This is informational only. Sierra Club does not engage in or support civil 
disobedience.

The Iowa connection: the target crop was the property of Pioneer Hi-Bred, a 
Johnston, Iowa-based corporation which is a subsidiary of DuPont.
Tom
Sent to Sierra Club Iowa Topics list, and Bcc'd to members of the Sierra Club 
national Genetic Engineering Committee.


Subj:   GMW: French Farmer On Trial For Destroying GMOs 
Date:   9/20/2005 8:54:06 AM Central Daylight Time  
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Bove, as a repeat offender, faces a 10-year prison term and EUR150,000 
fine... The eight other defendants each face five years in prison and a EUR75,000 
fine. The trial ends Wednesday. 
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Militant French Farmer On Trial For Destroying GMO Crop
Agence France Press, 20 September 2005
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=9676 

TOULOUSE, France (AP)--France's best-known farmer, Jose Bove, was greeted by 
applause Tuesday as he and eight others entered a courthouse to stand trial 
for ripping up a field of genetically modified corn. 
  
Bove and the other defendants, including Green Party lawmaker Noel Mamere, 
face prison terms and fines if convicted of uprooting a crop in July 2004 that 
belonged to U.S. seed company which is a subsidiary of E.I. DuPont de Nemours & 
Co. (DD). 
  
Dozens of supporters, some in masks, greeted the defendants at the courthouse 
in the southern city of Toulouse, vowing to continue their mission. 
  
Bove, as a repeat offender, faces a 10-year prison term and EUR150,000 fine. 
The mustachioed sheep farmer served just over a month in prison in 2003 for 
destroying a field of GMO corn and rice crops. He is most famous for ransacking 
a McDonald's (MCD) restaurant in 1999 that was under construction in southern 
France. 
  
The eight other defendants each face five years in prison and a EUR75,000 
fine. The trial ends Wednesday. 
  
The crop they attacked in the town of Menville belonged to Pioneer Hi-Bred 
International Inc., based in Johnston, Iowa. At the time Bove called it an act 
of "civil disobedience" and said others would follow. 


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