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1. a week of anti-GM actions: 5th-10th March
2. url for pics from the recent Basingstoke action
3. Eight held over GM supermarket protest
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1. a week of anti-GM actions  5th-10th March

From 5th-10th March there will be a week of anti-GM actions and events in Liverpool, home to a feed-processing mill of one of the major players in the GM industry. Cargill controls the food supply chain from beginning to end, selling their seeds to farmers, processing the produce into animal feed, shipping the feed abroad to be fed to poultry, cooking and packaging the poultry and then finally selling it onto supermarkets or fast-food chains. For more information on the week of action contact 0160 226 6814. {from GenetiX Update, PO Box 77, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5ZJ, 01803 840098]
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2. url for pics from the recent Basingstoke action

couple of images courtesy of Hugh Warwick from the Basingstoke action against Sainsbury's. The closure of the Sainsbury depot there lead to four arrests for aggravated trespass. All four later released: http://members.tripod.com/~ngin/ukaction.htm
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3. Eight held over GM supermarket protest
Ananova

Environmental activists dressed as cows have blockaded Sainsbury's depots in a protest over the sale of meat and dairy products raised on genetically modified animal feed.  Demonstrators from a range of action groups chained themselves to lorries at five of the supermarket's distribution centres.  Four people were arrested for aggravated trespass in Stone, Staffordshire, after attaching themselves to the underside of a refrigerated truck, police said.  The depot was blocked for three hours as the demonstrators, one of whom was locked to the engine block, were cut free.  At the Basingstoke depot in Hampshire activists in cow outfits stopped vehicles from entering or leaving for two hours by chaining themselves to a lorry as it left a driveway.  Four people, two men and two women, were later arrested for aggravated trespassing and breaking the peace, Hampshire Police said.  Other protests were also taking place at East Kilbride, near Glasgow, Maidstone, Kent, and Elstree, near Borehamwood, north London.  A Sainsbury's spokeswoman said several lorries had been stopped.

Last updated: 18:09 Thursday 22nd February 2001