Steamroller protest outside US embassy in Vienna over GM corn

0 Comments | AFP, March, 2008

VIENNA (AFP) — Around 30 environmental activists used a steamroller to crush corn outside the US embassy in Vienna Thursday to protest alleged US pressure on Austria to accept genetically modified corn.

"Greenpeace is protesting the Bush administration's threat to impose prohibitive taxes on Austrian imports if Vienna continues to forbid genetically modified products," one of the activists said at the rally.

The United States "is violating our sovereign right to use only products free of genetically modified organisms, because the majority of Americans strictly reject foods that contain GMOs," he added.

The Austrian branch of the environmental group called on US diplomats working in Vienna Thursday to prevent the imposition of import taxes.

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