A Security Guard Trying to Remove Greenpeace Volunteers from Cargo Ship

A security guard trying to remove Greenpeace volunteers from the deck of cargo ship 'Saturn V', that is loading GM Soya before transporting it to South Korea, Rio Grande, Brazil. One of the activists holding a banner that reads: 'Biosafety Inspection' in Portuguese. The ship does not have the required documentation about its cargo of soya in accordance with national law and the Cartagena Protocol. Greenpeace Volunteers tried to obtain a sample of the cargo, and then painted 'Transgenicos" and 'GMO' on the side of the ship to label its cargo.

Unique identifier: GP0PR

Type: Image

Shoot date: 20/04/2004

Locations: Brazil, Rio Grande (Brazil), South America

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert

Size: 1771px × 1181px 277KB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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MV Arctic Sunrise GE Tour in Brazil

The Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise and the Biosafety Inspection is part of the tour "Brazil melhor sem transgênicos" (Brazil is better without GE food crops). All over the world, GE industry is attempting to contaminate the non-GE supply. Commercial growing of GE soya was illegal in Brazil until last year, when the Lula Government caved in to demand from Monsanto and farmers in Rio Grande do Sul who had been using Monsanto's GE soya seeds smuggled across from Argentina. The first legal harvest of GE soya is now ready and is about to enter Brazil's food chain and be exported overseas. The MV Arctic Sunrise (MVAS) GE soya tour aims to defend consumers' and farmers' rights to choose non-GE, and to expose the risk of GE soya.

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