GM protesters pick wrong field in bid to disrupt potato trial
The operation to sabotage the government's GM potato trial was planned with care and under conditions of great secrecy. Two hundred and fifty protesters swooped on the 16-hectare site outside Hull, armed with shovels and filled with indignation.
In less than an hour they had moved to invalidate the trial, planting thousands of organic potatoes. Mission accomplished. If only they had got the right field.
This bunch...
...attacked the wrong field in their campaign against GM crops (Mutatoes - geddit?)
Now I am certainly not sure that we need GM crops, I am tempted to think that the technology is more about making fat cat companies even fatter than any altruistic "save the world" motive as they would have us believe.
But really, these people make me think about planting Triffids in my garden - certainly they would have a higher IQ than the average "mutato".
Their excuse....
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).
.....ahhh, I see, you want to go and vandalise someone's field and you blame the authorities for not giving you a clear enough map....
and as the owner of the "wrong field" said...
"...The beans are just about peeping through. The protesters should have been able to see that," he said
Anyway I thought I'd help....in case they're confused again...
Beans...
Potatoes...
science protest mutatoes GM environment
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Sounds great to me
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