The activist's also spray-painted messages on the greenhouses and mixed up paper bags that were being used to collect maize in the field.
Biodiversity is up for sale.
Since November 1998 there have been roughly 38 anti-genetic direct actions in North America and the movement shows no signs of slowing. The month of July saw two actions by the Earth Liberation Front and one by the Concerned Maine Citizens. The direct actionists maintain that biotechnology is completely unnecessary and is being developed at the expense of human and ecological health solely to increase the profits of large multinational corporations. UCSD has a California Sea Grant that sponsors the genetic alteration of marine invertebrates to prevent diseases that attack commercial stock of oysters, clams, mussels, and abalone. UCSD's transgenic mouse laboratory is only one aspect of their commodification and destructive use of mutilated animals.