35 to 64 years. Indicating that the burden of chronic illness is shifting to younger age groups. An alarming trend that even extends to cancer incidence.

Today we are facing not a silent spring but a great flood.

The CDC defines chronic diseases as conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both. Unlike some acute infectious illnesses, they are often incurable but can be managed like diabetes, heart disease or arthritis. In addition to financial costs, increased death, and disability, studies show the burden of chronic conditions includes decreased quality of life, increased health care utilisation, lost productivity in the workforce, and loss of functioning in daily life.

As studies show, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a sea change in health conditions caused by a combination of COVID-19 infections, treatments and vaccines. The pandemic years underlined the long term debilitating effects of chronic illness on health and immunity. Multiple studies show comorbidities were the strongest indicators of poor COVID-19 outcomes. The pandemic led to an immediate surge in excess deaths and a long tail of ill health. This highlights the increasing vulnerability of the general population and a decline in immunity and vitality.

Many commentators and studies have confirmed that the increasing consumption of ultra processed foods and the use of synthetic ingredients is associated with the growth of chronic health conditions. In other words, the burden of food toxicity has been increasing for decades. Gradually a tipping point has been reached allowing the pandemic to push matters over the edge. How did this happen?

Genetic toxins have novel adverse effects 

Understanding the effect of COVID-19 vaccines on general immunity is crucial. COVID-19 vaccines crossed a barrier, they penetrated the cell membrane. They were designed to rearrange and redirect immune functioning. For decades our digestive and immune systems have been endeavouring to protect us from the worst effects of the increasing levels of toxins present in our environment and food sources. Covid vaccines upset the delicate balance of the immune system. In tandem weight loss drugs are threatening to do the same to the protective mechanisms inherent in our digestive system.

With the popular focus on DNA as the source of life, it is easy to forget that life begins not with a DNA molecule but with a whole cell. As developmental stages proceed, every cell in an organism contains identical DNA. Cells are networked together based on this genetic identity. As we have previously discussed, there are five fundamentals of progress evident in the physiology: Stability, Adaptability, Integration, Purification and Growth, The renewal (growth) and health of an organism depends on the network property of cells (integration), immunity (purification), digestion (adaptability) and homeostasis (stability). These five qualities of progress need to be balanced among themselves. The accumulation of toxins threatens to overthrow this balance. The immune system is designed to eliminate pathogens and neutralise toxins in order to restore balance. Therefore any interference with the internal structure and function of cells as happens with mRNA and other types of DNA vaccines affects immunity and renders our physiology more vulnerable to the effects of toxins.

To understand how crucial the network property of cells is, consider for a moment how each and every lego brick has to be made to very fine exact tolerances in order to ensure the stability of creative building projects. It is not possible to intermix other play brick types with lego even if they look similar. They are incompatible, just as all transplanted organs containing DNA with very slight differences are rejected by the physiology unless the transplant patient takes immunosuppressant drugs for life. 

Genetic identity is the key to understanding immunity. Genetic identity mirrors the unified field of the cosmos as revealed by physics and the grand unity of universal consciousness.

Biotechnology is fundamentally altering the cycles of cause and effect in our physiology. The way the immune system works has been changed, inevitably health outcomes will now be different. Not as before. The door to increased toxicity and immune exhaustion is being opened. The proliferation of novel man-made genetic sequences is threatening to facilitate the emergence of entirely novel diseases and disease trends which, as we saw with the effects of COVID-19 infection and COVID-19 vaccines, may be difficult to treat and resistant to modern medicine. As unsafe research into genetics accelerates, an unfavourable period for health can rapidly develop. There is little time left to prepare.

What can we do to protect our health going forward?

Experts in the ancient health science of Ayurveda (literally the science of long life) warn that our modern lifestyles and foods are leading to the build up of stronger toxicity and the increasing reactive nature of these novel toxins. Ayurveda describes a push back that can develop from natural law under such circumstances—a sudden catastrophic reaction like putting a red hot iron in cold water. Many of you will recall reading about key experiences of catastrophic adverse effects following COVID-19 vaccination including sudden onset of neurological and other conditions which defied conventional treatments. If biotechnology experimentation continues unchecked, we are going to see more of that on a wider scale and probably very soon.

