Greenpeace International is the largest independent (non-government) direct-action environmental activist group in the world. They do not accept money from the government. Greenpeace activists are against over fishing, whale slaughter, deforestation, mountain top removal, coal company pollutants, and global warming. Activists have gone as far as hanging a banner from Mt. Rushmore to raise awareness about stopping global warming.
Researching Greenpeace, I learned that not all activist groups are violent. Greenpeace tries to keep their protests and demonstrations at a respectable level, and not take them overboard. Though, hanging a banner from Mt. Rushmore was a very risky protest, Greenpeace activists did it anyway, and even video taped it, and added it to their videos website. Greenpeace activists seem to be very unafraid of the consequences of their actions.
Not only is Greenpeace trying to help stop global warming, deforestation, etc., but they are also trying to help agriculture along the way. According to the Greenpeace website, 99.5% of farmers worldwide do not use Genetically Engineered foods. Greenpeace activists also oppose the excessive use of synthetic fertilizers stating that the use of such fertilizers is contributing to global warming. Greenpeace believes in producing food without destruction.
Greenpeace’s solution to Genetically Engineered foods is Organic Agriculture, this meaning using local resources. Organic practices offer farmers opportunities to increase their income and livelihood. Greenpeace is concerned about the hungry children of the world. They also believe that in order to produce enough food for the growing population there need to be radical changes in our farming systems.
While researching Greenpeace, I also realized instead of producing enough crops to sustain a local population, industrial agriculture produces crops to sell in world markets. Greenpeace is all for changing agriculture practices throughout the world. Though some of the practices around the world need some major changed but not all practices are not in need of change.
