Cumbria goes gm-free.

M2 PRESSWIRE-24 July 2003-FOE: Cumbria goes gm-free(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07242003 Cumbria today became the latest county council to vote to go GM-free. The move was warmly welcomed by Friends of the Earth, who launched its GM-free Britain campaign last year [1]. Earlier this week the Lake District National Park backed a similar GM-free policy.

Support was overwhelming with Cumbria County Council voting 64-9 (with three abstentions) for a GM-free Cumbria. Measures voted through include applying, under a European law, to prevent GM crops from being grown ...

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