The Green Files > Lake County votes to ban GMO crops

news | SR | http://www.pressdemocrat.com[news | SR | http://www.pressdemocrat.com] Voters in both Mendocino and Marin counties approved bans on growing genetically modified crops in 2004. Unlike in those counties, Lake County supervisors, not voters, made the decision.

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