15 Jun 2001
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Frontline: Activists destroy thousands of Round-up Ready peas in Idaho (ID, USA)

Frontline Information Service - News 6/15/01

Activists destroy thousands of Round-up Ready peas in Idaho
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 15, 2001

GENETIX ALERT NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Denny Henke
Cell: 901.438.9907 Office: 901.458.9907

Filer, ID - On June 10th, 2001 anti-biotech activists destroyed thousands of Round-up ready peas at Seminis research center. According to the communique "A bunch of us around here doing farming and trucking crops decided to find out anything we could about Seminis. And then the information we got made us take things into our own hands and go out into their field one night and rip out their pea plants."

The communique continues "These peas weren't normal. They had their genes changed to make the plants stay alive when sprayed with glyphosate herbicide. That's like the brand Roundup for people who don't know."

This anti-biotech action is the 5th of 2001. Since November 1998 there have been over 40 anti-genetic direct actions in North America. The direct actionists continue to maintain that biotechnology is completely unnecessary and is being developed at the expense of human and ecological health solely to increase the profits of large multinational corporations. With the North American growing season at hand it is likely that direct actions against facilities producing and testing genetically engineered organisms will resume.

The communique concludes "We hope this story will be interesting to people, especially people wondering what's going on right down the road from them. Why don't we take things into our own hands at this point and take out these crops?"

*Below is copy of the communique.

Begin Communique:

To Whom It May Concern at the Genetix Alert Press Office,

We came across your business on the internet. Can your service help get news out about what's happening here in Idaho:

There's a company called Seminis Vegetable Seeds in Filer and we would pass it's research center everyday. We started wondering what kind of research they were doing. There is a lot of agriculture around here but everything is bigger and bigger companies who don't say what's being grown or how.

A bunch of us around here doing farming and trucking crops decided to find out anything we could about Seminis. And then the information we got made us take things into our own hands and go out into their field one night and rip out their pea plants. The night was June 10 and we yanked out over 20 small plots of peas, It must have been thousands of plants. These peas weren't normal. They had their genes changed to make the plants stay alive when sprayed with glyphosate herbicide. That's like the brand Roundup for people who don't know.

The internet was how we looked up a lot of information. You can get addresses there and find out businesses have going on. We did a search and find Seminis's web site. We also went to the USDA, that's the US Dept. of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [APHIS] web site: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotechnology/permits.html . They do permitting for gene-modification research. If you click on "How Can I Check on an Application to Import, Move, or Field Test or a Petition to Deregulate? (Biotechnology Database)" you can find records about who's testing what kind of altered plants.

We found Seminis's permit # 01-065-01N # 321 for peas, saw the peas in their field and it went from there.

These gene-altered plants can cross-breed with regular plants and we don't know what they will do to people, animals, the soil, or anything. It was really easy work to take them out of the picture and didn't take very long, once we got used to the dark and relaxed into the work.

We hope this story will be interesting to people, especially people wondering what's going on right down the road from them. Why don't we take things into our own hands at this point and take out these crops?

Seminis's place is right on Highway 30, at the 2300 Rd. corner, next to the highschool.

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GenetiX Alert is an independent news center that works with other above-ground, anti-genetic engineering organizations. GA has no knowledge of the person(s) who carryout any underground actions. GA does not advocate illegal acts, but seeks to explain why people destroy genetically engineered crops and undertake other nonviolent actions aimed at resisting genetic engineering and increasing the difficulty for entities which seek to advance genetic engineering or its products. GA spokespeople are available for media interviews. An archive of anti-biotech direct actions can be found at http://tao.ca/~ban/ar.htm

Reporters and other interested parties may contact GenetiX Alert at:
cell phone: 901.438.9907
office phone: 901.458.9907
email: genetixalert@tao.ca
Web: http://tao.ca/~ban/gapo.htm
787 Ellsworth
Memphis, TN 38111 USA
contact: Denny Henke

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