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Statement from Mutatoes.org and campaigners against Hull’s GM potato trials

GM Free Potatoes | 24.04.2007 23:58 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Cambridge | Sheffield

On Saturday, over 250 people from around the country attended a rally in Hull in a powerful and vibrant display of resistance to the reintroduction of GM crops to the UK.

In a bid to invalidate the trial, thousands of organic potatoes were planted across a two hectare field. It was felt necessary to take action before planting because it is virtually impossible to decontaminate a root crop after it is in the ground. Unfortunately, we discovered today that the field planted on Saturday was not the proposed trial site and was instead owned by farmer David Buckton. We apologise to David Buckton.

With the information that we had and the short time scale available to us (between the late announcement of the trial site and the first possible opportunity to plant the GM potatoes) we sincerely believed this to be the correct field.

There were several reasons for the error made:
• The public were not given sufficient information by the government who supplied only a 4-figure grid reference for the location of the trial (an area of 1 square km).
• In a public meeting on April 5, a local farmer suggested that the proposed site was currently planted with oil-seed rape. This was flatly denied by the BASF representative who implied that the field was clear and ready for the trial.
• The only field in the area bordered by Marfleet, Hedon and Preston where ground had been prepared but which had not yet been planted with a crop was the one just East of Marfleet. There were no unplanted fields in the area
covered by the four figure grid reference given by DEFRA. Consequently, because these grid references are notoriously unreliable we investigated all fields within several hundred metres of this reference, the only one prepared for planting, but not yet sown, was the one in question.
• The Government’s consultation period ended on 20th April, with the 21st being the first date that the GM potatoes could be planted; hence why the Rally was called for last Saturday.

The decision was made under pressure, by a campaign only three weeks old; a campaign which pulled off an audacious action nonetheless. It is our position that we made the best judgment that we could as to which was the proposed trial site. While it is regrettable that the wrong site and farmer were targeted, we would also like to make it clear to the government and to industry that people will continue to disrupt the planting of GM crops despite the difficulties faced by this lack of full disclosure.

Mutatoes.org has only been in existence for three weeks now, and working to a tight schedule, with very few people. In that time we gathered loads of up-for-it people willing to go into a field in broad daylight and take direct action for the planet. It was a successful action in all other aspects: the potatoes were planted, we did it under the noses of the police and there were no arrests. The message sent out is clear - attempt to grow GM crops in this country and we will take action. Of that we remain proud, and thank everyone who came along and took part, in what ever role.

Despite a mistake being made we believe it was far better that we went ahead and challenged the GM trials than stood by doing nothing. We clearly demonstrated the British public are willing to take on the multinationals / government on this issue. Though it was, and remains, our avowed intention to prevent the trials from going ahead, we are fully aware that these trials are as much a test of public opinion as a genuine scientific experiment. Consequently, although the wrong field was targetted we still achieved one of our primary objectives of demonstrating that the British pubic are resolutely opposed to GM crops and will take action to resist their reintroduction into the UK.

The multinationals behind GM crops have bided their time since Bayer pulled out from the last trials three years ago. But they have been pressing ahead in the rest of the world. It is vital that we, as a movement, rise to the occasion, and demonstrate that resistance is as vigourous as ever. We are unapologetic for what we have attempted to do and we will not cease our efforts to keep the UK GM free.

And as useful byproduct – we now know where the actual field is, thanks to the police…

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Mistake

25.04.2007 07:41

This is very sad news. I am a very simple man myself, uneducated and ugly,I often make mistakes, well done to all those who attended from far and wide, I was busy elsewhere with Animal Rights issues.
Good Luck all......................Steven.

Steve Mclean

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Ha Ha Ha

25.04.2007 09:38

...How come you can get 250 people to dig up the wrong field but you can't get more than ten peopleata time out to confront the BNP?

Rudeboy

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Sad day for humanity.

25.04.2007 15:57

You people should be ashamed of yourselves.

