clipped from: www.planetark.com   
French radical farmer Jose Bove, who became a worldwide celebrity for his fight against junk food, went on a hunger strike from Thursday to try and get the government to do more to ban genetically modified (GMO) crops.

Bove said the government had promised to write a letter to the European Commission saying France would use the so-called safeguard clause to suspend the use of GMOs until scientific studies proved they could be cultivated safely.

But the government had not sent the letter and had only suspended the commercial use of maize seeds

What I hope is that the political will (of the people) will be respected," Bove said in an interview.