Scientists are researching new techniques of pest control. One technique is to use gene drives, which involves genetically modifying rodents to make them infertile. Another technique being researched involves the use of viruses as an immunocontraceptive, which uses the body’s immune system to induce temporary infertility by targeting specific components of the reproductive process.
“Both of these approaches come with significant risks. Not just viruses but also genetic sequences can be highly mobile. Once released, genetically modified characteristics designed to prevent reproduction cannot necessarily be contained or remediated. Moreover, under some conditions, such characteristics might be able to evolve or cross species,” Dr. Guy Hatchard warns.
As we read Dr. Hatchard’s article below, we should ask ourselves: “How long before humans are seen as pests that they believe need to be controlled?”
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Confronting News: Gene Drives are Being Produced in New Zealand
By Dr. Guy Hatchard, 22 October 2025
Five patients have been hospitalised in Queensland after ingesting the rat poison brodifacoum. ABC reports that the authorities do not know the source of the cluster which has affected people from five different families in Logan, a satellite city south of Brisbane.
Brodifacoum is a widely used long-lasting rat poison produced through a multistage complex chemical synthesis process. Although plants are not used in its synthesis, the foundational chemical structures exploited during its production were originally discovered in spoiled sweet clover.
Brodifacoum is designed to prevent blood coagulation and kills its victims through internal bleeding. It is widely used in New Zealand for possum and rat control. The main problem lies in its secondary effects on other wildlife, such as birds of prey, dogs, etc, who might eat poisoned prey or the bait itself. As a result of these secondary kill effects, scientists in New Zealand are working to produce a new form of rat and possum control utilising gene technology.
In 2016, New Zealand scientists began investigating the creation of species-specific “gene drives” utilising RNA interference, transgenic rodents and virus-vectored immunocontraception. Gene drives are genetic modifications which upset the Mendelian 50/50 reproductive balance between genders necessary for the survival of a species.
One technique being investigated involves the creation of genetically-modified males that do not produce daughters (known as a sex-lethal gene drive) or induce XX offspring (normally female) to develop instead as sterile males (known as a sex-reversal gene drive resulting in daughterless mice). XY offspring of these transgenic species would develop as normal, fertile males capable of spreading their disruptive transgene. The theory suggests a resulting substantial reduction in the number of fertile females, causing pest populations to die out. This daughterless pest approach would require repeated releases of large numbers of transgenic males into the wild.
Another technique that has been under discussion for a while is the use of viruses as vectors. The idea behind virus-vectored immunocontraception is that a species-specific virus is modified to produce a protein that then causes an immune response in the target organism. This immune response makes the target’s immune system attack its own reproductive cells. Sound familiar?
Both of these approaches come with significant risks. Not just viruses but also genetic sequences can be highly mobile. Once released, genetically modified characteristics designed to prevent reproduction cannot necessarily be contained or remediated. Moreover, under some conditions, such characteristics might be able to evolve or cross species.
Scientists at Victoria, Otago and Auckland universities are currently involved in gene drive research and development along with Genomics Aotearoa, supported by government bodies AgResearch, Plant and Food Research, Landcare Research and the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment. Private companies ZIP (Zero Invasive Predators) and Predator Free 2050 Ltd, along with others including the Royal Society Te Apārangi, are helping to support and promote the research and its ultimate application.
A paper published in 2024 in the journal Frontiers is entitled ‘Views of conservation volunteers and environmental specialists on genetic technologies for pest control in Aotearoa New Zealand.’ The paper is the result of a collaboration between Victoria University and the Department of Integrative and Global Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., USA (a private university dedicated to technological innovation). The project appears to be part of an effort to normalise the creation and use of gene drives in New Zealand for pest control. It reports the results of a survey of 8,000 people working in the pest control area, which shows a majority support for gene technology in New Zealand. Incredibly, the study found that ALL of the conservation volunteers, scientists, academics and environmental professionals surveyed naively expected that the risks associated with the projected use of gene technology to control pests would be carefully and fully identified and mitigated against. A breathtaking statement of misplaced faith running completely counter to scientific discussions of risk reported in the published literature.
