Ariddia
08-02-2007, 20:07
José Bové, a left-wing, anti-neoliberal, anti-GMO farmer and candidate for the French Presidential election, has been sentenced to 4 months in prison for destroying GMO crops. He's still allowed to run for the election, and may therefore be campaigning from behind bars - the first time this has ever happened in France.
It would be amusing if he were elected while in prison. :D (He won't be, though. He's a "minor" candidate.)
The mustachioed sheep farmer shot to worldwide fame in 1999 after trashing a half-built McDonald's outlet in southern France and he has called for a moratorium on GM crops as part of his campaign against what he has termed "malbouffe", or bad food.
His activism has already earned him three spells in prison, for the McDonald's incident in 1999, and in 2001 and 2003 for ripping up GM crops.
Bove won expressions of support from rival candidates of the left including Marie-George Buffet of the French Communist Party.
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In 1987 he founded the radical Small Farmers Confederation to champion the cause of small producers, launching a crusade against fast-food and GM crops.
Full article here (http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/france/20070207-Jose-Bove-jail.html) (with brief video).
It would be amusing if he were elected while in prison. :D (He won't be, though. He's a "minor" candidate.)
The mustachioed sheep farmer shot to worldwide fame in 1999 after trashing a half-built McDonald's outlet in southern France and he has called for a moratorium on GM crops as part of his campaign against what he has termed "malbouffe", or bad food.
His activism has already earned him three spells in prison, for the McDonald's incident in 1999, and in 2001 and 2003 for ripping up GM crops.
Bove won expressions of support from rival candidates of the left including Marie-George Buffet of the French Communist Party.
[...]
In 1987 he founded the radical Small Farmers Confederation to champion the cause of small producers, launching a crusade against fast-food and GM crops.
Full article here (http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/france/20070207-Jose-Bove-jail.html) (with brief video).