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Port of Lorient: Operation Anti-GM

One hundred anti-GMO activists have destroyed a cargo of transgenic soybean import the port of Lorient, to denounce the presence in the food chain of a product they consider "toxic"

By the Krystell VeillardPublié 23/11/2012 | 11:02, updated on 23/11/2012 | 2:32 p.m.

© France 3 Bretagne anti-GMO activists to storm the gates of the port of Lorient

They were a hundred, dressed in white overalls and are mounted on top of a silo before pouring the castor oil on soybeans to make it unusable. One hundred anti-GMO activists have destroyed and today the port of Lorient on a cargo of transgenic soybean import to denounce the presence in the food chain of a product they consider "toxic". "We need food producers for livestock using GM soy realize that this is a toxic product," said Jean-François Roux, one of the anti-GMO activists.

Mr. Roux referred to the recent study by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini on rats to denounce "massively imported pesticide plant in Europe." The activists, who are baptized Reapers volunteers, requiring suspension of imports of GM soya - mainly from South America - the labeling of transgenic products and relocation of oilseed crops in Europe.

Police surrounded the scene, ready to intervene.