Protest Outside Rio State Government in Brazil

Greenpeace activists holding banner that reads: 'Rigotto, is this what you want for the Rio Grande Do Sul?' in Portuguese. Germano Rigotto being the governor of Rio Grande Do Sul, in Porto Alege, Brazil. Demonstration at the Palacio Piratini, the seat of the Rio Grande Do Sul state government in Porto Alegre, Brazil, during the GE tour with Greenpeace ship 'Arctic Sunrise'. A technological package was delivered containing a 'Superweed', an actor playing the part of a representative of Monsanto. Greenpeace campaigner Ventura Barbeiro met with Pedro Bisch Neto, Chief of the Cabinet of Civil House, and delivered a letter concerning the problem of pesticides and GM products.

Unique identifier: GP0ZMH

Type: Image

Shoot date: 18/05/2004

Locations: Brazil, Porto Alegre, South America

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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MV Arctic Sunrise GE Tour in Brazil

The Greenpeace ship MV Arctic Sunrise and the Biosafety Inspection is part of the tour "Brazil melhor sem transgênicos" (Brazil is better without GE food crops). All over the world, GE industry is attempting to contaminate the non-GE supply. Commercial growing of GE soya was illegal in Brazil until last year, when the Lula Government caved in to demand from Monsanto and farmers in Rio Grande do Sul who had been using Monsanto's GE soya seeds smuggled across from Argentina. The first legal harvest of GE soya is now ready and is about to enter Brazil's food chain and be exported overseas. The MV Arctic Sunrise (MVAS) GE soya tour aims to defend consumers' and farmers' rights to choose non-GE, and to expose the risk of GE soya.

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