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Mexico Celebrates “Carnival of Corn” and Rejects Monsanto

Posted 04 June 2013 | By | Categories: Agriculture, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Mexico & Border | No Comments

Mexican activists responded to the global call for a day against Monsanto with a “Carnival of Corn” in Mexico City. Hundreds of mostly young people from political, social and environmental organizations and artists’ collectives held cultural events and paraded from the Palace of Fine Arts to the Monument to the Revolution with drummers, street theater, music, performance and dance. The most popular hash tag in the social networks was #FueraMonsanto (#MonsantoOut).

Monsanto Conquest Meets Aztec Resistance

Posted 14 February 2013 | By | Categories: Latin-American Affairs | 1 Comment

Monsanto has a map for conquering the world and Mexico is in the center of it. For nearly two decades the transnational corporation that manufactures the pesticides used across the planet has been trying to take over the global seed market with genetically modified (GM) seed. If successful, most of the food we grow and eat would have to be purchased annually as seed from Monsanto. The mutant plants would grow up addicted to Monsanto herbicides. Local varieties would disappear, and in their place standardized, genetically modified food–doused with chemicals–would fill supermarket shelves and corner stores.

Mexican Farmers Block New Law to Privatize Plants

Posted 19 May 2012 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Citizen Action, Mexico & Border | 3 Comments

Progressive small farmer organizations in Mexico scored a victory over transnational corporations that seek to monopolize seed and food patents.

The Birds and the Bees and the GMOs

Posted 18 October 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Citizen Action, Integration & Trade, Mexico & Border | 5 Comments

Honey produced by thousands of Mexican beekeepers is at serious risk of contamination from genetically modified soybeans. Producers have called for a new model of social production.

Agrotoxins Kill

Posted 18 October 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Citizen Action, Integration & Trade, Mexico & Border | No Comments

A beautiful green and gold checked carpet hides the tragedy of the Yaqui Valley. This northeastern region of Mexico has been devastated by intensive use of agrochemicals under a capitalist model of agriculture that has polluted the air, soil and water, and lethally affected the lives of its people for more than half a century.

Mexican Constitution Now Recognizes Right to Food

Posted 24 September 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Citizen Action, Indigenous People, Integration & Trade, Mexico & Border | 3 Comments

Although the right to food is now recognized in the Constitution, poverty, hunger and exclusion in the country have worsened to the point that to put the right to food in practice requires a radical transformation in the economic model.

Monsanto Uses Latest Food Crisis to Push Transgenic Corn in Mexico

Posted 28 March 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development | 6 Comments

Monsanto has turned the drop in international corn reserves and the havoc wreaked on Mexican corn production by an unexpected cold snap into an argument for speeding up commercial planting of its genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico. The transnational is claiming that its modified seeds are the only solution to scarcity and rising grain prices.