22/10/2021
Mexico’s Supreme Court Gives Bayer-Monsanto a Punch to the Gut: Bayer/Monsanto suffered another in a long string of setbacks in its battle to grow genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico when the country’s highest court this week refused to overturn a precautionary injunction restricting the cultivation of GM corn. In its unanimous decision, the court agreed with the citizen petitioners who sought the injunction in 2013 that cultivation of GM corn poses a credible threat to Mexico’s rich store of native corn biodiversity through uncontrolled cross-pollination. With the Supreme Court decision, the companies added to a losing streak that has included more than 100 rejected appeals seeking to overturn the GM corn injunction. Their biggest loss, however, may have been the withdrawal of support from the Mexican government. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, elected in 2018, has sided with the people over Bayer-Monsanto and the GMO industry by supporting the injunction as well as issuing a presidential decree mandating the phasing out of GM corn imports and the use of glyphosate herbicides.
If only we had a government that listened to the majority its people in the U.S.!
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