No More Glyphosate NZ is an independent, community-funded project focused on transparency around glyphosate use, residues, and regulation in New Zealand. We investigate how pesticides, food production, and policy decisions affect public health and consumer clarity — so New Zealanders can make informed choices in a system that often hides the detail.
An Auckland family’s concerns about herbicide spraying near their child’s school have raised broader questions about glyphosate use, parent notification, and transparency around chemical spraying in New Zealand schools.
Why did the gluten-free Weet-Bix sample return the highest glyphosate result in our independent testing? This article explores Australian sorghum, differing agricultural practices, trans-Tasman food regulations, and the growing gap between health branding and chemical transparency.
No More Glyphosate NZ has published an open letter to Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company following independent glyphosate residue testing of selected Weet-Bix products. The letter questions whether legal compliance alone is enough for foods marketed around wholegrain health, wellbeing, and trust.
Terms like NOAEL, ADI, and “safe exposure limits” appear constantly in discussions about pesticides, food residues, and environmental health. But what do these regulatory concepts actually mean — and what are their limitations? This article explores how NOAELs are established, why study design matters, and why evolving science is raising new questions about long-term chemical exposure and safety assessment.
As resistant weeds spread across modern agriculture, farming systems are increasingly relying on combinations of herbicides rather than single-chemical approaches. A new study examining glyphosate alongside dicamba and 2,4-D raises broader questions about mixture toxicology, gut health, chronic low-dose exposure, and whether current safety testing models fully reflect real-world agricultural exposure patterns.
Herbicide resistance may be more than a weed-control problem. This series explores monocultures, biological adaptation, technological escalation, and the growing tension between efficiency and resilience in modern farming systems.
Herbicide resistance is often framed as an agricultural problem. But what if it reflects a much larger pattern? From antibiotics to fungicides and pesticides, modern systems repeatedly face the same challenge: biology adapts. This article explores the growing tension between human control systems, chemical dependence, and long-term resilience.
Modern agriculture increasingly rewards simplification, efficiency, and scale. But could highly simplified farming systems also become more vulnerable over time? This article explores crop rotation, monocultures, herbicide resistance, and the growing tension between efficiency and long-term resilience in modern farming.
Herbicide resistance is usually discussed inside crop paddocks. But what if some of the strongest resistance pressures are developing outside them — along fence lines, roadsides, drains, rail corridors, and other repeatedly sprayed non-crop areas?
Precision agriculture promises smarter, more sustainable farming through AI-guided spraying, drones, and precision targeting. But is modern agriculture becoming less chemically dependent — or simply more efficient at maintaining it?
A new 2025 study suggests glyphosate and urea fertilizers may interact in ways that alter soil nitrogen cycling, microbial communities, and nitrogen availability. Could modern farming systems be creating hidden long-term soil challenges beneath the surface?
Independent laboratory testing of six Weet-Bix-style breakfast cereal products found four below the laboratory reporting limit, while two Australian-made Sanitarium products returned detectable glyphosate residues — including one result of 3.9 mg/kg.
