"Nancy Oden, member of RAGE (Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering). xx http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/riskcomm/archives/agnet/1999/8-1999/ag-08-22-99-01.txt Environmental activist Nancy Oden of Jonesboro said Thursday that while she did not destroy the plants, she commended those who did. "I'm glad they did it,'' Oden said during an interview at the Bangor Daily News offices. "It may not have been legal, but it was the moral thing to do.''
Oden, who was scheduled to meet with Jemison and Rebar on Thursday morning, said that she had planned to bend a few ears of corn down as a "nonviolent protest'' during the meeting, but did not know who was responsible for the late-night destruction.
xxx In an Aug. 16 e-mail sent to other activists and also sent to the NEWS, Oden gave explicit directions to the location of the cornfield and advised activists to wear "a mask to avoid the toxic pollen, and gloves to avoid toxins throughout the plant'' if they had physical contact with the plants. Oden said Thursday that the e-mail was not meant to incite destruction, only as information for environmentalists. cleanmaine@nemaine.com"