Trash to the beet, Germany

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.

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 …