Ayurvedic experts are recommending an immediate vigorous strengthening of health and lifestyle over the next 6-12 months for everyone. Otherwise 2027 could be characterised by much higher incidence of ill health. Urgent Ayurvedic recommendations include:

• Reduction in consumption of food toxins by eating a natural fresh diet rather than processed foods. Virtually all conventional foods test positive for pesticides, herbicides and artificial fertilisers. Conventional raised meats and dairy routinely contain residues of medicines, antibiotics, growth hormones, GM feeds, agricultural chemicals like glyphosate, etc, Organic meats and foods have very significantly lower levels of agricultural toxins and GM residues.
• Read food labels carefully and find out more about any ingredients you know little about, including their researched health effects. Be alert to synthetic substitutions. These are often spelled differently or have the misleading adjective ‘natural’ added to their name. It only takes a moment to ask Google about odd sounding ingredients and processes.
• Undertake a comprehensive review of your fridge and pantry. What are you actually eating? What can you substitute or change to eat more fresh and healthy? Try for whole foods entailing less processing.
• Regularly drink warm/hot water during the day (not fluoridated tap water). Take a thermos flask to work
• Eat seasonally appropriate freshly prepared or cooked foods. Lighter diet in summer, more nourishing in winter. Be especially careful with your dietary routine at the change of seasons.
• Have one day a week with a lighter diet containing more liquid elements to give the digestive system a rest.
• Avoid known toxins like alcohol, smoking, vaping, artificial sweeteners, etc
• Eat more balanced meals. Ayurveda recommends the six tastes be a part of each meal: sweet (eg grains), sour (eg lemon, yogurt), salt, spicy (eg pepper, cumin, ginger, turmeric, etc), bitter (eg greens) and astringent (eg beans and dhals.). A recent article in the UK Times headlined “Why we should eat beans every day — and which are the healthiest“. Do some research and consider experimenting to broaden your palate. 
• Toxins do not just come from food. Cities have become sources of intense pollution from car exhaust, electromagnetic radiation, off gassing from housing and construction materials, and intense collective stress. Even home gardens in cities test positive for high levels of toxins. Spend more time outdoors.
• Consider taking up yoga practice, meditation, breathing exercises, walking and other forms of regular exercise. 
• Ayurveda recommends a positive approach to mental health. This means err on the side of being easy and not being hard on yourself. Steer clear of negative company and hyper criticism. Be strong in yourself and stick to the truth. Take the time to enjoy and invest time in knowledge and skills. Re-evaluate habits, addictive behaviours and interests.
• If you are on multiple medications (known as polypharmacy) consider discussing with your doctor how some of these can be reduced safely (known as deprescribing). Around 20% of 40-79 year old Americans take five or more medications. Polypharmacy can lead to a build up of adverse side effects. In fact, medical misadventure including polypharmacy has become the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. 

As you are probably fully aware, in addition to increased pollution of food sources and the environment, the world around us is changing rapidly. There has been a polarisation and hardening of attitudes at precisely the time the world needs more unity. There is no magic bullet. To meet these challenges we need to manage our personal lives to create more harmony with Nature. Knowledge has organising power, forewarned is forearmed. This is not a time to give up. No one else is going to take care of our life and health for us. In fact, governments appear determined on a destructive path of biotechnology experimentation on their populations.  We have to make changes to protect ourselves. Be awake to what is useful and stay away from that which is harmful.

Technological power holds a perennial fascination for leaders of every persuasion.

The supposed ability to alter the genes of whole populations is the ultimate dream of power. In this mad dream, leaders will no longer have to put up with the deficiencies of employees or citizens, who might fall sick, fail in their appointed tasks or exercise their free will. Instead you can aspire to create an army of long lived invincible supermen who will keep their nose to the grindstone, obey without question like the unsullied army of Daenerys Targaryen whilst no longer needing to burden the health system. 

Governments are keeping faith with this dream. They believe. The biotech failures and catastrophes of the pandemic have taught them no lessons. So, with a firm will to power, governments all over the world including ours are deregulating biotechnology experimentation in the hope that some wannabe Frankenstein or Rasputin will fulfil their wildest dreams. 

The truth of biotechnology is rather different from the dream

If you are wondering whether to trust government assurances of safety if the NZ Gene Technology Bill gets the go ahead, you might take a look at the history of biolab security. A paper accepted for publication by the Cambridge Press journal Epidemiology & Infection last week entitled “Epidemiological indicators of accidental laboratory-origin outbreaks” has identified and listed 70 historical cases of laboratory-associated leaks that led to disease outbreaks affecting the wider public. The paper examines 7 of these in great detail analysing the data and evidence trail:

• 1955 Polio vaccine incident in USA
• 1977 H1N1 influenza outbreak in China and the Soviet Union
• 1979 Anthrax release in the Soviet Union
• 1995 Equine Encephalitis epidemics in Venezuela and Colombia
• 2003-4 Sars-Cov-1 escapes from Singapore, Taiwan and China
• 2007 Foot and Mouth virus outbreak in the UK
• 2019 Brucella outbreak in China

Thematic analysis of the lines of evidence revealed seven key insights:

• Unusual strain characteristics, 
• Peculiar clinical manifestations or affected demographics, 
• Unusual geographical features, 
• Atypical epidemiological patterns, 
• Delayed government action and communication to the public, 
• Misinformation and disinformation spread to the public, 
• Biosafety concerns and/or incidents predating the event.

