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Getting Corny: Environmentalists Seek 'Agricultural Asylum'
MADRID — Environmentalists dressed as giant ears of corn Tuesday asked for "agricultural asylum" in the French embassy in Madrid in a protest over genetically modified crops.
Environmentalist rallying against genetically-modified corn. (AFP image) The environmental
organisation Friends of the Earth organised the symbolic act to protest
Spain's "large-scale" production of genetically modified corn, which is
banned in France.
Around 20 protesters from several European countries and dressed as corn cobs demonstrated outside the French embassy in central Madrid.
They handed over a petition to one of the diplomats, saying they would "rather flee to France than be genetically modified."
"We want to condemn the fact that Spain is the only country in Europe to grow genetically modified corn, without any measures to protect against contamination" of the crop with non-GM corn, a spokeswoman for Friends of the Earth said.
Several European countries, including France and Germany, have invoked an EU safeguard procedure to bar a strain of genetically modified corn produced by US agricultural giant Monsanto, after a watchdog said it had doubts about the product.
GM crops are a fiercely contested issue in Europe, pitting agribusiness corporations against a powerful green lobby.
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Show Allanyone who wants to understand the rockefeller plan for world domination through control of oil and food (which they have completed by the way) should read this book:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/books/SoD.html
now i know americans don't like to read - but that's thanks to your rockefeller education - you betcha - but the full realized plan is laid out
"This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. "Control the food and you control the people."
This is no ordinary book about the perils of GMO. Engdahl takes the reader inside the corridors of power, into the backrooms of the science labs, behind closed doors in the corporate boardrooms.
The author cogently reveals a diabolical World of profit-driven political intrigue, government corruption and coercion, where genetic manipulation and the patenting of life forms are used to gain worldwide control over food production. If the book often reads as a crime story, that should come as no surprise. For that is what it is.
Engdahl's carefully argued critique goes far beyond the familiar controversies surrounding the practice of genetic modification as a scientific technique. The book is an eye-opener, a must-read for all those committed to the causes of social justice and World peace."