Mexico Officials: Allowing GM Corn Will Devastate Crops

Mexico Officials: Allowing GM Corn Will Devastate Crops








Despite
growing worldwide concern over the health and environmental risks
inherent in genetically modified crops, the government of Mexico is
toying with the idea of growing GM corn. This is the opposite of what
other nations such as India are doing, where scientists gathered in New
Delhi to discuss the need for the Indian government to ban GMO trials in
their country. The gathering was a media briefing organized by Aruna Rodrigues, “the lead petitioner in a public interest litigation” seeking the ban.

“Every indication shows that a decision could be taken in the coming
weeks,” says Silvia Ribero, spokeswoman for Canada-based ETC Group (an
ecological impact monitor). Ribero adds that although legal paperwork
remains to be prepared in full, President Felipe Calderon could
authorize the motion before leaving office in December to reduce
Mexico’s food imports.

Destruction of History and Humanity


All the big players—Monsanto, DuPont, and Dow—are waiting for the
go-ahead from the agriculture ministry to plant their poison in natural
corn’s indigenous soil in an area roughly the size of El Salvador (2.4
million hectares).

“We are talking about damaging more than 7,000 years of indigenous
and peasant work that’s created maize,” says Veronica Villa from the
Mexico branch of ETC, “one of the world’s three most widely eaten
crops.”

It is because of this crop’s versatility and prevalence in the
contemporary human diet that so-called philanthropists like Bill Gates
have invested so much into GM technology. In 2010, he purchased 500,000
shares of Monsanto, claiming that GMO crops were the answer to starvation.

Why GMOs Don’t Fully Address Starvation


None of us here likely know who Bill Gates truly is at the end of the
day. But let’s be frank: at best, he’s yet another one of the billions
funding biotech and Big Ag propaganda. Does he truly believe that
genetic modification comes without consequences.







At worst, however, Gates, Monsanto, DuPont, and Dow simply do not care that farmers across the world commit suicide in the thousands after going bankrupt thanks to overpriced, ineffective GM seeds.

They do not care that Monsanto’s insecticides are creating resistant weeds and insects, forcing farmers to spray more insecticides that pollute soil and therefore ground- and still therefore drinking water.

They do not care that our GM food has pesticide residue contributing to countless diseases in both animals and humans (and humans who consume animals), and have the gall to hide their dirty hands deep in their cash-lined pockets.

But what do we know?


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