Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 73 - February 2001Back to list of articles in this issue

Cremate Monsanto Continues!

On Jan 3rd farmers destroyed a GM Cotton crop in Savalanga, India. Volunteers of the newly-formed Hasiru Sene (Green Brigade), the youth wing of the Karnataka State Farmers’ Association (KRRS), rushed to the field, uprooted the Bt cotton crop and then set it on fire.

The KRRS has been waging a battle to stop the application of the biotechnology to agriculture on the plea it is harmful to the environment and does incalculable damage to traditional and indigenous agricultural methods.

Contact swamy.krrs@vsnl.com and krrs_123@yahoo.com