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Harvest season is in full swing for genetic test sites ' As far as we know there have been around 46 test sites fully or partly destroyed so far this season, at least a third of the total number planted.

Apart from the farm scale trials and the poplar trees reported elsewhere in the Action Update, actions have taken place recently at three sites in Scotland (Edinburgh and Aberdeenshire), three sites in Lincolnshire, three in Norfolk (including Greenpeace's motorised assault on a farm scale maize site), a genetiX snowball action in Hertfordshire, and one in Yorkshire. International resistance is also catching on. Two groups ' the Lopi Loppers and the Cropitistas ' destroyed commercial corn crops in California at the end of July, claiming solidarity with British and Indian activists, while in France several test sites have been attacked.

Report any similar actions to the Genetic Engineering Network: 0181 374 9516.