Are you so unbelievably stupid that your best idea to state your case and prove your point is to be vandals? Are you 14 years old? And you're patting yourselves on the back for a job sort of half well done. You're all nothing. You're a waste of the oxygen that you breathe.

I hope that farmer sues you all personally (and not just your organization) for any and all damage that you did to his crops and field, and for all of his time that you wasted.

You want to prevent GM production? Get off your lazy childish asses and help find a better way to feed people.

I'm sure your parents are proud of you.

Barry Mason

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This Is Truly A Victory!

25.04.2007 16:02

Yay! Here's a big shoutout to our brothers across the pond for helping smash GM products. While you got the wrong field and probably destroyed some poor sod's livelihood for the year, you're fighting for the people damn it, and some casualties in wartime are justified. This is the kind of spirit we need more of. Frankly, you should have simply contaminated *all* the fields, because who knows how much more GM stuff is out there? Why, I'd be willing to bet your government isn't sharing most of it, especially the stuff grown in foreign countries to feed the poor. We, as Western consumers, animal rights activists, socialists, and free humans of the world, have the clear right to eat only the foods we want, free market, government, and industry be damned, and I for one am proud to see you uphold that right. Just think; if that GM food gets in the food supply, two weeks from now children will be growing third eyes, squid tentacles, and glowing in the dark as our DNA is slowing reduced to a chimaeric hodgepodge of random sequences. We need to stop mutants *now* - The Hills Have Eyes may well be our future if this continues. In addition to campaigning against the horrible evil of GM food and people eating meat, we need anti-mutant legislation, since they are both GM themselves and eat meat, as we've clearly seen in The Hills Have Eyes. Burn the crops and protest the companies, because together even a few of us can make a huge difference by breaking the law and attacking multi-billion dollar corporations!!!

John Norton

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Bravo and congratulations!

25.04.2007 16:12

Congratulations on your complete asshattery! In addition to simply pointing out how stupid you are, I would like you to know that this article has been linked on Fark.com, which is well-known internationally and ranked as one of the most influential websites in existence. Due to this, people all over the world display solidarity in laughing at you in your failure.
However, I do urge you to hang on in quiet desperation, and better luck next time!

Cobra Commander

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Despite your best intentions...

25.04.2007 16:18

This episode made you look retarded. Nice going.

PHOTOZ

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Vandals

25.04.2007 16:21


hope the next farmer takes some accurate shots with a .50 cal.

george w.

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Ignorance at its finest.

25.04.2007 16:24

Your battle is with the "Man". Sabatoging fields is just ignorant. Have you ever seen the "Man" in a field, I think not, and you never will. You ought to feel pretty stupid. Whatever it is you think you're trying to do, do it differently. Farmers are the subjects of the "Man" just as bad or worse than most people. They grow what will make them the most money in order to support themselves. This isn't their fault, its your's, our's, everyone's. You chosen to sit back and do nothing, and now you for a jumpstart oganization that's way to late to the party. Want to make a difference? Join the French and not eat potatos. But remember, just like the French you'll end up surrendering anyway.

Eric

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?????????

25.04.2007 16:25

MORONS!!!!

Allan lobdell
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Follow the trail.....

25.04.2007 16:31

..of faulty decisions and hastily-reached conclusions that led to this act of vandalism, and one can see the weak logic of your entire manifesto. How incredibly arrogant and self-important you are, to call your misguided efforts a "victory" of any sort.
On a brighter note, this episode serves to expose the truly low caliber of the reasoning you've employed to object to GM foods. Good on you for at least revealing the idiocy at the root of your cause.

Scott Forbus
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Consider Gov't Service

25.04.2007 16:34

"Despite a mistake being made we believe it was far better that we went ahead and challenged the GM trials than stood by doing nothing."

Hahaha! You should be working in the field of government. Seems you're as efficient, organized and able to make lame excuses easily.

Better luck next time, you'll need it.

SteveD

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Too funny....

25.04.2007 16:41

Did you go toilet paper his trees when you were done destroying this man's "good" crop (ie none of the GM crop)? Your site read like a 12 year old boys wrote it, and planned the operation.

