Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 75 - April/May 2001Back to list of articles in this issue

Our Food Our Future

In response to the exclusivity of the ‘Agriculture 2020’ conference (£300 a ticket) hosted by the John Innes Centre Norwich (April 18th-20th), a group of ‘up for a party’ anti-GM activists held their ‘everyone invited’ bash at the Sainsbury Centre. This happened on the very same evening as 120 ‘Ag 2020’ delegates held their swanky meal. Around 40 people drummed, whistled, and danced beside a large window (40x100ft) just feet away from the dinners who tried hard to ignore the outside antics. A 40x15ft “Our Food Our Future” banner unfurled itself from the top of the window which seemed to strengthen their resolve to ignore the demo. Though after nearly two hours of dancing and message writing some did eventually crack and acknowledged that the outside party was considerably better than their own.

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