On Monday 13 October Gerald Miles, organic farmer, and member of GM free Cymru, led five tractors, 200 trolleys and a thousand people through the streets of London to protest against the commercialisation of GM crops.
Here is the story of Gerald's GM pilgrimage
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1 and only 349 miles to go. Gerald leaves his organic farm in St Davids, Pembrokeshire.
Gerald arrives in Cardiff greeted by Assembly members from all political parties, members of Friends of the Earth Cymru, GM free Cymru and other groups to garland his tractor with over a thousand messages of support on paper 'vegetables' collected from all over Wales.
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A map of Wales was also presented to Gerald filled with signatures collected at this years National Eisteddfod.
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8 London via Cwmbran, Abergavenny, Hereford, Stourbridge, Birmingham
and CoventryGerald up in front.
Gerald leads the Parade through London.
People and trolleys decorated with vegetables, banners and flags waving as consumers and farmers unite together to demand a GM free Britain.
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Gerald
joins other organisers of the Parade - Friends of the Earth, Genetic
Engineering Network and the Five
Year Freeze campaign to hand in a GM free harvest loaf to 10 Downing
Street, the National Farmers Union and the Department of Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
As
the parade ends the protesters gather to hear speakers including former
minister Michael Meacher, international campaigner Vandana Shiva Friends
of the Earth Executive Director Tony Juniper and Gerald.
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If the Government does go ahead with the commercialisation of GM crops, it...will be another nail in the farming coffin. |
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Gerald Miles
Image © Ian Homer