Tim

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What a bunch of morons

25.04.2007 16:46

So you basically fucked over a regular farmer, and don't seem to care. You don't seem to mind that you didn't do you homework to figure out exactly what field it was. You just wanted to destroy something. For that I say Fuck You and your cause. You give good protesters a bad name.

Destro

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Wow, now that's stupid!

25.04.2007 16:56

Oooh, you're making a pathetic, useless, and WORTHLESS "apology" to the farmer that you VICTIMIZED. How about making MATERIAL compensation to the tune of the crop that YOU criminally ruined?

Bryan
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you showed them

25.04.2007 16:58

Nice going. You should put your tails between your legs and go hide under the table. This was an f-up of enormous proportions.
You consider the operation a success? You're right, it enlightened a previously unaware public that there is nothing sacred to eco vandals. What you did had nothing to do with GM food. At all. It was wanton destruction. May your organization shrivel and die.

GM Hater

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Deez Nutz

25.04.2007 17:02

Please, go and eat some organic peanut butter, get cancer from the aflotoxins, and die.

I have no problem with your broad goals, but the self-congratulatory tone of your statement is ridiculous. It really doesn't even seem like you're actually sorry. Sure you said you were sorry, but then you spent the bulk of your statement explaining WHY you screwed up. A more reasonable statement would outline what you are going to do to help this farmer, and correct your error. Continuously blaming your poor organizational skills on the fact that you "only have been around for 3 weeks" doesn't inspire any form of confidence.

So, you're relatively new, wanted to do something, and got the manpower to do it. But the planning was off. And when it all hung in the balance, you decided better to just do something, than to do it right. Wow. And you think you should be in charge of the food supply...amazing.

And if the police knew where the right field was, why didn't you ask someone before tearing up the fields? "Convenient by-product?" Are you joking? You're joking, right?

Tamia Scurius

and the farmer...

25.04.2007 17:05

Assumably you're going to do something more significant than this useless apology? Something that will actually help him, like cleaning up the mess you made? Somehow fixing the problem that his beans have probably been trampled by your potato planting members? No, I suppose not.

I do congratulate you on taking action "under the noses of the police." Presumably they didn't care because you weren't on the fields they were protecting? It's a shame really, the coverage says they were present, but didn't do anything because you were being peaceful. I bet that's a real comfort to the farmer and his family.

Richard Estabrooks

insincere much?

25.04.2007 17:08

When you dedicate one sentence to a half-assed apology and two paragraphs explaining how your mistake wasn't really a mistake, wasn't your fault, and couldn't have been avoided, it makes it pretty clear that you are an arrogant jerk. In the space of one page this press release manages to provide contradictory excuses, none of which even implies that the group is in any way at actual fault. It would appear that their rallying cry is "They think they know hypocrisy? We'll show them hypocrisy!"

mark
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Nice spin

25.04.2007 17:12

Can't tell the difference between beans and potatoes? Vandalism is just a mild form of terrorism. You are destroying other people’s property to get them to think like you do.

Sad.

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Me too

25.04.2007 17:13

The very same thing happened to me the other day.

My wife asked me to do the dishes, and as a form of protest I lit my neighbors car on fire.

When my wife asked me why I did that I just yelled "SEE it proves my point!!!"

I feel totally justified.

I hope my wife learned her lesson.

Erin

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wow... just wow...

25.04.2007 17:16

you guys are a bunch of asshats....

Dr. Pepper

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Nice Spin

25.04.2007 17:16

Can't tell the difference between beans and potatoes? Vandalism is just a mild form of terrorism. You are destroying other people’s property to get them to think like you do.

Sad.

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Try something else

25.04.2007 17:17

Maybe you should try something a little more on your level next time. For example, you could attempt to tell the difference between your ass and a hole in the ground.

Gord

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Hey, get me some GM-crop next time

25.04.2007 17:18

Get me some GM-crop next time you are actually out on the right field. I do not hold up hope as you fail map reading 10L.. Let's see if you can do "mail the package" operation. LOL Contact me when my GM-tators are ready to be shipped to the USA.

