During the night of 31 May 2011, despite the fence and 24-hour security, a KWS field was destroyed in Wetze, Germany. KWS is a German genetic engineering company; the field trial was genetically modified beet H7-1, resistant to the herbicide Round-Up.
We have destroyed this field to directly attack an industry that makes us dependent on plant and animal patents. This is only possible in a capitalist system, in which new technologies are not created for need, but to maximize profit and to obtain power.
We see this action not only as an action against genetically engineered crops, but against the entire capitalist order.
This system – with its various implications and manifestations – is vulnerable on many levels with many resources …