Cargill Debacle

On the 19th of February a group of 35 activists occupied part of a massive seed oil processing plant in central Hull for 4 hours, owned by Cargill, a multinational, which despite being family owned, is involved in 60% of the world grain trade. It is also heavily connected to the biotech industry due to undertake joint operations with Monsanto. It deserves to be better known, seeing its name dragged through the mud with Monsanto, Novartis etc. till they all grind to a halt.

After a bleary briefing people arrived unhindered on the site at 9am and split into four groups, occupying a silo and a tower, blockading a lorry in the grain loading bay (meaning no other lorries could load up that day) and staging a protest outside the gate. Mysterious plain clothes police 'negotiators' turned up to mediate between the different group s of protestors and Cargills 96 they seemed friendly enough, no arrests were made and the protestors left at 1pm as planned.

Contact: Hull on Earth.