Mass anger at Biotech Giants expressed as 500 protestors from the stop the crop rally, trashed 24 acres of gentically modified Spring Oilseed Rape.

The day started off in joyous sunshine with about 700 people meeting in a field, ownd by a friendly local farmer, opposite the test site. 600 white decontamination suits with dust masks were handed out, and all were donned.

People of al ages and backgrounds, from activists through families to grannies, lounged around in the sun, visited the displays, fed from the great array of catering supplied by Veegies and Eco Trip and listened to the speeches.

There were speeches covering all angles of genetix, from Food Helath and damage to the enviroment, to the attacks on small scale peasant farming and damage to the organic sector.

A lot of details were revealed as to the scientific inadequacy of this farm size experiment, one of seven set up the government to "investigate potential damage to the enviroment caused by a farm sized field of GMO"

This was the governments response to the anger expressed on the deliberate release into the enviroment of genetically modified crops grown on experimental trials to investigate the commercial potential of these crops. These experiments are however are just another step in the legitimisng process of GMO's. Another step towards commercialisation.

This supposedly rigiid scientific experiment is flawed in some very basic ways. They have never done a baseline study to check what wildlife is already present in the area to compare the results to. They are only checking levels of insect life and not soil microbiology, or mammal life in the area. The half of the field with the GMO in has trees in the middle, which are pockets of wildlife havens and will increase the wildlife relative to the other half, the control crop.

Apart from all these flaws, the biigest problem is that these experiments need to occur in closed enviroments, and not out where the damage can occur.

So a crowd of inspired and very fired up people, left the rally site and marched over the road to surround the crop. Once the crowd got so close to the crop, a mutual decision occure. The crop had to go.

Depite hte press reports this action was not just the whim of some extremist minority in the group, virtually everyone at the rally decided to enter the field and start decontaminating the crop. A great mix of people danced, rolled, scythed, pulled and played throughout the field for about two hours with minnimum interference fom the police.

This is the second farm size trial to be decontaminated so far, the first one having been destroyed by the farmer who planted it. There is only one oilseed rape site left in the country, located at Boothby Graffoe in Lincolnshire....

..... A local Mansanto owned gentically modified Sugar Beet testsite, at Ruddington south of the city, has recently been decontaminated by the Fishnet Fairies. This site was subject to a rally organised by Ken Cotes and Friends of the Earth which highlighted its existance. leaving only Meden Vale's, near Mansfield, two site, one sugar beet and one oil seed rape left in Nottinghamshire. Their grid references are SK 59 70 and SK 588 704.

For a copy of the Garderner's guide to Surivival in the Modern World, prince Charle's own DIY guide to trashing test sites, pop into the Rainbow Centre.