He told the assembled meeting, they roared with laughter, put a statement out to the press and Greenpeace was suitably chastised.

Greenpeace's size and centralized power structure gives it tremendous muscle that smaller grassroots groups cannot match.

Doug Parr from Greenpeace said: " So many questions about GM technology went unasked in the early stages.

Last weekend Greenpeace sent two ships icebreakers from Cape Town to turn the hunt on the Japanese whalers.

Even today Icelanders commonly support whaling, and visits by Greenpeace are greeted with people barbecuing whale meat.

For environmentalist organizations like Greenpeace to be against GMO in all its forms under all conditions does nothing at all to serve them or the constituencies they purport to represent.

Doug Parr from Greenpeace said: So many questions about GM technology went unasked in the early stages.

Last weekend Greenpeace sent two ships icebreakers from Cape Town to turn the hunt on the Japanese whalers.

Even today Icelanders commonly support whaling, and visits by Greenpeace are greeted with people barbecuing whale meat.

The previous two days have been marked by Greenpeace activists obstructing the whale hunt by placing their zodiacs between the whales and the harpoon.

Luma's suppliers such as those in India are fair trade partners with such organizations as Oxfam and Greenpeace.

OCA has partnered with Greenpeace on more than one occasion to demand truth in labeling and advertising, perhaps most notably with Whole Foods Market.