Editing José Bové (section)

== Alter-globalization activist ==
[[Image:Jose Bove Salon Agriculture 2006.jpg|thumb|left|José Bové at an anti-GMO protest in March 2006]] 
During an interview by Lynn Jeffress for ''Z'' magazine in June 2001{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}, Bové explained why he destroyed the McDonald's, saying: "This is a fight against free trade global capitalism. It's about the logic of a certain economic system, not an American system. It can be a struggle against any country, this one or that one."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Reforming_System/World_Struggle_Underway.html|publisher=thirdworldtraveler.com |access-date=2001-06-13|title=A World Struggle Is Underway}}</ref>
Bové has participated in numerous [[anti-globalization]] movements. In June 1997 he took part in the first anti-GM mowing. The same year that he took part in destruction of the McDonald's, he attended the protests in [[Seattle]] against the [[World Trade Organization]] meeting. Bové became a figure of anti-globalization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ecolopedia.fr/?p=1146|title=José Bové|website=www.ecolopedia.fr |date=10 August 2015}}</ref>

Since then, he has redoubled his efforts in the world peasant and [[anti-globalization movement]]s. He has said that he does not oppose the WTO and global rules,<ref>Jose Bove, ''Le monde n'est pas une marchandise''</ref>  and agrees there is a need for such forms. But his resistance, as stated by his followers, is directed against the lack of democracy in how these rules are developed, approved and implemented. Bové is a founding member of [[ATTAC]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.france.attac.org/le-coll-ge-des-fondateurs |title=ATTAC founding members |access-date=2012-05-21 |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412031004/http://www.france.attac.org/le-coll-ge-des-fondateurs |archive-date=2011-04-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2001 Bové took part in a major action destroying [[genetic engineering|genetically modified]] crops in Brazil. In 2005 he campaigned for a "No" vote in the [[2005 French European Constitution referendum|French referendum]] on the [[EU Constitution]]; the proposal was defeated.