Over 50 Greenpeace volunteers dressed as panto cows invaded Sainsburys in Greenwich today to highlight the use of GM in animal feed by Sainsbury's - and therefore the Scary in the dairy.
Activists occupied the roof of the store, as well as locking onto the dairy desk. Cows also wondered around outside talking to the public and entertaining the police! A large inflatable milk bottle labelled, "GM MILK - Sold Here" was also inflated on the roof, and then later due to winds on the ground outside.
Noone was arrested, thought they almost froze.
This is the first in a series of actions planned by Greenpeace targetting Sainsburys. Sainsburys play a key role in how successful the commercialisation of GM miaze will be.
See www.greenpeace.org.uk for the full story plus photos.
Noone was arrested, thought they almost froze.
This is the first in a series of actions planned by Greenpeace targetting Sainsburys. Sainsburys play a key role in how successful the commercialisation of GM miaze will be.
See www.greenpeace.org.uk for the full story plus photos.
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Achived what ?
20.02.2004 17:56
"Highliting the issue" argument are you ?
Dave
Whats that under the bridge ?
20.02.2004 18:26
>(I'm a 100% organic farmer)
No you're not. You're a full time indymedia troll.
This is the 3rd article i've looked at so far today and in ALL THREE you've been trolling.
i wonder which article i should look at next.
Too the Greenpeace cows.... well done.
Most customers arent aware of how chummy lord Sainsbury is with "our Tony" - despite often claiming that he was against GM crops.
me'thinks he may be telling porkies.
Bubba
Bubba
Dave on The Bilderberg Group
20.02.2004 22:11
Bit like Monty Python without the humour , check out his profound views on the Bilderberg Group.
Perhaps he just lonely and needs some company wasn't there some other ex cop type on IMC a year or so ago. centurion, crusader no gladiator something like that .... no Harlequin , very similar style and almost identical opinion
To be honest dave, indymedia articles don’t really need comments, be good if more people added detail say like more links, better photo’s or what ever. But you don’t seem to go in for quoting your scource links..
sometimes to disprove a posting....
Bilderberg, by Dave
I can't believe you fell for it !
18.02.2004 12:32
I can't believe people are still falling for this spoof organisation and its sites that were put up some time ago. The Bilderberg Group was the creation of two students at the New York School of Journalism (Tom Waters and Ed Picket) as an experiment to see if people could be fooled and how that could be spread by the internet. It was featured in The Times and Guardian as recently as 2002.
OK believe it if you want to . . .
18.02.2004 18:00
Interesting this is exactly what the creators of the fictional "Bilderberg Group" predicted would happen. Rumour becomes fact through Internet repetition. The creation of spin off sites that "prove" what was simply made up. Picket wrote a paper for a Chicago newspaper where he estimated references to Bilderberg would be such that pictures would appear "proving" the attendence of key individuals.
It is also fun to see how the "key" figures have changes in the telling, for example it is now the Queen of the Netherlands providing the Royal interest in the original it was the King of Norway.
Perhaps in the internet we have created the ultimate Chinease Whisper full of self fullfiling theores which exist just because somebody so much wants them to be real.
Dave
KuT LuL
What's your worry
21.02.2004 13:43
Not interested in democratic debate ?
Unhappy to see wrong facts being pointed out ?
Never mind, you return to "activist" land, where marches take place, placards are painted
and authority figures are "called upon to ..." and damm all results.
So far three people have worked out who "Dave" is, I'm amazed you haven't.
Dave
Daves a farmer
21.02.2004 18:03
Fuck the farmers.
Kill the cows
Reclaim the fields
and turn up the techno
Danger
To Dave the Farmer
21.02.2004 22:07
Highlights of the customers response included the 500 people who signed our petition, many who recorded video messages to be given to Sainsbury's, several people who upon hearing our message immediately marched back into the store and demanded a refund on their milk. A child who insisted his mother buy a bag of organic salad to "feed the cows" was one of many who was delighted by our presence,
I'm sure there were probably a handful of customers who were annoyed at us, there always were, but I didn't see any, and I saw loads who were really pleased at what we were doing.
I'm sure that Sainbury's will crumble after a few more of these actions, and that will help eleminate any demand for GM Maize before it's even planted.
A Greenpeace Cow
Stupid bastard
23.02.2004 04:10
Farmer
Farmer Palmer get orf my laand
23.02.2004 12:12
[soothingly, while backing away] Yes, of course. Suuure it is.
Now get back to sniffing silage and buggering your relations, you mud-brained yokel fuck.
amused