Take the Flour Back on Newsnight
GM crops mass action protest 27 May 2012 - Take the flour back (Ch4 News www.youtube.com Activists from Take the Flour Back are threatening "mass action", & destruction of the GM trial on Sunday 27 May 2012 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. For the first time, a television debate, broadcast live on BBC2 Newsnight on Thursday (17 May), gave farming leaders for and against the trial the opportunity to put forward their cases. Anti-GM campaigners During the live debate, which included some heated exchanges of opinions, Dorset farmer Jyoti Fernandes, who was representing Take the Flour Back, was repeatedly asked whether activists would carry out their threats to trash the crop. But she refused to give scientists from Rothamsted any assurances that their experimental trial of Cadenza wheat, which has been genetically engineered to repel aphids, would not be pulled up.
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