Posted at the Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_15327.cfm
CALIFORNIA: Lake County Supervisors Approve GE Crop Ban
October 21, 2008
LAKEPORT – By a 3-2 vote the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave initial approval to an ordinance to ban the use of genetically engineered (GE) crops in Lake County.
The ordinance has been advanced to a final reading next month.
Supervisors Ed [...]
Counties in California and Hawaii Ban GMO Crops
California’s Proposition 2
Posted by Tom Philpott at Grist
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/6/103417/969?source=daily
California’s Proposition 2 — deftly profiled by Carol Ness — passed in a landslide on Tuesday.
The new law is simple and hardly earth-shaking; it requires that “calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens, and pregnant pigs be confined only in ways that allow these animals to lie down, stand up, [...]
