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Article: Biotech Industry to Fight Mendocino County, Calif., Vote against Altered Crops.

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By Paul Jacobs, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 4--The biotechnology industry is considering a lawsuit or statewide legislation to nullify a successful Mendocino County ballot initiative, the first in the country to outlaw the growing of genetically modified crops.

At the same time, activists in at least one other rural Northern California county, Humboldt, are already at work on an identical initiative and hope to gather enough signatures to qualify it for their local ballot in November.

Backers of Mendocino County's Measure H were jubilant Wednesday after they won almost 57 percent of the vote for ...

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