I will wait to hear back from my patatos.

TimB

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Me 3!! Get Out!

25.04.2007 17:26

Me too

The very same thing happened to me the other day.

My wife asked me to do the dishes, and as a form of protest I lit my neighbors car on fire.

When my wife asked me why I did that I just yelled "SEE it proves my point!!!"

I feel totally justified.

I hope my wife learned her lesson.

Erin "

I messed up and lit my neighbor on fire. He will stay out of my way next time. LOL

Tim

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Well aren't you bummycocks...

25.04.2007 17:28

So you bluboed the blokes layer and you want to claim its not your jib? Well thats just incorrect and all around blubbo. If you want anyone to take you straight as whiskey you have to atleast accept the responsibility for your mistakes. You can't expect a lad to form a greco for you if you sit around making the same dilrimples that the uppers make now can you? That doesn't flecent even a womble! If you grimey the same way those you holler against then people will see you as no different than those that you have gimbly against. Poor show old man, poor show indeed.

Clearly you are a set of wankers that redefine the term wanker. Bite my bubble!

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My son Bart would be proud

25.04.2007 17:30

I love it, you completely messed up, all 250 of you, and you make it very public that you did, and don't even understand how stupid you look to the rest of the world.

Welcome to Earth, where even you are permitted to breed.

Margaret Simpson

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Don't buy GM - Potatoes

25.04.2007 17:34

Ford Potatoes are much better.

Dick Payne
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spot the BASF employees

25.04.2007 17:39

As a regular reader of Indymedia it is not hard to spot that the tirade of abuse in the comments to this post indicates something a tad more organised. Come clean folks - which pro-gm industry sent out the round robin email telling you to spout off.

I hope BASF got the message from the day - wrong field it may have been but people will take action to stop you.

happy planter

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selective uptake of scientific information

25.04.2007 17:46

So why is it that you tree hugging morons regurgitate everything scientists say about global warming but when it comes to GM foods you guys are deaf as a post? Splain that to me will ya Lucy?

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*sigh*

25.04.2007 17:50

I don't get it. Shouldn't the main focus of GM modified plants be that they are patented and thus verpriced, and not that they are modified? Humans have been modifying stuff by slective breeding for thousands of years. I mean look at corn: it's not a natural plant at all. It's entirely man made as it currently exists.

So really, whats the focus of your objections to all this? That science did in a few years what selective breeding does in a century or more?

As for the farmer, I hope you guys pull enough double shifts at wal-mart to pay for all the damages. And Until you guys learn how to read a map, stay the fark away from other fields, least you screw someone elses life up.

Sweet Zombie Jesus, everytime i think i've seen the true face of stupidity, someone like you bafoons shows up and redefines it.

Dirk Macdonald

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Found this webpage!

25.04.2007 17:56

I accidentally brought down 10 websites while trying to find this one so. I'm sorry that I had to take down 10 wrong websites and then put in a picture of a dog humping another dog, but I feel that it sent a clear message to you guys. More and more, we are seeing anti-gm protests, we can't continue with business as usual. We must fight for what's wrong and keep out talking points straight and honest. No waffling.

Margret McCookacutty

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wow

25.04.2007 18:00

lookyhere at all these yank bozo comments...they're such free-thinkers, they rely on web-sites to tell them who to go and insult! planting potatoes in an empty field is 'vandalism'? akin (that means equivalent, which means 'like', dipsticks) to arson? to 'toilet-papering' trees (we don't do that adolescent shit here, seriously, not even the adolescents!!!)? It's 'contamination' only to field-scale trials of GM food crops. A worthy intention.

Still funny that the wrong field was hit...next week in the right field then?

;-)

amazed

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Sheryl Crow' over there on that side of the pond?

25.04.2007 18:09

When I read this I thought "Sheryl Crow Global Warming an and potatoes? Then I noticed that they that were from the UK. Is Sheryl there? This is her Dad, tell her we miss her. Please come home ASAP girl! Stop picking potatoes from farms.

