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2009-07-31 | permalink
Boulder County (USA) Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee recommends allowing GMO beets
The Boulder County Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee recommended late Thursday that six local farmers be allowed to grow genetically modified sugar beets on open space land. In December, the farmers, all of whom are at least the second generation to farm in the county, asked that they be allowed to grow Roundup Ready sugar beets, which are genetically modified to resist the herbicide Roundup.
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2009-07-31 | permalink
Boulder County (USA) Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee recommends allowing GMO beets
The Boulder County Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee recommended late Thursday that six local farmers be allowed to grow genetically modified sugar beets on open space land. In December, the farmers, all of whom are at least the second generation to farm in the county, asked that they be allowed to grow Roundup Ready sugar beets, which are genetically modified to resist the herbicide Roundup.
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