Kendall likens GM activists to 1930s nazis
May 22, 2012 NFU President Peter Kendall has likened activists seeking to destroy the UK's first genetically modified (GM) wheat to Nazis in the 1930s.
A man who caused 'significant damage' at the trial site at the Rothamsted Research institute on Sunday morning has been arrested by Hertfordshire police and charged with criminal damage.
In a statement Rothamsted said the man caused 'significant, random property damage but failed in his attempt to disrupt the experiment in this attack'.
In a speech to MPs at the House of Commons to launch the new NFU Farming Delivers for Britain campaign, Mr Kendall was expected to liken the damage to the Nazi book burners of the 1930’s.
He was due to say much of British agriculture was using cutting-edge technology and the application of science will determine our future.
“I have to condemn the scandalous attempts over the weekend to destroy the trials of GM wheat at Rothamsted. This is criminal, and must be dealt with as such. It’s worse than that. It is the wilful imposition of ignorance, directly comparable to Nazi book-burning in the 1930’s.
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