GM protester with a grave message

[hedgetrimmer]

link: http://www.news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1077352003

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JOHN ROSS


AN ORGANIC farm worker is cycling from the Highlands to London this week, towing a 5ft, plywood coffin for the entire 700-mile journey.

Jonny Barton, 31, will set off on Wednesday from Munlochy in the Black Isle to take part in a national protest against genetically modified crops in London on 13 October.

Mr Barton built a coffin to represent the death of organic farming. He fears this will happen if GM crops are allowed to be commercially grown in the United Kingdom.

He said: "Commercialising GM crop-growing would be the last nail in the coffin for consumers’ choice to eat GM-free food, as well as a further body-blow to our precious environment. GM presents a great risk to our delicate eco-system and I am worried about the potential damage to the environment in an irreversible way, as well as possible harm to humans eating this stuff.

[shirlden]

1. Ride, Jonny, ride....

You see, my fellow Duers, people all over the world are doing their best to stop the rape of our planet.

Let's cheer him on......

:toast:

[Soloflecks]

2. Another lesson in hindsight waiting for us.

If there's a flaw in their creation which leads to crop failure and they've let it escape into the "wild", then we starve. There is no way to prevent these GM crops from taking over.

[JPace]

3. "GM protester with a grave message"

I hope he gets media coverage....what an
admiral thing to do. Our food is becoming
so unsafe because of tampering by big
business. They are going to change the name
of radiated food to "Cold Pasteurization"
to make it more acceptable to people.

Its all in the wording isn't it?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. IMHO

The greatest danger of GM lies in Intellectual Property, not chemical/health/environment factors.

You buy soy beans at the grocer. You plant them in your own property. Now you're a soybean producer, and no one can stop you.

You buy GM soy beans at the grocer. Either

(a) You plant them in your own property. Now you're infringing on Monsanto's/whoever's patent, and they go RIAA on you*; or

(b) They're sterile. You have to buy seeds from Monsanto/whoever if you want to plant, under $DEITY knows what terms.

This is the way big corps get to control food the way Microsoft controls software. Worried yet?

* I read somewhere GM seed makers sue farmers for growing "their" species even if it is accidental, re: some seeds spill from one land to a neighboring one. Links?