GMO-Free Mindoro Action

Greenpeace activists and corn farmers from the province of Mindoro, south of Manila, uproot a plantation of genetically engineered (GE) BT Corn and deliver it in ten sealed drums to the gates of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City. The activists and farmers, accompanied by Mindoro agriculture officials, demonstrated peacefully outside the DA compound. They called on the DA to uphold the Oriental Mindoro ban on GMOs approved last June 2004 and to stop collaborating with bio-tech companies who aggressively market GMO crops, even in provinces where they are banned.