Monday, May 21, 2012

United Kingdom: Farmer charged with criminal damage at GM crop trial site

Guardian: A man has been charged with criminal damage to property at a research station housing a field trial of genetically modified wheat, according to Hertfordshire police. Hector Christie, 50, from Tapeley Park Lodge, Instow, in north Devon, was bailed to appear before central magistrates court on 13 July after allegedly vandalising the trial and surrounding property at the government-funded crop institute, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden. Christie, an old Etonian organic farmer who has campaigned...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/21/farmer-charged-damage-gm-crop
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