Hollywood icon Mel Gibson has recorded a direct message to the people of New Zealand as Parliament considers the biggest rewrite of the country’s gene technology and environmental laws in nearly 30 years.
The Braveheart director and President Trump’s Special Ambassador to Hollywood is not mincing words about the stakes.
In a video message shared by GE Honesty now circulating among Kiwi farmers, organic producers, and medical-freedom activists, Gibson tells New Zealanders their Parliament is moving on legislation that would reshape how genetic modification, gene editing, and related biotech are regulated, including what can enter farms, animals, and the food supply.
Gibson names the Gene Technology Bill plus companion changes to the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act and the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act.
Those changes, he says, would replace the existing framework, create a new regulator, introduce “risk-based approvals,” and exempt certain technologies labeled low-risk.
Mel Gibson:
“Hello, New Zealand. Your Parliament is considering some of the biggest changes to your country’s biotech and environmental laws in nearly 30 years. The GeneTech Bill, along with proposed changes to the HSNO and the ACVM Acts, would completely reshape how gene tech is regulated.“The changes would replace the current GE framework, create a new GE regulator, and introduce risk-based approvals and exempt some tech that’s considered low-risk.
“Supporters believe these reforms could help advance science, medicine, and agriculture, but critics warn these changes could reduce public oversight and limit consultation on decisions affecting your food, farms, and environment.
“Whatever your view, it’s important to understand what’s at stake. Read the bills, ask questions, contact your MP, and make sure your voice is heard before a decision is made. Because if the rules change, you’ll all live with the consequences.
Now, I’m sorry to have to stick my beak in, but I love you guys down there, and I’m just sending out a message. Thank you.
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Thank you Mel Gibson for shining a light on an issue most New Zealanders haven’t even heard about. 🥝 🇳🇿
THREE BILLS ARE REWRITING THE RULES AROUND GENE TECHNOLOGY, GMOs, AGRICULTURAL BIOTECH AND WHAT CAN ENTER THE NZ FARMING SYSTEM.
🧬 GENE TECHNOLOGY BILL
🧪 HSNO AMENDMENT… pic.twitter.com/Uc1aAHXww5
— GE Honesty (@GEHonesty) September 20, 2026
GE Honesty posted the video with a blunt campaign message: the bills are rewriting what can enter New Zealand farms, animals, and the food system “without widespread public awareness or informed consent.”
Once a genetically engineered organism is released, the group notes, it cannot be recalled. Genetic contamination cannot be undone.
Farmers, organic producers, exporters who sell “clean, green” New Zealand, and parents who want to know what is on the dinner table all have skin in the game.
According to the group:
“Put simply, the rules governing what enters NZ farms, animals and our food system are being overhauled rapidly – without widespread public awareness or informed consent. These Bills remove or weaken long-standing safeguards designed to protect human health, our environment and rate-payers.
New experimental biotechnologies haven’t suddenly become safer.
If anything, as gene technology, synthetic biology and AI become more powerful and complex, now with brand new risks and unknown consequences – we need MORE scrutiny, stronger safeguards and greater transparency, not less.
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And once a GE or GMO organism is released into the environment, you can’t simply recall it. Genetic contamination can’t be undone.
For farmers and organics that raises serious questions around contamination, liability and protecting GE-free production.
For consumers, it’s about choice, traceability and knowing what’s in our food.
For NZ exporters, it’s about protecting the trust, reputation and premium markets we’ve spent decades building.
For parents, it’s about preserving natural, healthy food for our children, and generations to come.
If you care about this please share this to help inform other kiwis what’s at stake.
You have a voice. Make sure you use it.
Get informed. Contact your MP. Demand they STOP these bills.
KEEP GE IN THE LAB, NOT OUR FOOD.”
