GERMAN EVICTION
Police evicted about 10 demonstrators on August 27th from an agricultural research field that they occupied for a week to protest genetic engineering. The government-owned Robert Koch Institute, based in Berlin, planned to sow genetically engineered rapeseed at the field in Lueneburg, in northern Lower Saxony state just southeast of Hamburg. The protesters, members of the Lueneburger Association against Genetic Technology, accused the government of pushing a risky technology over the objections of the public.