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Mendocino County Bans Genetically Modified Organisms

by克里斯蒂查尔斯
Jun 2004 Issue of Wine Business Monthly
一些希望它将拯救农业,因为他们知道它. Others see it as uncertain and risky, and a certain number simply shrug their shoulders at the issue. But in Mendocino County, voters have decided to act now. On March 2, residents of this rural California county chose to pass the nation's first complete ban on cultivating, propagating, raising or growing any type of genetically modified organism (GMO). Opinions within the county are divided: on one hand, genetic engineering has the potential to eliminate many of the wine industry's pests and diseases, and on the other, its effects on humans and the environment are largely unknown. Els Cooperrider, owner of the organic Ukiah Brewery and one of the individuals who formed the measure, said t...
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