WALES DEFIES BRITISH GOVERNMENT WITH GM CROP BAN
May 24, 2000
Reuters

LONDON -- The Welsh assembly, according to this story, put itself on a
collision course with Britain's government over genetically modified (GM)
crops on Wednesday by voting unanimously for a ban throughout Wales.
The 54-0 ballot came despite a crop of GM maize already planted in
Flintshire that London has said it will not destroy.

The story goes on to add that about 20 environmentalists closed down
Britain's Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday with a protest against the GM
plantings that sparked fury in Europe.

The activists chained themselves together with bicycle locks in the lobby of
the ministry's London headquarters, demanding the destruction of GM oilseed
crops and compensation to farmers unwittingly sold the seeds by Advanta.