Greenpeace stops GM soya ship

London - Five activists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace stormed a ship loaded with genetically modified soya off the…

London - Five activists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace stormed a ship loaded with genetically modified soya off the coast of Wales yesterday, stopping it from moving on to unload.

Greenpeace said two people were hanging from the ship's anchor chain which made it dangerous to draw up and move on from Anglesey to a processing plant in Liverpool, owned by the US grain giant Cargill Inc.

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