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    1. blank She Who Watches says:

      Likely scenario: Syngenta has farmworkers, not fluent in English and possibly illegal, pull the crop. These folks would be unlikely to tell law officials, whether FBI or local police out of fear of deportation. Or in an even more nefarious scenario, Syngenta has illegal farmworkers pull the crop and then sends Immigration officials in to round them up and deport them. These are questions the FBI should be asking: Have there been any large scale round-ups of illegal farmworkers in Jackson County since the events were reported? How long does it take to pull 5500 beets? How many people needed to to the job in the middle of the night? Why didn't Syngenta place guards at their other fields after the first incident?

  1. blank skinnycat says:

    Why don't the "feds" go do something useful? Stand at the border, for instance, and stop harassing citizens.

  2. blank Patti Jo Edwards says:

    Who ever did this, I applaud their courage and action. On the other hand, were these crops insured? Are we sure that the owner didn't destroy their own crops? This tactic of crop destruction does actually get the desired result. Look at Europe. This is how they finally won – by destroying the offending crops. We have a multimillion dollar organic industry here in Southern Oregon. We DO NOT want GMO crops here or their pesticides. Let us celebrate the work of whoever destroyed the GMO sugar beats and all other GMOs worldwide. We say, "NO!" And, here in Grants Pass, we are delighted that there are actions being taken to make these GMO crops unprofitable. We seriously do not care what uninformed and misinformed people think of us.

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