Over 150 people, including families with children, held a peaceful demonstration at the Governments Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) yesterday [Wednesday].
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They were Calling for no commercial growing of GM crops and an end to GM crop trials, they left large bags of GM crops from trial sites around Britain blocking the entrance of the government department’s building.
The demonstratros from all over England, Scotland and Wales carried banners, flags and placards reading “No to GM crop cmmercialisation”, “We want to be GM free”. Children wore bumblebee costumes and bag pipers played in a carnival spirit. Communities in Scarborough delivered 500 sticks of rock with their message “Scarborough Rock Solid Against GM”.
The director of communications at Defra, Lucian Hudson, accepted the demonstrators letters and petitions at the buildings entrance.
Matthew Herbert, one of the demonstrators, said: “For five years nonviolent direct activists have been holding back the tide of GM crops, and defending the environment and our democracy against corporate greed. Now the government needs to make a choice. Are they going to bow to the corporate agenda and commercialise GM crops? Or are they going to listen to the people and abandon GM in favour of truly sustainable alternatives?”
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