Lpez Obrador: 'We cannot give in' to GM corn from US

[Judi Lynn]

Mexico’s president is determined to take the issue of genetically modified corn imports to arbitration via the USMCA, despite no evidence that GMOs are harmful and ample reason to believe that such a move would negatively affect U.S. farmers and Mexican consumers.

CODY COPELAND / November 29, 2022

MEXICO CITY (CN) — Mexico’s president struck back Tuesday at U.S. threats to resort to legal action if Mexico does not change its attitude toward U.S. imports of genetically modified (GM) corn.

“We were very clear in that we can’t allow [GM] corn imports … for human consumption,” said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his morning press conference. “We are self-sufficient in white corn, and we are not going allow the importation of [GM] yellow corn for human consumption.”

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“We’re looking for a solution,” López Obrador said. “We hope to reach an agreement, but if that agreement is not reached, well, there are panels, and we shouldn’t be alarmed, it’ll go to a tribunal, but we cannot give in to that request.”

Vilsack’s visit came as Mexico inches toward a 2024 deadline to end human consumption of GM corn and corn grown with glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup. López Obrador ordered the ban in an executive order issued in December 2020.

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1. mexico sets its own rules and policies not us corporations nt

[2naSalit]

2. I hope they can keep that edict alive.

GMO corn is destroying corn crop around the world and contusing to push glyphosate is criminal. Vilsack is a corporate whore for the likes of Cargill and Monsanto... fuck that guy.

Lopez Obrador is doing the right thing and Vilsack can shove it all the way up his ass. He needs to be replaced.