Stop The Crop

On March 28th a protest was held at a genetics test site near Edinburgh. The action was called by Fife Earth First! and took place a year to the day after 60 people openly pulled up a crop of genetically modified oil seed rape near Fife.

This time round the protest consisted of over 100 people who, after listening to a couple of speeches, proceeded to march to the field. Fifty police, with horses and dogs, had got there in advance, but 12 people managed to climb the perimeter fence and began pulling up the plants within. About one third of the crop was trashed, possibly invalidating the experiment.

Six people were arrested and charged with vandalism, one was also charged with theft of plant material.

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