Crop vandalism needs a second "day in court"

Green Genes.
04.aug.08
The Economist via Agnet
Economist.com

Almost ten years ago, a jury acquitted Lord Melchett, a British aristocrat who headed Greenpeace, of the willful destruction of a field of genetically modified (GM) crops in Norfolk...
Ten years on and anti-GM activists are still at it: in June, unknown vandals destroyed a field of genetically modified potatoes near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire...

...The story goes on to conclude that if the crop trashers are so convinced they are right and have public support, they should identify themselves—and face a new trial. There, in front of the world, they can air their complaints and defend the need to destroy a trial that aims to put food in the mouths of hungry people.