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Genetic Field Trials in Britain

Morgan | 13.09.2000 17:05

Here's news of an action that hasn't taken place. Where are all the defenders of our countryside, permaculturists, feral spirits?
Why aren't the steps to the courthouse thronged with concerned people?
Has the rape of our land by Biotech Barons become a non-issue?

Some of the people who first brought awareness of the dangers of GE (genetic engineering) being deployed in England's fields to the attention of the general public are now going through the unpleasant rigours of a second trial for attempting to destroy a crop of GE maize from the Biotech giant Aventis, fomerly known as AgrEvo.

There was no public consultation before the unleashing of this potential pollution and ineradicable danger into our countryside. There was no use of what sound science is based upon - the Precautionary Principle.

Whilst Government prevaricated, swayed no doubt by big business concerns, Greenpeace tried every avenue to persuade against allowing the crop to flower (and hence spread its pollen far and wide - perhaps even to organically certified crops - you know, the ones the public are now crying out for and can't get enough of due mainly to a lack of government foresight?)

So they resorted to pulling the crop up and, inevitably, got arrested.

Now they're going through it all over again - no wonder they sound tired.

Read the rivetting court transcripts at:-
 http://www.greenpeace.org/supporters/8-00-news.html

Better yet, send them some love and support - they're doing the things anyone who resonates to the concept of us just borrowing this planet from our children should be doing...

Morgan
 http://www.environment.org.uk/activist/ for a cohesive set of links exposing the obscene injustices rife in today's corporate climate. Campaigning for a retrospective moratorium on mergers, worldwide.

Morgan
- e-mail: mango.uno@virgin.net
- Homepage: http://www.environment.org.uk/activist/

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