Thank you,
Sheryl Crow's Family

Sheryl Crow

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Spot the BASF?

25.04.2007 18:13

WTF, so anyone who does not agree with your stupidity is a BASF employee? Can you possibly be more arrogant? One of the previous commentor said this was inked to FARK.com, and that is where this torrent of sanity, which you view as BASF intervention, has come from.
Organic potaotes to commit terrorism with: Cheap
You ruin an innocent farmers crop and congratulate yourself on your stupidity in the name of environmental activism:Priceless!
Asshats!

Chipper

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LOL

25.04.2007 18:31

i just surfed in from fark.com...
and laughed my head off!

not only admitting your useless vandalism,
but also trying to (f-word) justify it!

i hope you at least pay the farmers damage.

Captain Sensible

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Indymedia should take down the comment section.

25.04.2007 18:40

As a regular reader of Indymedia it is not hard to spot that the tirade of abuse in the comments to this post indicates something a tad more organised. Come clean folks - which pro-gm industry sent out the round robin email telling you to spout off.

I hope BASF got the message from the day - wrong field it may have been but people will take action to stop you.

===

This story has been posted on Fark.com a very popular american rightwing hate site. Its operator is evil. He profits off of drugged up womyn who need cash to feed a drug habit. You can see for youself by clicking on the so called boobies section. I spend many hours per day visiting this so called boobies section. Many of the womyn have sharp knees and look like drug addicts. Praise Jesus

Vegamite Jones

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Salt

25.04.2007 18:54

Too bad the farmer didn't pepper your arse with rock salt from a shotgun.

Ken

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Way to Go!

25.04.2007 18:58

Ahhh yes - once again, we see the effectiveness of when causes are married to cluelessness! Boy, you guys sure taught that big evil company a lesson by messing up someone else's field that had nothing to do with GM!

Add to this the delightful mixing of arrogance and ignorance in how it was totally understandable and forgivable, and how anyone who laughs at you idiots for your stupidity must be part of some big conspiracy against you!

It's ok, don't give up - just pull your tin foil hats on a little tighter - the laws of random distribution say that if you keep trying, eventually you might get something right.

Idiots.

CommonSenseSurrenders

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A victory!

25.04.2007 19:03

Why would BASF need to send people here? You guys are doing an awesome job of discrediting yourselves all by yourself. The best part of this is that articles that show up in FARK usually then appear on hundreds of other websites and in the newspapers as the MSM uses FARK to find 'newsworthy' articles that are weird, strange or just exhibit massive quantities of stupidity.

You can get together 250 people for 'direct action' - but when you screw up, you just follow the Bush doctrine - Declare Victory! And not a penny to make things right.

For your next act, I think you should trash some other innocent farmer's field - earning yourselves another enemy in the process, and the fertilize the gm field. Then, strip naked and declare that your rank stupidity was caused by eating too many mutatoes(tm).

Tor

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Smooth move farmer haters

25.04.2007 19:16

You guys are brilliant! I'm glad you guys are in the UK. Stay out of the states.

And like the others said, you've been FARKED!

Shaka, when the walls fell

Admit Mistake and Compensate

25.04.2007 20:11

I fully support the ANTI-GM movement, but I don't support what you have done. Your pres release makes our movement look very bad. I hear what you are saying, but you guys made a big mistake here, and an innocent party was harmed by your actions.

I thik you owe the farmer more than a two line apology, you need to compensate him for your mistake. You should mobilize again, and put in a days work with a farmer not growing GM crops, to make amends for your mistake, and the bad publicity you have brough to this cause.

Reading the responses above, you seem to pass the comments of as BASF sponsored, but if you look at what you are saying and what the responses are saying, you will see that there is no need for BASF to respond to you, as your group looks quite bad already.

Please do our movement no more harm, and compensate this poor farmer for the damage you did to an innocent.

We need farmers on our side, not against us, as they are the ones with a choice as to what type of crops they grow. You better believe if BASF offers to compensate this farmer for your damage, he would be more likely to grow GM crops in the future.