[Related: UK government is wasting time and money on PCR testing tens of thousands of mosquitoes]
New Zealand offers a highly attractive venue for research into gene drives because we are an island nation with a government that has announced its commitment to liberalising genetic experimentation. Elsewhere, gene drive research is exclusively confined to laboratories. If our government passes the Gene Technology Bill in its present form, a regulator would be able to give the go-ahead for New Zealand field trials, possibly beginning on offshore New Zealand islands that have pest infestations.
At the start of this article, we cited the cases of rat poisoning in Brisbane to illustrate that mistakes are inevitable – containment is never absolute. The escape of poisons into the food chain is regrettable, but always limited to specific times, products and/or places. The escape of genetically viable material that can reproduce itself and spread without limit is another matter entirely.
It is now widely understood that Covid escaped from a laboratory; moreover, that lab escapes are routine. Our World in Data estimates 30 million excess deaths worldwide during the last 5 years. Whether these resulted from covid or covid injections is largely immaterial. Both resulted from genetic experimentation.
The results of the 2024 survey discussed above point to a pathetic lack of comprehension of the risks of gene experimentation in New Zealand and an unthinking acceptance of its inevitable sanction and use. There is no doubt that Parliament has failed to inform itself or the public of the known risks. Not only should the Gene Technology Bill be withdrawn, but gene drive experiments already initiated in New Zealand laboratories point to a need for even stricter laws than the present Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (“HSNO”) rules.
A major part of the problem is the description of gene editing techniques and the resulting modified material or organisms as “natural’ or ‘equivalent” to natural. The deceptive repetition of this public relations sleight of hand is pressuring legislators and regulators around the world to cave in to demands that genetically altered products are in no need of safety testing or labelling. As a result, the entire processed food chain has become contaminated with unlabelled gene-altered ingredients and processing aids, whose effect on health is untested yet already suspected to be damaging.
Society is faced with rapidly increasing rates of bowel and other cancers affecting young and old alike, but those charged with protecting our health are looking the other way as they wave thousands of novel gene-altered food products through regulatory processes without scrutiny. The Gene Technology Bill is designed to normalise this dangerous process, speed it up and promote the myth of safety. It should be immediately halted. I can’t find words strong enough to point out the dangerous stupidity that is at work.
About the Author
Guy Hatchard, PhD, is a New Zealander who was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food testing and safety company (now known as FoodChain ID).
You can subscribe to Dr. Hatchard’s websites, HatchardReport.com and GLOBE.GLOBAL, for regular updates by email. GLOBE.GLOBAL is a website dedicated to providing information about the dangers of biotechnology. You can also follow Dr. Hatchard on Twitter HERE, Facebook HERE and Substack HERE.
Featured image taken from ‘Rat Hunt: Why New Zealand is eliminating all of its rodents’, First Post, 27 June 2023
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“How long before humans are seen as pests?”
I’d ask, for how long have humans been seen as pests? Various groups have tried to eradicate other groups since time immemorial. It’s only recently that they’ve had tools that aren’t immediately noticeable, (a guy with a sword, a dead animal in the well, a stink in the air, a colonist’s blanket), to do it with. The Covid vax experiment went so well for them that they’re going full steam into the exploration and exploitation of every other possibility.
“Not just viruses but also genetic sequences can be highly mobile.”
Chemtrails can be used to spread disease as well as toxic particles. I first saw chemtrails in 1990 in Albany, NY, and they’ve only increased since then. The US fertility rate was at its lowest in 2024; now it is going up. So, out come new aerosol weapons of mass destruction. It’s WWI’s mustard gas meets 2025 technology, only people won’t realize — or will refuse to believe — why they’re going extinct.
There are no chemtrails. Look up WW2 bomber CONTRAILS. 1940s. The USAAF even did a study which you can find on YouTube. The sky is far too big for that kind of thing…you aren’t a flat earther are you?
And don’t talk about geo engineering…nothing to do with your moronic chemtrail bs.
