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| | Friends of the Earth: Press Releases: 2003: East Riding Goes GM-Free |
 | | The East Riding of Yorkshire has voted to become a GM-free area, joining local authorities around the country responding to public concerns about the effects of eating and cultivating GM crops. |
 | | The East Riding of Yorkshire is the latest authority to go GM-free, following Cornwall, Cumbria, Devon, Dorset, Lancashire, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, the Lake District National Park and the Welsh National Assembly. |
 | | Campaigners in East Riding raised concerns about the long term impacts of GM food and crops on our health and environment, and on the threat to local organic and non-GM farmers. |
| www.foe.co.uk /resource/press_releases/east_riding_goes_gmfree.html (464 words) |
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