You really are not helping us here....

Jerry

nice one

25.04.2007 21:16

Just wanted to say well spoken to Jerry - good to see there's an anti-GM person on here who's willing to admit mistakes were made, and compensation should be given.

As for the crackpot asking which pro-GM lobby sent us all around, the sad news it that this link was posted to a news site. These shocking comments you're seeing making fun of this action and the lack of concern shown for that farmer? They're coming from normal, everyday people, and they sympathise with that farmer just as if he'd been victimised by a major corporation.

This is how the world outside of your insular community sees you - if you don't like it, work towards having demonstrations that don't screw over unrelated people.

And finally, the guy who claimed the fields were empty? Any trivial web search for the farmer's name and the word potatoes will bring up a Guardian article ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,,2064885,00.html) which says the fields were already sown with beans - they weren't empty.

Trev Lytle

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does asshat mean you're all twats?

25.04.2007 21:31

Glad all you comment-ers above think things through so thoroughly and have the time to slag others off from your armchairs.

Glad we don't know the word asshat over this side of the big pond - and we only have to put up with you on t'internet.

Go get a life/job/haircut (that's what if you lived here and hadn't just surfed in from fark.com you'd be saying to us)

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Sorry, old chap...

25.04.2007 21:41

"And finally, the guy who claimed the fields were empty? Any trivial web search for the farmer's name and the word potatoes will bring up a Guardian article (  http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0,,2064885,00.html) which says the fields were already sown with beans - they weren't empty."

Yup - just take a look at the arrogance portrayed by these idiots in justifying their illegal destruction of an innocent farmer's livelihood:

What? We destroyed your crop? Eh - sorry about that old chap, but like Stalin said - you can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs. Good luck making your payments this year with not crop to sell - just remember that we're on your side!

Common Sense Surrenders

Whose fault is it again?

25.04.2007 21:43

Regardless of the time available, you cannot hold anyone to blame other than the protestors. They owe more than an apology, they owe the farmer at a minimum the cost of setting the situation right, in a direct cash payment. To try to blame the government for lack of information is the apex of stupidity. Take responsibility for your own actions, as you supposedly ask others to do. And if you don't ahve enough information to make a good judgement, recognize that also.

And for crying out loud, ALL crop plants are genetically modified. When was the last time you saw wild corn, wild green beans, or wild cabbage. And watch out for the genetically modified house cat, because before humans spent centuries genetically modifiying it, it was a bobcat.

Tres Reed

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Ignorance and arrogance hand in hand again...

25.04.2007 21:55

"Glad all you comment-ers above think things through so thoroughly and have the time to slag others off from your armchairs."

I think it's safe to assume that if any of us intelligent people were to engage in the willful and illegal destruction of the property of others to try to make a point for a "cause," we would try to make sure we were actually destroying the right party's property....

"Go get a life/job/haircut (that's what if you lived here and hadn't just surfed in from fark.com you'd be saying to us)"

Most of us have jobs - at least jobs that keep us too busy to tear up some other poor sod's livelyhood in a spontaneous outburst of stupidity...

Common Sense Surrenders

I should point out...

25.04.2007 22:37

Hey, since people are complaining about them darned Americans with their opinions and their funny words, I thought I should point out (as a Canadian - we have even funnier words) that while I'm very critical of the way this incident was handled by Mutatoes, I actually do have concerns about GM crops.

People often dismiss the anti-GM movement as a neo-luddite sort of thing populated by aging hippies and the mindlessly trendy. Unfortunately, GM food crops (and GM crops growing near food crops) do bring with them a number of issues which it often seems that regulatory bodies do not wish to consider carefully. This has had consequences in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. As such, I think it's good that people are trying to do something about it, but this incident and its handling are not the way to either gain support from the public or encourage farmers to help you. If you're claiming to be acting on behalf of the people, then try to care about the people your actions affect.

Richard Estabrooks

mistakes were made

25.04.2007 23:04

If this is an apology, why isn't it on the mutatoes homepage? It does sound pretty insincere and makes the group look more like hooligans than concerned citizens.

