The activist group, Greenpeace, recently had their version of the New York City marathon interrupted with protesters dressed as grim reapers and carrying coffins. The protest group, CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) was raising awareness of the millions of Africans who die yearly because of opposition by Greenpeace and other activist groups opposed to pesticides for malaria control and the use of biotech crops to relieve hunger and malnutrition.
(Source: Chemically Speaking, University of Florida Extension, July 2003).