More Than Just a Food Fight

By Zack Pelta-Heller, AlterNet. Posted August 4, 2005.

Fifteen states have passed laws preventing bans on biotech foods.
Sounds
harmless enough -- but green activist groups are protesting the
proposed
legislation as an affront to local democracy.

The debate over genetically modified organisms just got a lot hotter in
California. Last month, Democratic State Senator Dean Florez introduced
an
amendment that would effectively remove a community's control over its
food
supply.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/biod...laws080405.cfm