If it is true that little damage was done to the pea crop that was planted in this field, what effect would the same protest have on the actual GM potato field? I would have to believe not much. Have you looked at legal ways of preventing the crops from being planted in the first place.

Your previous release said there were 150 people. Now there are 250. Were these different events?

Steve
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Lost for Words...

25.04.2007 23:14

I'm not entirely sure which aspect of this debate I should be more surprised by: the lack of responsibility on the part of the anti-GM-ers who vandalized a completely unrelated farmers' bean crop or the racially-charged (or should I say "nationally-charged") comments which - in typicaly internet fashion - ignore the content of the debate and skip directly to the baseless and elementary insults.

In America... on the West side of the pond... the individuals who consider people of differing nationality to be inferior due to their birth location are, in turn, considered to be the most ignorant of our populace. I'm guessing that most of you share the same perspective and that the few irrelevant comments in here are not typical... at least I hope it's true. I'm assuming the source of such responses are the European equivalent of our "rednecks".

As for the anti-GM-ers... while I respect expression of opinion and political stance I also expect those differing political stances to respect my own. The concept is multi-directional. The actions you have taken are not necessarily indicative of an invalid perspective, but are certainly indicative of a misguided leadership. You need to drive your point effectively in a way that isn't reminiscent of toilet-papering the wrong guys house. Actions like the ones you've taken will not further your plight or convince anyone that you have a genuine issue that should be closely examined.

RacismGalore

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The pro-GM industry?

25.04.2007 23:24

Wait, the mythical pro-GM industry, as an evil big business, uses its far reaching influence to inspire dozens of its goons to post on inane anti-GM websites? Do we get paid for this?

Jebus

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to "oh yes"

26.04.2007 01:08

"Glad we don't know the word asshat over this side of the big pond - and we only have to put up with you on t'internet. "

don't know that word? hrm.... what about "luddite"?

joe

To all FARK Posters

26.04.2007 07:26

something that all farmers have.

 http://www.nfumutual.co.uk/farmers/business-combined.htm

Fark off

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The killing fields

26.04.2007 08:43

Those who believe that GM is an invention of Satan are likely to believe that all Scientists are of that ilk. Those who see that Science is destroying the Earth's ability to support Life expect the mass butchery of Scientists to start soon. That is rather sad for those real scientists who were warning of the dangers of industrial development and the financial -military-industrial complex. .

There will be wider fallout. Anyone who helped! And that might include landowners. They now need full time Police protection. Satan is winning, with science bought onto His side God is beaten. The end of his Creation is nigh. Note the use of Capitals!

Someone copy to Blair.

Ilyan

Context

26.04.2007 09:25

Hi there…perhaps some context is required. To those who think that the intended action was vandalism or ‘stupid’ (planting organic potatoes), in the UK campaigners successfully used protest to force a moratorium on testing and planting GM crops. We don’t want them, you see, as they will destroy organic farming, which people do want, and may have unexpected effects on our food chain and/or health. And they are produced by big business trying to monopolise food. In this case, a German chemicals giant. People in the UK have a bit more sophisticated critique of business, food and capitalism than your average ‘funny’ site surfer. In the UK, an attempt was made to carry out ‘field-scale trials’ of GM crops, and every single field (as far as I know) was dug up or partially interfered with, rendering the ‘laboratory’ tests (i.e. using nature as an experiment) worthless. The field in this story is one of only two in which planting of GM crops is going ahead, because ther UK and Europe don’t want GM crops grown here and are willing to break the law to enforce that position. The ‘insult’ ‘luddite’ is indeed more apt than ‘asshat’, do you know what it means? It is a British term for people who were employed in the cloth industries and were being put out of work on a massive scale by the introduction of automatic machines by big business owners. They had a mythical leader called Ned Ludd and they smashed the machines, thus putting the progress of big business capitalism (destroying people’s livings for a ‘quick buck’) back a few months or years. They were defending their right to earn a wage by their skilled labour. Almost a right-wing libertarian position I’d say.

