Los ecologistas amantes de las patatas

Ocurrió en Yorkshire. Un grupo de ecologistas decidió que era intolerable la presencia de un campo de patatas transgénicas en medio de la naturaleza y acudió raudo al lugar de los hechos. Armados de palas y patatas consagradas (o sea, de las buenas) se pusieron manos a la obra: levantaron la parcela a golpe de pala, retiraron las patatas demoníacas y plantaron las patatas canónicas.

Lo gracioso del asunto es que se habían equivocado de parcela, lo que sacaban del suelo no eran patatas y el dueño de la cosa se pasó un buen rato mondándose de risa de los chicos del… no, no del maíz, de la patata.

Activists calling themselves mutatoes.org descended on a field in East Yorkshire to scupper a GM trial. But after back-breaking work digging up the rock-hard ground the group now admit they made a mistake.

Farmer’s son Chris Buckton said there were no GM trials at the site and the field only carried cattle feed crops. In an effort to invalidate the trial of what the campaigners thought was a field full of genetically modified potatoes the group held a rally in Hull before travelling to the farm on the outskirts of the city.

But when they got to the area there was confusion over exactly which field they should target.

Chris Buckton, whose family farm at Highfield Farm near Hedon, said: “We expected around five or six people, but when we got there, there was about 200 of them. “They were walking around the field and had what appeared to be a base in the middle. It was a peaceful protest and then someone with a loudspeaker said they were going to plant these potatoes.

“They all had a shovel and started to dig. We found it quite funny, you know, it seems really stupid that these guys are supposed to be into the environment, but don’t know what a potato crop looks like.

Lea la noticia. (las negritas son mias)”

Vía Ökologismus.