Global GMO protests are on the rise

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Global GMO protests are on the rise

by Shawn Schuster (Subscribe to Shawn Schuster's posts)
Aug 5th 2008 @ 6:02PM

Filed under: Food, Health, Activism

When you're enthusiastic about your beliefs, you want to make sure the world knows about it. Sometimes though, people just take it too far. In Great Britain, the opposition to genetically-modified crops is on the rise, and some of these cases have prompted security concerns at GMO research facilities across the country.

Since the UK has led the anti-GMO movement, many other countries around the world have followed suit. Some 200 South Koreans protested GM crops in May, and 300 Brazilian activists attacked a farm owned by mega agri-giant Monsanto in March. Yet, despite this opposition, GM crops are on the rise. Farmers planted 282.4 million acres of biotech crops worldwide last year, which is 12 percent higher than the year before.

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