GMO Crop Sabotage on the Rise
by Drew Kaplan
http://healthfreedoms.org/2010/08/24/gmo-crop-sabotage-on-the-rise/
While America frets the slick onslaught of
GM (genetically modified)
crops, the rest of world is taking action even at the risk of defying authorities and facing prison. To countries like France, Spain, and India, no means no! The people of these nations have found little recourse with their leaders when they oppose the installation of
Monsanto crops. They fear the danger of the sickly
GM plants (and the absurd chemicals and pesticides they require) to their environment, health, and the survival of their organic or even non-organic fields. Some groups have battled this corruption through field destruction, anti-
Monsanto campaigns, protests, and even openly rejecting Daddy
Monsanto’s “gift” of franken-food during times of crisis.
Americans, repeat after Europe – Don’t mess with our food!
Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burned Bt cotton in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Ignored by multinational corporations and corrupt public policy makers, citizens act to protect the food supply and the planet.
The French vineyard is the same field attacked last year when the plants were only cut. But the security features installed after that incident kept authorities at bay while the group accomplished its mission yesterday.
Speaking for the group, Olivier Florent told Le Figero that they condemned the use of public funds for open-field testing of GMOs “that we do not want.”
Pitching tents in the rain near France’s National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA) site in Colmar the …..read more here >>>
Tags: Bt Cotton, Crops, Cusp, Environment Health, Food Supply, French Police, French Vineyard, Gm Plants, Gmos, Grapevines, Indian Farmers, Kaplan, Monsanto, Multinational Corporations, Onslaught, Pesticides, Protests, Public Policy Makers, Recourse, Sabotage
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