On August 26, 2001, hundreds of radical environmentalists in France laid ruin to a major test site for genetically modified corn owned by Monsanto Co. The destruction came just days after about 150 activists destroyed a similar site in southern France.
Incidents such as these are becoming increasingly common throughout Europe. Those in opposition to the development and testing of GM crops say they are the unsafe products of greedy multinational agri-businesses whose aim is to patent their own fo…