The Jawa report, yesterday:
Last April, the Thai government passed a law banning open-field trials of genetically-modified (GM) crops. Greenpeace was elated.
Recently, it was reported that the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry was going to seek cabinet approval for a lifting of the ban on open-field trials of transgenic crops. Assuredly, Greenpeace was not amused and reacted by dumping tons of papayas at the entrance to the ministry.
Three truck loads of transgenic papayas sent the message to the ministry that Greenpeace wanted the ban to continue. It was believed that public and political support to keep the ban would follow the papaya protest. But it wasn’t to be.
Passers-by and onlookers formed a flood of people grabbing up papayas.
The only way you could suggest that the stunt backfired on Greenpeace, is if you thought the Greenpeace actually gave a damn about what the average citizen thinks. or, for that matter, what happens to the average citizen when their policies are followed. How many people died because of the ban on DDT, for example?
Tags: BitsBlog, Enviro-Nazis, Idiots
