Potato heads

A group of protestors vehemently opposed to a trial of genetically modified potatoes due to begin on a farm outside Hull earlier this week came up with a novel way of disrupting it. Around 250 supporters of Mutatoes.org descended on the field early on Tuesday and sowed the entire 16 hectares with organic potatoes in an effort to invalidate the whole deal - fields planted with non-GM spuds can’t be used for trial purposes don’t ya know. Sounds like a great form of direct action to me - gentle, effective, witty AND you get a vast amount of organic potatoes at the end of it all. The protestors were no doubt delighted with themselves until they realised that they had sown the wrong field – the Guardian reports that they had to act quickly and in their haste got a bit lost. They have since apologised to the bemused farmer who had his non-GM bean crop unexpectedly replaced.