GM SCIENTIST MEETS BIOTECH BAKING BRIGADE
Julianne Little | 22.01.2004 15:22 | Bio-technology | Ecology | London | World
On 21st January Paul Rylott - top GM scientist at Bayer Cropscience delivered a stirring speech on how to manage consumer response to biotechnology, at a conference on Managing and Predicting Crisis in the Food Industry. As he took his place in the queue for his buffet dinner a polite call of "Mr Rylott?" brought him face to face with a chocolate fudge cake (skipped and stale) covered with the sweaty rotting whipped cream and the shout "That's for GM!" Before the assualting party fled.
Some leaflets were given out to the surprised and immobilised crowd and all those protesting left before the cops arrived.
This is part of a national UK campaign against Bayer and against GM commercialisation. Actions taken place have included junk mailing, sabotage including lock glueing, spraypainting, window breaking, golf courses destroyed , office occupations, noise demonstrations and trespasses.
The biotech baking brigade stated: " GM Technology is the latest onslaught of a bland and tedious industrial technological society against the planet. We are against monoculture and for biodiversity, against the domestication of people and land, and for the wild. There is no neutral ground: everyone is called upon to choice their side. Whenever They strike - be they government, corporations or greenwash quangos - we will strike back. They have declared war on us and our planet: we will answer it.
Some leaflets were given out to the surprised and immobilised crowd and all those protesting left before the cops arrived.
This is part of a national UK campaign against Bayer and against GM commercialisation. Actions taken place have included junk mailing, sabotage including lock glueing, spraypainting, window breaking, golf courses destroyed , office occupations, noise demonstrations and trespasses.
The biotech baking brigade stated: " GM Technology is the latest onslaught of a bland and tedious industrial technological society against the planet. We are against monoculture and for biodiversity, against the domestication of people and land, and for the wild. There is no neutral ground: everyone is called upon to choice their side. Whenever They strike - be they government, corporations or greenwash quangos - we will strike back. They have declared war on us and our planet: we will answer it.
Julianne Little
Homepage:
http://www.stopbayergm.org
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nice action...shame about the report
22.01.2004 15:52
I would of considered the report in a humourous fashion, if it were not for the history of previous over-wrought, self-regarding bayer reports.
campaigner
What's on her plate?
22.01.2004 17:25
Is the woman on the left holding a plate of GM food ? If so what is it ?
be nice if it turned out to be organic !
GL
Congratulations!
22.01.2004 18:32
Me and wild nature thankyou muchly.
May the Battle against Bayer continue!
So nice to hear of actions where everyone gets away...
Inconspicuous
nice action - shame about the report
22.01.2004 18:50
Finally though, those who do the actions are at liberty to report them how they want, no? You, campaigner, are free to report them as you will.
Jullianne Little
Who ate all the pies?
23.01.2004 01:25
But if he really WAS "face to face" with the fudge cake, why's it all down the back of his neck??
Phantom Phlan Phlinger
Losers
23.01.2004 13:22
Rudolph
nice...
23.01.2004 13:49
(I don't normally respond to trolls, but fish in barrels and all that)
Have you ever considered the (some would say revolutionary) meanings behind these pie-ing actions?
Capitalism can take almost anything except humiliation (see Laugh In actions e.g. against Monsanto in India)
It could have been anything stuck in his face (including something lethal, this makes them slightly wary)
It backs up the other aspects of a concerted campaign (hence the references in the posting) and makes it 'poysonal'
It gets some publicity (including no doubt in his own company, where he will be a figure of fun for some weeks)
anarchoteapot
Great action!
25.01.2004 08:33
No GM
the answer
29.01.2004 13:16
1 The woman in the back, with the plate.
Well it is obvious that she is the one who smuggled in the back-up pie. The disguise is great, she blends in perfectly. Timing is also right, she has her pie ready, immediately after the initial pie attack and has positioned herself close to the likely escape route of the target. If the target choses to make a run for it he will have to face the backup-pie ready and waiting. The man in the background just got rid of the second backup pie. Because of the distance he was armed with a long range muffin. You can clearly see that he has a some trouble stuffing it, but with the right mind set you can do extraordinary things!
2 Where did the pie go?.
If you take a good look, you can see the smile on the face of the guy on the far right, making his way out of the crowd. It was him who licked everything of Rylott’s face. His usual job is kissing his butt of course, but the picture clearly states the there was nothing wrong with the pie and he did enjoy this new line of work. According to him Rylott can’t be pied to often!
fudge
back chat
06.06.2005 13:09
If you knew him then you would know otherwise.
You are just too full of yourself to know better!!!
Kathryn