This is very important because Mexico is home to native varieties of corn
(Zea mays)..--Tom
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
(edited)
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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