The paper concludes that the Covid-19 virus outbreak shares a majority of the characteristics present in earlier lab leak incidents. This points to the inevitable occurrence of accidental escapes of novel GE pathogens from biolaboratories in the future which will continue to cause disease outbreaks in the community, posing significant risks to the general public, animal populations, and the environment.

GE virus escapes in Spain

The latest reported lab escape incident occurred during November 2025 in Spain. The highly pathogenic African swine fever virus (ASFV) escaped from a lab that was injecting a genetically modified virus into a wild boar to test the efficacy of a vaccine (sound familiar?). The outbreak is affecting pork production in the Catalonia region where the experiment was being conducted. The first dead boar was found within 150 metres of the lab and the carcass tested positive for a genetically modified strain not found in the wild.

Perhaps not surprisingly in the rapidly expanding and wildly adventurous biotech world, there are a total of five labs in the small Catalonia region alone conducting exotic biotechnology experiments on ASFV. Let that sink in for a moment—five labs. You cannot separate the risks of Covid and the Covid vaccines from the dangers of biotechnology experimentation. 

The Catalonia labs operate under a BSL-3 safety protocol, the second strictest classification, but still the GE virus leaked out into the environment. The paper published last week points to a worrying conclusion—such leaks are not highly unusual, they appear to be routine. As we know “to err is human”. Mistakes, even in the highest biosecurity environments, are inevitable.

If the Gene Technology Bill passes, the brakes will come off and risky experiments will be permitted and then proliferate in laboratories located in densely populated urban areas of NZ, raising the level of risk to the public. The escape in Catalonia is also instructive as to what can and probably almost inevitably will happen here in NZ to affect our main export markets which rely heavily on animal health. As we know from the pandemic years, what seemed like a clever idea at the time soon turns out to be a monumental disaster. As we all worry over the daily violence in the Middle East and Ukraine, we should not forget that the 30 million Covid excess deaths around the globe documented by One World in Data which dwarf recent war casualty figures. The more so because, as we have reported, the long term health outcomes are still surfacing.

Approval of self-replicating vaccines

It is in this context that we have to regard the recent EU and UK approval of a self-replicating mRNA Covid vaccine known as Kostaive for people over 18 years with deep distrust and suspicion. The current generation of Covid vaccines have essentially failed to be either effective or safe. The so-called replicon Kostaive vaccine adds another novel technology on top of the mRNA process. This involves the ability to encode viral replicase that actually repurposes the cells of vaccine recipients to host a continuous process of vaccine production. In effect, the vaccine is empowered to mimic the self-replicating, self-spreading properties of a virus. This process is fraught with risk. Not the least of these is the possibility of person to person vaccine transfer which we first discussed in our October 2024 article “Self-Replicating Vaccines and the Cloud of Unknowing“

During the clinical trials for Kostaive reported in 2024 in Nature Communications under the title “Safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of the self-amplifying mRNA ARCT-154 COVID-19 vaccine: pooled phase 1, 2, 3a and 3b randomized, controlled trials“, 90% of injected participants experienced adverse events, with 75% reporting systemic reactions and 15% requiring medical attention after the first dose. The potential to generate auto-immune conditions has also been widely discussed. Do you think this is acceptable? Apparently it is to medical bureaucrats. In the absence of long term trial results, following approval of Kostaive, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced it will be monitoring adverse effects through its Yellow Card system which like our CARM system so evidently failed during the Covid pandemic. 

Governments need to gain a realistic perspective on the risks of biotechnology experimentation. 

It is the reckless pursuit of biotechnology applications and government approvals, even after trial results have raised red flags, that is the current modus operandi of biotech and pharmaceutical research companies. They need the government funds and speculative investment that follows approvals in order to survive and turn a profit. Concern for public health and safety has taken a back seat. This is the prospect that awaits the NZ public if the Gene Technology Bill goes ahead.

It is not too far of a stretch to suggest that billions of years of evolutionary history is being put at risk. No one really understands what it is about our human genetics that sets us apart from animals. Why can we exercise free will yet animals are firmly in the grip of natural instinctive behaviours. Humans share about 60% of their DNA with a banana, 90% with a dog and 98% with a chimpanzee. This reflects shared ancestry and co-evolutionary processes, but the network of human cells has a unique capability—the capacity for self-referral reflection, the hallmark of higher consciousness. How the DNA and cellular functions of humans are structured to achieve this is not understood. Wholesale gene editing automated by AI, novel vaccines capable of taking control of little understood internal cellular processes, and mobile genetic sequences that can reproduce are dangerous forays into the highly networked worlds of physiology, brain chemistry and human society that underpin our physical and mental health and civilisation as we know it. The power to interfere with evolution is not a blessing, it is a curse.