On the Wrong Track

"ANTI-GM campaigners have been forced to apologise after they targeted the wrong field in a demonstration against trials of GM potatoes.

Hundreds of protesters from the group Mutatoes descended on land at Hedon, near Hull, which they believed had been earmarked for the BASF Plant Science trials.

The rally started as a GM-free potato picnic accompanied by live music with around 300 protestors. A large number then set out across the field to plant organic potatoes.

..However, it emerged that they had selected the wrong field, which was owned by another farmer. The land they had planted with organic potatoes had, in fact, already been drilled with beans by Hedon farmer David Buckton, who reported that the protestors left rubbish behind on his land including placards."

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