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José Bové, French MEP with the Greens

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Our guest is José Bové, an anti-globalist activist-turned-staunch European. He is most notorious for destroying a McDonalds restaurant in the 1990s and for his campaigns against genetically modified crops. José Bové has now changed tactics, working from the inside as a European lawmaker.

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