Monsanto goes to High Court over GM protests

20 April 1999

Monsanto goes to High Court over GM protests

MONSANTO begun a High Court action to stop protestors pulling up its genetically modified (GM) plants at test sites.

The biotechnology wants a permanent injunction against six members of GenetiX Snowball, the group that uprooted GM plants at a farm in Oxfordshire last July.

Five women were released without trial after the incident, but Monsanto took out temporary injunctions against them, banning further interference with its crops.

• Eco-warriors sidestep Monsanto injunction, FWi, 21 September, 1998
• Monsanto injunction fails to deter GM protestors, FWi, 20 July, 1998
  

• Financial Times 20/04/99 page 10 (News Digest)