The Factfinder General

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Apparently "Sophisticated" means a different thing in the UK

26.04.2007 16:57

"People in the UK have a bit more sophisticated critique of business, food and capitalism than your average ‘funny’ site surfer"

Yes, anyone who has been to London knows just how "sophisticated" your tastes in food are *eye roll*

All this silly pretended snobbishness aside, the fact remains that in an effort to further your "cause" (that you probably don't even really have any understanding of to begin with), you destroyed an innocent farmer's organic crops. There's no justification for that. If you are too ignorant to understand how creating such ill will will cost you support, then you really shouldn't be going out and trying to play "grown up."

And if you think that just because he may have had insurance makes your wanton destruction of an innocent farmer's crops OK, then you certainly have no grounds to claim any sort of "sophisticated critique" of business or capitalism.

And that'ss without even going into your inability to know the difference between a potato plant and a bean plant, or your inability to read a map and organize your ignorant mobs. You'd be better off sticking to what you're better suited for - drunken football riots.

Common Sense Surrenders

Vandals and Criminals

26.04.2007 23:05

This article has been featured on several sites today. That is most likely the reason that you have been recieving negative comments regarding your protest. Most people who took the time to read your article are smart enought to realize that your lame attempts at justifying vigilante action only prove your unwillingness to participate in normal public discourse. Tresspassing, trampling the livelyhood of an innocent farmer, and generally making an ass of yourselves wasn't enough. Your actions betray a level of social ignorance that is staggering. Just because we disagree doesnt mean that I am a part of any larger organization or coordinated movement agaionst you. I am just a guy who was willing to give your opinion a shot. After having read your statements I find you and your organization completly devoid of accountablility and reason. Go Home. What if I chose to protest YOU and YOUR property....? Maybe trample YOUR livelyhood? Cost you alot of money? Think about it from a perspective other than your own.

Rob

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Not far enough!

27.04.2007 02:07

You whiners didn't go far enough!

If you wanted to send the right message you should have salted the fields, slaughtered all livestock, burned down all structures and beaten all inhabitants for a full 10 km around the area. Make sure you get the right field and EVERY OTHER FIELD around! Then you don't have to toss in a lame apology and all those near by deserve what they get for being nearby! Hell, while your at it maybe you should COMPLETELY destroy the agriculture of the country that even thinks of using General Motor's food. Maybe they will go back to making cars!

That'll fix em. We can get the chemical companies to synthesize some kind of food for us to eat.... like Soylent Green. Yummy

Sarcastic Much?

Well done the organisers

27.04.2007 18:17

Well done guys, this was a worthwhile action to do, even with the totally understandable mistake made. Don't listen to any of the stupid comments above.

I can't even begin to comment on some of what has been said above, but people's lack of radical thought processes and intelligence is quite staggering. I do just hope they are GM industry stooges, as anybody who thinks they are part of any radical eco-movement and holds the above views is a waste of oxygen.

Again, well done all who organised and attended.

A Nonny Mouse

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Sounds like a great idea!

27.04.2007 21:25

I bought some Mutatos on E-bay and they were great. Anything that is legal in the US must be good for you. I'm off over there to marry my horse next month.

419 Victim

great action

30.04.2007 07:18

yes, getting the wrong field is a mistake, but the fact that at the first time since the bayer pull out an dthe end of the last round of trials someone could organise and coordinate a national action is the very important to show them that we haven't gone away. As for the comments about not engaging in a a legitimate process well, if no one ohad pulled up the gm crops last time round then we wouldn't be able to have this debate because there woul already be cross contamination, and less certified organic farms.

ignore the trolls.

planter

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Chipper

07.05.2007 20:15

sad you feel you have to pull down any comments that do not agree with you. I guess you are not capable of hearing anything other than praise.
so how about
nice censoring?

Chipper

spuds r good

28.06.2007 20:08

Bit of a cock up getting the wrong field, but if I was the farmer in question I'd be pleased to have had people sow a field of organic spuds for me.

king edward

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