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Chanting “We will stop Monsanto!,” about 100 people marched through downtown Napa on Saturday to protest the agribusiness giant and engineered foods.

The marchers, including parents pushing their toddlers in strollers, crossed the First Street Bridge and headed toward the Farmers Market outside the Oxbow Public Market before returning to downtown for a group photo in front of City Hall.

Napa’s “March Against Monsanto” took place in conjunction with hundreds of similar events nationwide and in more than 50 countries. The St. Louis-based company, organizers said, owns the patents of more than 85 percent of genetically engineered seeds sold in the U.S.

“Monsanto has a long history of putting out dangerous products that have been harmful to people’s health and to the environment,” said Erica Amy Martenson, coordinator for Label GMOs — Napa County, who was one of the speakers at Dwight Murray Plaza off First Street.

The speakers urged the public to eat organic agricultural products and avoid consuming genetically engineered foods — also known as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.