{"id":1122,"date":"2013-03-12T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hookedonraw.com\/?page_id=1122"},"modified":"2014-07-28T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:04:58","slug":"800-protesters-uproot-bt-corn-in-mindanao","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hookedonraw.com\/?page_id=1122","title":{"rendered":"800 Protesters Uproot BT Corn in Mindanao"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\n\nMASIPAG NEWS & VIEWS\n\n(MASIPAG is an indigenous alliance of Farmers and\n\nScientists fighting GM crops in the Philippines)\n\n800 PROTESTERS UPROOT BT-CORN IN MINDANAO<\/strong><\/p>\n

About 800 farmers, church people, students and other members of the civil society group bravely stormed Monsanto’s experimental field in southern Philippines uprooting all Bt-Corn plants this morning (Aug 29, 2001).<\/p>\n

The “operation bunot (uproot)” took only five to 10 minutes leaving two police officers helpless. No untoward incident happened.<\/p>\n

“Faster! Faster!” were the shouts as the protesters hurriedly uprooted the genetically engineered corn in the 1,700-square meter experimental field of Monsanto’s Agroseed in Maltana village, Tamapakan town of South Cotabato province, Mindanao.<\/p>\n

Around 100 indigenous Lumads also took part in the protest action, the first of its kind in the country’s history of GMO protest.<\/p>\n

Agroseed is currently conducting a multilocation open-field testing of Bt-Corn in around 30 sites in Luzon and Mindanao amid cries of protests from various sectors in the country.<\/p>\n

In 1999, Monsanto ignored multisectoral opposition, including a series of City Council resolutions, in General Santos City in Mindanao and pushed through with the first open-field experiments of genetically engineered crop in the country.<\/p>\n

Bt-Corn contains gene from soil bacterium bacillus thuringiensis, a toxin that makes this transgenic crop produce its own insecticide to beat off corn borer.<\/p>\n

{MASIPAG News &Views is an occasional information release of the Farmer Scientist Partnership for Development. This report, in whole or in part, could be freely published}<\/p>\n

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