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The Animal Liberation Front tried to disrupt Christmas celebrations in Italy by threatening to contaminate panettone, a traditional Italian Christmas cake, with racumin, a rat poison. The ALF sent samples of two Nestle brand panettone contaminated with the poison to an Italian news agency.
In response, Nestle shut down the plant that produced the panettone and most supermarkets took the Nestle product off their shelves.
And what message was the ALF trying to send? It wants Nestle to abandon efforts to use genetically modified wheat in products sold in Italy. Apparently the ALF is trying to branch out into liberating wheat.
Source:
Panettone panic. The BBC, December 13, 1998.
Nestle shuts plant after Animal Liberation Front poisons cakes. Bloomburg News, December 12, 1998.