Just a reminder: GMO stands for "genetically modified organism." Genetic modification is the same as genetic engineering, which means altering the DNA of an organism (a living thing) in ways that are impossible using conventional breeding methods. Examples of genetic engineering include placing a gene from a fish in a strawberry plant, and placing human genes in a cow. Genetic engineering, therefore, is genetic damage, deliberately inflicted.
Tom


Subj: GMW: Bove and French MEP jailed for destroying GM crops
Date: 11/15/2005 1:46:04 PM Central Standard Time
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Militant French farmer sentenced to prison for ripping up GMO crop
Associated Press, Nov 15 2005
http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=4121235&nav=7k7NJ1IJ

TOULOUSE, France France's highest-profile farmer and a Green Party lawmaker were among those sentenced to prison terms today for destroying a field of genetically modified corn planted by an Iowa company in southern France.

Jose Bove, a farmer turned anti-globalization activist, was sentenced to four months in prison.

It was for his role in uprooting a field that belonged to Pioneer Hi-Bred International. The company is based in Johnston.

Bove stood trial in September with eight others, including a Green Party lawmaker and a French member of the European Parliament, both of whom received three-month sentences.

Five other defendants were handed two-month suspended sentences.

The group attacked a G-M-O crop on July 25th, 2004 in the town of Menville. The field, near the southern city of Toulouse, belonged to Pioneer, a subsidiary of Dupont.

Bove and others called the act one of civil disobedience.

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French activist jailed
News 24, 15/11/2005
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1834787,00.html

Toulouse - French anti-globalisation activist, Jose Bove, has been found guilty of destroying genetically modified (GM) crops.

Bove was sentenced to four months by an appeals court on Tuesday.

Bove has become a cult figure within the anti-globalisation movement.

He was accused of helping to uproot a field of GM maize near the southwestern French city of Toulouse in July 2004.






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