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Biofools day: Cargill factory blocked in Ghent (Belgium)

imc -ovl | 17.04.2008 13:03 | Bio-technology | World

This morning thirty activist of "agrocrisis" blocked the gates of the Cargill factory in Ghent (Belgium). Several activist are chained to the main gate blocking entrance to trucks.

According to An Maeyens, agrocrisis spokesperson, this actions means a one day block from transit. but above all a support to the struggle of thousands of small scale farmers, who are depraved of land and income and forced to migrate to slums near big cities, living in poverty, all because of the activities of big companies such as Cargill in their country,

UPDATE: cargill in the port of Ghent is completly blocked, police agreed nog to intervene.

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  1. english press release — agrocrisis group