EXTRA EXTRA! Read all about it! L.A.City Council panel backs away from GMO ban it previously supported ---Three days before Los Angeles lawmakers voted on a proposal to ban genetically modified crops, the worlds largest biotechnology trade group hired three top City Hall lobbyists to stop it. The matter had sailed through a meeting weeks before with only one City Council member expressing doubt. But when a council committee sat down to vote again this month, three of the five members came out strongly against it — though they said lobbyists had nothing to do with it. The action shocked Councilman Paul Koretz, who co-authored the proposal and expected his colleagues to rubber-stamp it as they had many times before.---
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:37:52 +0000
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