CVMA celebrates collapsed Sonoma County initiative
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - 12/02/05 - California veterinary leaders are celebrating the failure of a bid to ban genetically modified organisms including recombinant vaccines in Sonoma County.
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - 12/02/05 - California veterinary leaders are celebrating the failure of a bid to ban genetically modified organisms including recombinant vaccines in Sonoma County.
The ballot initiative called for establishing a 10-year moratorium in the agricultural region on the "propagation, cultivation, raising, growing, sale or distribution of transgenic organisms." Genetically engineered recombinant DNA vaccines were not excluded from the proposed language, prompting the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and Redwood Empire Veterinary Medical Association to lobby against the measure (see DVM Newsmagazine's December issue, p.18).
"I think we really made a difference," CVMA Executive Director Valerie Fenstermaker says.
