'It's an important symbolic victory for biotech's skeptics,' Conko said. 'It certainly is something that should make supporters of biotechnology, including myself, a little bit nervous.' Activists gathered 9,000 signatures -- more than needed to qualify the measure -- which county supervisors now may enact or put to voters in a special election as soon as May or June. If the measure is approved, Sonoma would become the fourth California county to ban raising genetically engineered foods. Read on at: Reuters