I see some fum duck didn’t look up the USAAF study. Carry on looking for your firmament. Down vote all you wish. Zero evidence for dumbtrails…
Do contrails normally evaporate? This was farmland near me in the early morning….
Seems the photo won’t upload!
Try putting a kippa on your head-that should do the trick!!
I think that’s why the uploading of photos has been taken from my grasp….😂
I had some good chemtrail photos as well 💨✈️
What are you trying to say?
If it is what I think it is, I’m feeling disappointed in you.
No! You are very wrong.
Just a bit of light hearted humour-that’s all-obviously backfired! Strewth!!!
This is the problem today-you can’t say anything without people taking offence.
I made the comment because he has put many an image of men wearing kippa’s on your site-that’s all.
I’m NO anti-Semite!!!
Hi Islander, thanks for explaining. I was thinking that you were attempting to insult The Expose as Yousleh Zeeter has a particular bias, as you indicate.
The kippa is but a symbol of Judaism, that is all. The cross is also but a symbol of Christianity.
Yet, look how what was accomplished on the cross is being trampled underfoot, and constantly blasphemed?
Not very many these days seem pretty much to care about offending the Truth as it is in Christ-God!
Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye,
shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 10:29.
What is a kippa?
Hi Yousleh Zeeter, I can’t be sure but I suspect the ability for commentators to upload photos has been removed because we are trying to save space on our website. Data storage costs money and as you know we are a free to read, and free to comment, website that survives on donations.
Very few people who read The Expose make a donation (at the highest point 0.01% and at the lowest 0.0001% of readers), so money is always tight for The Expose and we are always keeping an eye out how to keep our costs down. I know our IT team have been doing a number of things in recent months to reduce the data storage we require. We had a lot of commentators posting a lot of photos, which of course uses up data storage space. This is why I suspect the ability to upload photos in the comments section is no longer available or restricted/limited.
Are you not able to share a link to where the photos are stored online?
No problem Rhoda. I don’t have any social media accounts, the pictures are in my camera roll. It’s a pity because I’d love the Reverend to reply. The pictures I took show heavy spraying in the morning then thick sun dimming trails about 12 hours later. I’ve been on this flat realm for over 50 years and I never saw the like growing up….
It’s a shame we can’t see your photos, but that is how things are these days- the worst is yet to come; that is, before the Lord returns in unsurpassed glory.
As for ‘Reverend’ Scott, well, let’s leave him to wallow around in his own conceits…
Hi A Yousleh Zeeter, there are websites for people to upload their photographs of chemtrails. Have you tried uploading them on one of those?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0tyYdFHVdk have you seen this ? p S the bible states the earth is round and flat mmm your thoughts
This makes sense. Now if they could make themselves infertile, these lyentists could perhaps stop pestering us with their hogwash research.
That’s old news, they did that in Australia 20 or 30 years ago on wild rabbits. People who reported on it, said it was a terrible way for the poor creatures to die, they suffered horrific deaths.
I’m sure it was administered to people during the covid hoax too, the de-population part of the mystery serum jab. All those “died suddenly” victims of WEF, WHO & Gates.
Nazis Gotta Nazi <<<< Natural Born Killers
Germans should stick to raising pigs and making sausages.
You should never mess with nature…it backfires usually creating worse problems…
UK’s ‘nanny’, pseudo-regulators and ‘AI’ embed and widely spread corrupt and contaminated food.
So more time and effort spent by more people searching for Real Food: fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs, dairy.
Supporting Real Food buys time for nature to crash pseudo-food system; natural world out-powers control-freaks by far.
the said trials for vax,s so not to hurt the rodents is being instituted on humans first . that’s a twist backwards lol we’re top of the food chain lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AMJO6dVTdP0 people should look at this gentleman ( grandfather of nuclear in u s a )
History has proven that wicked leaders have no problem testing poisons on their citizens. History has also proven that elitists have treated third world citizens with “vaccines” to sterilize them. They experiment with viruses and diseases to create the means to kill large populations quickly and effectively. Any person that can work on these projects knowing what the intended use is for is indeed a sick individual and will ultimately suffer a far greater end than their intended victims. “Thou shalt not commit murder.”