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Colorado county to phase out GMO crops

Boulder County, Colorado commissioners have voted to ban raising genetically modified corn and sugar beets on county-own farmland.  The commissioners voted 2-1 to proceed with its plan to phase out raising GM crops earlier this week.

Farmers growing GMO corn on the property leased from the county can plant the crop next year, but will have to be phase it out by 2019.  GMO sugar beets can be planted for the next five years, but will have to be phased out by the end of 2021.

Commissioner Cindy Domenico, the lone vote against the ban questioned how people who support scientific findings about humans contributing to climate change can deny science relating to the safety of GMO crops.