As the famous Woody Guthrie song rightly contends, "This Land Is Our Land". If the vast majority of people say that GM crops should not be grown here, then they must not be grown here

Companies involved in the production of GM produce, appear motivated by their interest in financial gain. There are several companies in Cambridge who are involved in genetic modification, Monsanto, Bayer CropScience and Syngenta. I feel as I live in Cambridge, I have a duty to take part in this walk

As a farmer I am concerned that no-one knows the impact of GM on our health or the environment. I
believe planting GM crops on a commercial scale is not a risk we should be taking especially as consumer demand for non-GM food is overwhelming. GM crops, whether planted commercially or as trials, will inevitably contaminate both non-GM and organic crops.

We neither want nor need GM crops in the UK. They are irrelevant to the real problems in agriculture around the world. They are a short term, quick-fix approach to deeper issues we all need to tackle as societies and as individuals

I am cycling to London, with others, to join the Tractors and Trolleys event. The name is significant for me because it is the first time that farmers and consumers have specifically come together as a united front against the possible commercialisation of GM crops in the UK.

Five years ago the biotech company that is now Bayer CropScience tried to prosecuted me for half a million pounds worth of criminal damage, after I helped remove a trial of GM maize [near Dartington Devon]. The case was dropped because the crown realized that the plants could criminally damage the neighboring organic farm. Yet now they want to make the very same variety of GM fodder maize available for commercial sale.

[I want] to express the wishes of a diversity of people seeking in their own way to produce and consume food with respect for nature, place
and ethics; and the shared sense of threat that this choice could be denied us because of the machinations of a handful of very unscrupulous, very rich corporations and a stubborn prime minister.

Making a colourful moving carnival float will be a good way to attract people's attention and make them laugh. I am interested in doing this to focus as much public attention as possible on GM at the most critical time in the campaign. GM crops will
increase corporate control over agriculture and eco-systems are so complex that there is huge potential for things to go wrong at different points in the food chain.

Most people in Britain would join me in urging the Government to back off from legalising GM crops and food, and in doing this protect the environment from further damage, protect the people's right to choose safe food. The Government should resist the propaganda from US state officials and US multinational companies which say this technology will feed the starving. It is purely for the purpose of making money, greed.

I am convinced that the legacy for our children, our grandchildren and ultimately our great-grandchildren will be problems of insurmountable solutions. The concerns surrounding GM crops go to the very heart of human survival; the need for sustenance. The regulatory authorities wish to re-assure us that this food, which on the one hand is so different it can be patented, but on the other hand is so similar to conventional food it does not require the level of testing expected of pharmaceuticals, is safe for our children to eat.

I am cycling to London because I cannot believe that the government may allow GM crops to be grown commercially in this country despite the fact that no body wants them, that there would be no benefit to this country economic, environmental or otherwise, and most importantly despite the fact that GM foods may not be safe for human consumption.

I am bound on a pilgrimage to a GM free Britain. A journey to bear witness to the land which has already been contaminated by crops engineered out of greed and delusion. A journey to celebrate the communities of resistance that have sprung up in response wherever the GM crops have been planted.