French Farmer and Global Social Justice Activist Jose Bove Describes Fight for Food Sovereignty Around the World

Interview with Jose Bove, Anti-corporate globalization activist conducted by Melinda Tuhus

Jose Bove is a French cheese farmer who gained notoriety in 1999 when he led other activists in destroying a McDonald's restaurant in France -- for him, a hated symbol of the industrialization of food production. Bove, who has also been arrested for destroying genetically modified, or GM, crops, has since become an international leader of the anti-corporate globalization movement.

He was recently in the U.S., just back from visiting survivors of the tsunami disaster in Indonesia and participating in the World Social Forum in Brazil. He heads the Confederation Paysanne, the French Farmers Union, which is part of Via Campesina, an international farmers' movement with millions of members.

Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Bove at the winter conference of the Connecticut chapter of NOFA, the Northeast Organic Farming Association, March 5. He discusses the origin of Via Campesina, the international farmers' movement, in response to international free trade agreements, rulings by the World Trade Organization, or WTO and the struggle for "food sovereignty" in Europe and around the world.

For more information, visit the farmers' movement website at www.viacampesinoa.org

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