The motto for this protest — soup’s on!

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When authorities got wind of a demonstration planned for Monday outside the Food and Drug Administration’s offices in College Park, they fortified their defenses.

A motorcycle and nine police vans, ominously marked “Homeland Security,” parked in front of the FDA building, and uniformed officers fanned out across the entrance, where they waited.

And waited.

And waited.

They needn’t have. The demonstrators, demanding that the FDA require the labeling of genetically modified foods, hadn’t come with violence in mind, or even civil disobedience. They had come to cook a 50-gallon vat of soup on the sidewalk and then consume the stuff — a first-ever “eat-in” at the FDA, they said.

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1. Huh? Written by Dana Milbank and published by Daily Democrat Guest Opinions.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27323.cfm

GMO Protesters at FDA Newest Tactic: Soup's On!

By Dana Milbank
Daily Democrat, April 10, 2013

See: http://www.dailydemocrat.com/guestopinions/ci_22992952/milbank-gmoprotesters-newest-tactic-soups

WASHINGTON -- When authorities got wind of a demonstration planned for Monday outside the Food and Drug Administration's offices in College Park, Md., they fortified their defenses.

A motorcycle and nine police vans, ominously marked "Homeland Security," parked in front of the FDA building, and uniformed officers fanned out across the entrance, where they waited.

And waited.

And waited.

They needn't have. The demonstrators, demanding that the FDA require the labeling of genetically modified foods, hadn't come with violence in mind, or even civil disobedience. They had come to cook a 50-gallon vat of soup on the sidewalk and then consume the stuff -- a first-ever "eat-in" at the FDA, they said.

There were no foul-mouthed anarchists dressed in black -- just the sort of well-heeled crowd you'd come across at Whole Foods. "I packed up my kids' lunches and drove from Boston to Hartford to ride a bus for five hours," Kristi Marsh told the crowd, using the sound system to recount her trip to Monday's protest. She wore a chef's hat hand-lettered with the words "Everyday Mom."

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