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<i>Source and more information (only in Dutch): <a href="http://www.aardappelziekte.be" target="_blank">www.aardappelziekte.be</a></i></p> | <i>Source and more information (only in Dutch): <a href="http://www.aardappelziekte.be" target="_blank">www.aardappelziekte.be</a></i></p> | ||
- | <p>This announcement was the beginning of a huge protest wave that is still going on. The <a href="http://www.fieldliberation.org/?lang=en" target="_blank">Field Liberation Movement</a>, introducing themselves as “a loose collective of concerned citizens from Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia, that wants to keep their country free from GMO crops in open fields”, announced the Big Potato Swap at 29th of May 2011. This was planned to be a ludic demonstration and nonviolent action, in which an alternative would be planted: potatoes who achieved resistance by cross breeding instead of by synthetic biology. In order to prevent activists from entering the field, many police officers were present that day, and eventually the action turned out in a violent confrontation between police and activists. Many people were arrested and there prosecution has not yet come to a conclusion. To see a video | + | <p>This announcement was the beginning of a huge protest wave that is still going on. The <a href="http://www.fieldliberation.org/?lang=en" target="_blank">Field Liberation Movement</a>, introducing themselves as “a loose collective of concerned citizens from Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia, that wants to keep their country free from GMO crops in open fields”, announced the Big Potato Swap at 29th of May 2011. This was planned to be a ludic demonstration and nonviolent action, in which an alternative would be planted: potatoes who achieved resistance by cross breeding instead of by synthetic biology. In order to prevent activists from entering the field, many police officers were present that day, and eventually the action turned out in a violent confrontation between police and activists. Many people were arrested and there prosecution has not yet come to a conclusion. To see a video about the event that was aired on the national news, <a href="http://www.deredactie.be/permalink/1.1034891" target="_blank">click here</a> (Dutch). </p> |
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