Wheat harvest on the Palouse, IdahoWIKIMEDIA COMMONS,
The protests over genetically modified (GM) wheat at the United Kingdom’s Rothamsted Research center have been making headlines for the past several months, with protestors rallying on a regular basis. Scientists involved in the trial have been pleading with the public to allow the trial to continue as planned, and last week, a BBC news program hosted both parties, which debated the issue of whether the trial should proceed, coming to no clear resolution. Now, the commotion has come to a head, with one protestor damaging the fences and some of the “buffer zone” crops in an attempt to break into the experimental wheat field. The protestor was quickly arrested, with little damage caused to the test crop itself, Darren Hughes, head of communications at ...
