anti-Bayer action

On Thursday 11th December half a dozen Lancastrians made their way to a pesticide manufacturing site in Widnes to protest against Bayer's involvement in GM crops. Some of them entered the building, whilst others help up banners, made lots of noise and leafletted the staff car park. Work was disrupted for two and a half hours, as staff locked themselves into their offices and site security barricaded the gates against the protestors. People inside the building eventually got to discuss Bayer's GM involvement with the site manager and demanded that Bayer pull out of GM now.

Bayer Cropscience own all the varieties set to become Britain's first commercial GM crops. It is the primary company set to profit from the wide-scale introduction of GM crops into our environment and our food-chain. Stop Bayer GM Crops is a nation-wide campaign with the aim to force bayer to pull out of GM. As part of this over 30 actions against Bayer have already taken place in the last 3 months all over the country.

Bayer is certainly feeling the pressure - in September they announced that they would not run any further field trials of GM crops in the UK - because 'they always get vandalised'. However they are still set on forcing GM down our throats. Keep up the pressure and get involved - find out more at  http://www.stopbayergm.org