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Genetically Modified Food - News
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14 October 2004 - GM protesters win three-year court battle (Highland News, UK)
4 October 2004 - Bourgogne GM fields decontaminated
1 September 2004 - Destruction of the only experimental crop of genetically modified coffee (AFP)
14 August 2004 - "Voluntary reapers" tear up a GM field in the Loiret, France
25 July 2004 - Protesters destroy French GM crop (BBC News)
20 July 2004 - Dutch Activists Destroy Gen-Tech Potatoes (AP)
24 June 2004 - Protesters fell Finland's only GM tree study (Reuters)
2 March 2004 - Extreme measures (Guardian, UK)
27 September 2003 - Pull together ... protesters vow to root out GM crops (Guardian, UK)
1 July 2003 - GM activists destroy crops (Reading Chronicle, UK) - Jealott's Hill
29 June 2003 - Protesters wreck GM crops (BBC News) - Jealott's Hill
9 June 2003 - Campaigners vow to destroy all GM crops (Western Morning News)
18 May 2003 - Protesters cut down crop (BBC News)
13 May 2003 - Test crops slashed by anti-GM activists (Aberdeen P&J)
7 May 2003 - GM Trial destroyed at 11th hour (ELF)
7 April 2003 - Group destroys GM crop trial (Yorkshire Evening Post)
1 April 2003 - Protesters claim actions justified (BBC News)
31 March 2003 - Women deny wrecking GM crop (BBC News)
31 March 2003 - GM trial attracts protest (BBC News)
31 March 2003 - Jury trial of GM-free Wales crop pullers
29 March 2003 - GM protest trio win their appeal (The Scotsman) - Munlochy
9 March 2003 - Crop protesters are convicted of trespass (Aberdeen P&J) - Munlochy
7 March 2003 - Littlemoor Four Acquitted at Sherborne Magistrates Court (PC) - Littlemoor
7 January 2003 - GM protest charges dropped (BBC News) - Wivenhoe
25 October 2002 - Protesters Defiant After Court Hands Down Fines For GM Crop Attacks (Aberdeen Press & Journal, UK) - Munlochy, Black Isle
19 August 2002 - Fourteen arrested trying to decontaminate illegal GM trial site in Dorset (ToGG) - Hilton, Dorset
19 August 2002 - Four fields of GM crops destroyed (Glasgow Herald) - Munlochy
18 August 2002 - Twenty GM protestors arrested at Aventis site in Hilton, Dorset, UK (FoE) - Hilton, Dorset
3 June 2002 - Pink Castle Protestors Charged (Pink Castle) - Littlemoor, Dorset
7 May 2002 - Three arrested as protesters destroy GM crops (The Scotsman) - Munlochy, Black Isle
6 May 2002 - Three arrested over GM raids (BBC News) - Munlochy, Black Isle
28 April 2002 - Third attack on GM crop site (BBC News) - Munlochy, Black Isle
28 April 2002 - Five arrests in second attack on GM crops (The Scotsman) - Munlochy, Black Isle
27 April 2002 - Second attack on GM crop site (BBC News) - Munlochy, Black Isle
21 April 2002 - Controversial GM crop trial destroyed (PA News) - Munlochy, Black Isle
21 April 2002 - GM crops vandalised (BBC News) - Munlochy, Black Isle
28 March 2002 - Freedom for jailed GM crop protester (BBC News) - Munlochy, Black Isle
9 March 2002 - Five arrested at GM crop protest (BBC News) - Long Marston
17 October 2001 - GM crop protesters cleared in high court test case (Guardian, UK)
16 October 2001 - Judgment makes prosecution for pulling up GM crops harder (Genetix Snowball)
16 October 2001 - GM protesters win legal challenge (Reuters)
16 October 2001 - GM protesters win GM crop test case ruling (PA News)
16 October 2001 - Call for new laws after GM ruling (Agnet)
24 August 2001 - GM protesters in court (BBC News)
14 July 2001 - Eight arrests at GM crop protest (BBC News)
28 June 2001 - Court victories for GM crop rebels put CPS on the spot (Guardian UK)
27 June 2001 - GM protesters cleared (BBC News)
13 June 2001 - Magistrates acquit GM crop protesters (Guardian, UK)
12 June 2001 - Court Case Against GM Crop Protesters Thrown Out (PA News)
21 September 2000 - Protesters' green light to sabotage the GM crop trials (Daily Mail UK)
21 September 2000 - Farm trials in jeopardy after verdict (Guardian UK)
21 September 2000 - Greenpeace GM crop attack declared legal (Independent UK)
20 September 2000 - The tale of two trials (BBC News)
20 September 2000 - GM protestors cleared of criminal damage charges (BBC News)
20 September 2000 - Twenty-eight Greenpeace volunteers acquitted of criminal damage (Greenpeace) - Lyng, Norfolk
16 July 2000 - GM protestors invade field (BBC News) - Over Compton
5 April 2000 - Melchett's duty to harm GM crops (BBC News)
8 November 1999 - Genetix Snowball court case (Genetix Snowball UK) - Watlington, Oxfordshire
20 September 1999 - Green campaigners plead not guilty to damaging GM crop (PA News) - Lyng, Norfolk
20 September 1999 - GM protesters plead not guilty (BBC News) - Lyng, Norfolk
15 August 1999 - GM police to guard crop trials (Independent UK)
1 August 1999 - Today's vandal will be tomorrow's hero (Independent UK)
1 August 1999 - GM crop protesters arrested (BBC News) - Spital in the Street, Lincolnshire
31 July 1999 - Modified Crop Protesters Arrested (AP) - Spital in the Street, Lincolnshire
29 July 1999 - No regrets over GM protest - Melchett (BBC News) - Lyng, Norfolk
29 July 1999 - GM crop attack hits 'vital research' (BBC News)
28 July 1999 - GM crops get police protection (BBC News)
27 July 1999 - Lord Melchett refused bail (BBC News) - Lyng, Norfolk
27 July 1999 - Court appearances after GM protest (BBC News) - Lyng, Norfolk
26 July 1999 - Greenpeace Lord arrested at GM trashing (Farmers Weekly) - Lyng, Norfolk
26 July 1999 - GM crop destroyed in green protest (BBC News) - Lyng, Norfolk
26 July 1999 - Greenpeace chief among 30 arrested for destroying crop trial (CNN) - Lyng, Norfolk
19 July 1999 - Protesters trample field after peaceful demo (Guardian UK) - Watlington, Oxfordshire
18 July 1999 - Eco-Warriors Stop the GM Crop (Mike Addelman) - Watlington, Oxfordshire
18 July 1999 - Watlington Report (Keith Parkins) - Watlington, Oxfordshire
18 July 1999 - Protestors rip up GM crops (BBC News) - Watlington, Oxfordshire
12 July 1999 - UK's only GM trees destroyed by activists (GEN Press Release) - Bracknell, Berkshire
27 May 1999 - Firm ditches GM trials after attacks (BBC News)
4 July 1998 - Women arrested in crop protest (BBC News) - Watlington, Oxfordshire