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German biotech succumbs in activist onslaught
Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:04 pm
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The forces of ignorance continue to prevail in Germany, and to broaden their swath of destruction. Today, in what was once the cradle of modern science and philosophy, not a single farmer grows a modern biotech crop. No longer able to target farms, the activists have focused their barbaric attentions on research crops -- with six experiments destroyed so far this season, and much of the season remaining.

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture, with information provided by the German Plant Breeders Association (BDP), notes that there were 26 cases of field destructions and six cases of field occupations in 2008. In their fervor, the activists even destroyed several bee hives in the neighborhood of a biotech barley field of the University of Giessen.

In 2009, with literally no commercial biotech crops grown anywhere in Germany (unless they're being grown in secret), activists are concentrating their destructive work on research fields and research installations.

Already in April, the BDP warned that banning the commercial cultivation of GM maize would place research projects at risk -- and now, the activists have nowhere else to go.

"Every year, the militant opponents of biotechnology publicly renew their incitements to criminal activity. Ms. Aigner's imposition of a ban on commercial cultivation only puts wind in the sails of these opponents", said Karl-Friedrich Kaufmann, a spokesman for the Innovative Farmers' Working Group, at a press conference. "This has nothing to do with the rule of law, nor with the spirit of progress of a modern society."
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