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Showing Original Post only (View all)Mexico Bans GMO Corn Effective Immediately [View all]
http://www.nationofchange.org/mexico-bans-gmo-corn-effective-immediately-1382022349Effective immediately, companies like Monsanto and DuPont/Pioneer will no longer be allowed to plant or sell their corn within the countrys borders.
According to Environmental Food and Justice, Judge Jaime Eduardo Verdugo J. of the Twelfth Federal District Court for Civil Matters of Mexico City wrote that the genetically engineered corn posed the risk of imminent harm to the environment.
He also ordered Mexicos Secretary of Agriculture and SEMARNAT (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), the equivalent to the U.S. 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.
The ruling means Monsanto and other biotech companies will be required to halt all activities in the country, giving collective action lawsuits initiated by citizens, farmers, scientists and other concerned parties a chance to work their way through the judicial system.
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It kills small farms who can't afford to fight back when Monsanto sues them n/t
eridani
Oct 2013
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