Without Corn There Is No Country: Stopping Monsanto in Mexico
Without Corn There Is No Country: Stopping Monsanto in Mexico
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
by Abby Zimet, staff writer
A bit of good news from Mexico, which insists on throwing improbable wrenches into Monsanto's massive reckless science experiment on the rest of us: Mexico's Federal Court has upheld a 2013 ruling by Judge Marroquín Zaleta suspending the granting of licenses for GMO corn field trials sought by Monsanto and other Big-Ag colleagues, citing the environmental risks to over 7,000 years of indigenous maize cultivation and the country's resulting 60 varieties of corn. The Zaleta ruling, which prompted Monsanto not just to appeal but to embark (in vain) on an effort to get him off the bench, is the latest victory in what many view as Ground Zero in the fight against GMO infestation. After protests by Mayan farmers, beekeepers, a biodiversity commission and other groups, a Mexican judge just ruled to withdraw a Monsanto permit to plant GMO soybeans in seven states - over 625,000 acres - citing the threat posed to honey production in the Yucatán peninsula, and another judge rejected a GMO maize license request by Syngenta. Bravo to Stop the Crop, Greenpeace and others convincing those in power to "go off script" and stop Monsanto.
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/09/02/without-corn-there-no-country-stopping-monsanto-mexico
