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Fact Checking March Against Monsanto Protesters #3

February 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

I have previously made videos critical of Sue Mallender and Tracey Lloyd, who gave speeches at the March Against Monsanto protest in Nottingham last year. There was no passion behind anything these women said; nor were they able to get the crowd worked up on that particularly wet day. There was, however, one person that day who had done her homework. Someone who was also a speaker but, unlike the other two, had charisma and passion. Her name was Kay Haw and in this video I am going to critique [...]

Fact Checking March Against Monsanto Protesters #1

December 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The first in a series of videos fact checking some of the speakers from the March Against Monsanto protest in Nottingham. In this video, Myles discusses a speech given by Tracey Lloyd – who believes that there is independent research out there that proves the dangers of the process of genetic modification. If you would like more information on the events of that day, it was covered in a League of Nerds podcast March Against Monsanto – The League of Nerds Video based on ‘What [...]

What Are These People Even Marching Against?

October 6, 2014 // 5 Comments

Edited by Peter In May of this year, I attended a March Against Monsanto protest in Nottingham and the one thing that really stuck out to me was the lack of knowledge these protesters had. I can’t stress enough at how embarrassingly little these people knew about the things they were protesting against and how the majority of them were unable to answer the most basic of questions. Questions like ‘why are you specifically against GMOs?’ Many danced around the question or changed the [...]

Sue Mallender Does Not Live in the Real World

October 5, 2014 // 14 Comments

Back in May of this year on a particularly wet day League of Nerds co-host, James, and I attended a March against Monsanto protest in Nottingham. The protest was attended by a relatively large group of people who I presumed were there to protest against the agriculture company Monsanto. Instead it became apparent very early on that they were there to protest against genetically modified organisms as a whole. The main event began with a speech from one of the organizers who, for some reason, [...]