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2 days ago · The US-Mexico Tortilla War. A trade dispute between Mexico City and Washington puts a spotlight on food sovereignty, GMOs, glyphosate, and the fate of Mexico’s iconic white-corn flatbread ...
May 15, 2024 · In late 2020, President Lopez-Obrador of Mexico signed a decree banning genetically modified (GM) corn and the use of herbicide glyphosate in the production of food for human consumption. At the time of writing, the current version of this presidential initiative identifies the effective date as January 31, 2024.
May 22, 2024 · With Mexico’s unscientific GM corn ban still in place for food, Canada and the U.S. have rightfully demanded that Mexico abide by the international risk management standards and other...
3 days ago · The types of GM crops have expanded to 32 species including potatoes, eggplants and apples. In 2019, 74 percent of soybeans, 31 percent of corn, and 79 percent of cotton grown around the world were genetically modified, Xie told Xinhua. GM crops are currently grown commercially in 71 countries and regions.
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May 3, 2024 · The 120-page US response, filed with a tribunal charged with arbitrating the trade dispute, said that Mexico has not shown that GM corn is likely to harm humans or native Mexican varieties of corn that are not genetically modified as Mexico has feared.
May 13, 2024 · The absence of any reference to, or discussion of, the dozens of credible, high-quality papers supporting points made in the Mexican submission, including several pointing to possible human food safety issues with genetically engineered (GE) corn, is strong evidence that the U.S. response is a political document, not a scientific one.”
2 days ago · Corn meal accounts for more than 60 percent of the average Mexican’s daily calories and protein, which is roughly 10 times the US average and puts Mexicans at 10 times the risk. A protest against U.S. biotech giant Monsanto (now Bayer) and the commercial use of genetically modified corn, at the Economy Ministry in Mexico City, on November 5 ...
