That's TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!

thought Not in NZ...f***ing hell.

And it does not always have to be labelled, many items such as sugar, cooking oil and other processed foods do not have to admit they have GM products in them. That is OZ, I dont know about NZ.

Go to Coles or woolworth and buy the purple labelled milk with pictures of very happy small children ( all that fish I guess )

Take glass, pour milk, give to child wait for reaction, OMG it tastes like a MULLET MILKSHAKE.

Calmly remove glass, accuse child of gross over reacting, drink some yourself, OMG MLLET MILKSHAKE.

Great product if you ever encounter friends or relatives children you hate

You are joking arent you... Please say you are!!

The kids used to eat Rice Kirspies in the UK but I can't find them here. Do you think I should buy them at the UK shop?

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)

GM food products on sale in Australia and New Zealand - either as a whole food or as an ingredient in a processed food - must have their GM status identified if introduced genetic material or protein is present in the final food. This identification will appear on the packaging label or near the food if it is unpackaged.

So, a typical ingredients list for a food containing a GM ingredient could be:
Ingredients: wheat flour, water added, yeast, soya flour (genetically modified), vegetable oil, sugar, emulsifiers (471, 472E), preservative (282), enzyme amylase.

There are, however, some exceptions.

Products that do not need to be labelled include:

• highly refined food, such as sugar or cottonseed oil, where the refining process removes any GM material
• processing aids and food additives, where there is no GM material present in the final food
• flavours which are present in an amount less than 0.1 per cent (1 in 1000 parts) in the final food
• food prepared in restaurants or takeaways shops.

A food may also contain up to one per cent of unintended GM product

Not correct.
http://www.ferret.com.au/c/Tetra-PAK...y-milk-n688050

Well, well. So the UK dairies do put fish oil in their milk. You learn something new every day. And that's from 2005, I see.

Tastes like ordinary milk, too. Always a bonus.

I was recently reading a book by an Australian nutritionist and although I can't be certain I think GM food is allowed. We've not had soya yoghurt since leaving the UK. I really don't trust food here though.

I can get pate at every supermarket I shop at ie IGA, Woolies, Coles, Franklins. I guess it depends where you live, I'm in Sydney. If your local supermarket doesn't stock it, why not ask the manager if they will stock some. Often they will do that.

IMO the one organic thing worth paying extra for is milk. I only use organic or goats milk where the goats haven't had any hormones given to them.

My little girl started to show signs of puberty at age 5 and I became suspicious of the hormones in the milk we drank. As soon as we switched to organic milk the signs of puberty went away, never to return! It actually really scared me to think that an everyday foodstuff could have this effect.

I have since read up on the whole thing and apparently what happened with us is not at all uncommon.

Ha ha, I see what that reads like now, oh dear. I suspect all the signs of puberty are soon to return actually, along with the slamming doors and strops, but at least now DD is at an appropriate age

That's how I saw it.