Earth First! Action Update
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EFAU 70 - August 2000Back to list of articles in this issue

Another One Bites The Dust...

Nine GM farm scale trials damaged or destroyed within the last three weeks. At the time of writing five of the twelve Spring oilseed rape sites and four of the twelve maize sites have been partially destroyed. These are:

Daviot in Scotland 15% of Spring Oilseed Rape (SOSR) destroyed, in 2 separate covert actions (Scotland’s only farmscale trial),

Hutton Magna, Yorkshire, (SOSR) covert action, no information has been passed on about the extent of the damage,

Chipping Campden Gloucester, (SOSR) covert action, 75% destroyed,

Hemel Hempstead, Herts (SOSR) covert action, 50 + % destroyed,

Kempley, Gloucester, (SOSR) covert action, 50 + % destroyed,

Over Compton, Dorset LL Chardon Maize, overt action at public rally, 7 arrests, one person detained, 15% destroyed (see report),

Wivenhoe, Essex, LL Chardon Maize, overt action at night, 11 arrests, 25 + % destroyed,

Headley Hall Farm, Yorkshire, LL Chardon Maize, covert action, 60+% destroyed,

IARC Rothamstead, Herts, LL Chardon Maize, covert action, 35+% destroyed

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