This is very important because Mexico is home to native varieties of corn  
(Zea mays)..--Tom
 
 
  
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Subj: MEXICO: GM suspended!!


http://www.foodfirst.org/en/GMO+corn+banned+in+Mexico
Mexican judge  rules that GMOs are imminent threat
Monsanto and Pioneer must stop selling  GM seeds in Mexico
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A federal judge has ordered Mexico's  Secretary of Agriculture, and 
SEMARNAT (which is equivalent to the EPA) to  immediately "suspend all 
activities involving the planting of transgenic  corn in the country 
and end the granting of permission for experimental  and pilot 
commercial plantings".

Judge Verdugo wrote the opinion  and cited "the risk of imminent harm 
to the environment" as the basis for  the decision. The judge's ruling 
also ruled that multinationals like  Monsanto and Pioneer are banned 
from the release of transgenic maize in  the Mexican countryside" as 
long as collective action lawsuits initiated  by citizens, farmers, 
scientists, and civil society organizations are  working their way 
through the judicial system.

The judge's decision  reflects a commitment to respect the 
Precautionary Principle expressed in  various international treaties 
and statements of human rights.

This  ruling marks a milestone in the long struggle of citizen demands 
for a  GMO-free country.

The class action lawsuit is supported by scientific  evidence from 
studies that have documented the contamination of Mexico's  native 
corn varieties by transgenes from GMO corn, principally the  varieties 
introduced by Monsanto's Roundup ready lines and the  
herbicide-resistant varieties marketed by Pioneer and Bayer  
CropScience.

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