European lobby group invades Indian field trial
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Representatives of the European lobby group Greenpeace have invaded a field trial in India. Sponsored by the European Union, and funded by the government of the Netherlands, the activists struck a government-approved 1,440 sqm field trial of rice in Chinnakanjarla village of Medak district. No injuries were reported, nor any complaints lodged regarding India's territorial sovereignty.

According to an account in The Hindu, the activists held aloft placards of "Bayer, hands off our rice", planted scarecrows, and painted the words 'Bio Hazard' on the field. One of the activists, R. Jaikrishna, told the newspaper that GM rice 'was unsafe and the Bayer experiments would have a cascading effect, contaminating other non-GM rice grown nearby.'

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