Think of New Zealanders as SHAREHOLDERS In This Country, Luxon, NOT As Your Employees

When did Luxon ask US, the people of New Zealand, how WE felt about having Frankenfoods and other GMO products unleashed upon us?

Or do the Big Chem lobbyists dictate what we plant, buy and eat in New Zealand now?

Luxon doesn’t understand that you don’t run a country like you run a corporation . . . where you simply make decisions and communicate them afterwards to your employees. The governmental version of that would be a dictatorship. Which seems to actually be his modus operandi.

But the fact is, Mr Luxon, in a democracy, the citizens of the country are its shareholders . . . and you ASK US OUR OPINION FIRST.  Or, at least, on major issues like this - that affect our health and that of future generations, that's what you SHOULD be doing.

And if you HAD asked us our opinion, ON AN IMPORTANT ISSUE LIKE THIS, you would have very promptly learned that the vast majority of New Zealanders are HORRIFIED by what you’ve just announced down upon us, from on high.

How do I know?

Because of the 216 comments that popped up, most of them before you had even finished your white lab-coated media conference as aired on the New Zealand Herald’s YouTube website, 214 were overtly against (with many utterly horrified by) the whole concept (that they clearly considered a shock announcement from out of the blue).

Read Them and Weep . . .

My understanding (pending any further investigation of the matter) is that comments under a YouTube video are copyrighted . . . otherwise, I would have reproduced some of the absolute doozies here.

But if there is any small part of Luxon’s modus operandi that compels him to take an ounce of notice of what New Zealanders think and want on any given issue, this surely is one of those issues. And I can point to no more of a real-time, unbridled, unambiguous window into what “We the People” of New Zealand think about his latest, non-consultative move (that he has taken on behalf of all New Zealanders, whether we like it or not, and most clearly DO NOT), than these indignant / horrified / despondent / despairing comments.

Again, I implore anyone who wants to know what the vast majority of New Zealanders think Luxon and Collins should do with their gene tech and GMO foods and other associated products to be unleashed upon us, to read the comments under this New Zealand Heraldvideo on YouTube of our two white-coated politicians speaking from the lab environment set up neatly for them by the industry's lobbyists: