In late 2020, Mexico announced that the country would be phasing out the use of glyphosate herbicides, the cultivation of GMO corn, and the import of GMO corn for human consumption and livestock feed by the end of 2024. The reasons for the decree given by Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador are to protect the health of Mexico’s consumers and protect small-scale farmers, the environment, and the purity of Mexico’s native corn varieties.
The decree states, “With the objective of achieving self-sufficiency and food sovereignty, our country must be oriented towards establishing sustainable and culturally adequate agricultural production, through the use of agroecological practices and inputs that are safe for human health, the country’s biocultural diversity and the environment, as well as congruent with the agricultural traditions of Mexico.”
Bayer-Monsanto and Dow have since launched at least 43 lawsuits in Mexico attempting to overturn the presidential decree. Also, the GMO/chemical industry, fearing that Mexico will set a precedent for other countries to enact similar restrictions, are puppeteering agencies and officials within the U.S. government to pressure Mexico to abandon its plans. This is not the first time Bayer has forced our government to act on its behalf. In 2019, the corporation succeeded in using U.S. officials to pressure Thailand into reversing course on its ban on glyphosate.
President Biden’s U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Katherine Tai is being lobbied to bring dispute-settlement procedures against Mexico under the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA). In a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Senator Chuck Grassley urged Ambassador Tai to get her Mexican counterpart to reverse Mexico’s GMO corn and glyphosate bans. And industrial agriculture and chemical trade lobbies such as CropLife America, American Farm Bureau Federation and National Corn Growers Association have also been putting pressure on Ambassador Tai.
It seems Bayer has also found an ally in Mexico. On July 12, 2022, Mexico’s 6th Administrative District Judge, Francisco Javier Rebolledo, overturned Obrador’s 2020 presidential decree.
But the Obrador administration is not backing down despite threats and legal challenges. In a Reuters exclusive on October 27, 2022, Deputy Agriculture Minister Victor Suarez told Reuters that the country is considering direct agreements with farmers in the United States, Argentina and Brazil to secure non-GMO yellow corn imports. Suarez said he did not believe Mexico’s decree presented any violation of the USMCA, saying the country was “under no obligation to buy and grow GM corn.”
“We respect and care for (the trade pact), but the USMCA is not God, nor is it our constitution,” Suarez said.
According to the Organic & Non-GMO Report: While U.S. agribusiness groups are trying to pressure Mexico into abandoning their bans on glyphosate herbicide and imports of genetically modified corn by 2024, U.S. suppliers of non-GMO seed and grain see an opportunity to supply Mexico with non-GMO corn. “Could we supply Mexico? Absolutely,” says Bill Niebur, president of High Fidelity Genetics, an Iowa-based non-GMO corn seed company. “In terms of acres, it’s not a problem. Instead of criticizing Mexico, let’s provide it to them.”
The pressure on Mexico needs to stop. The USTR and other government agencies should not do the bidding of Bayer-Monsanto. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to force the toxic products of the GMO/chemical industry onto other nations.
Instead, our government should be investing resources to help our farmers produce what the rest of the world wants.
If Mexico wants non-GMO corn, let’s give it to them. If other countries want to ban glyphosate or other toxic products of the chemical industry, they have every right to do so. Americans do not want our government to be used by the GMO/chemical industry to bully the world. We are not the United States of Bayer-Monsanto.
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References:
Thailand’s reversal on glyphosate ban came after Bayer scripted U.S. intervention, documents show, USTRK.org, Sept 17, 2020
Revealed: Monsanto owner and US officials pressured Mexico to drop glyphosate ban, The Guardian, Feb 16, 2021
Mexico to ban glyphosate, GM corn: Presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, US authorities, Inter Press Service News, Feb 24, 2021
Stopping the Race to the Bottom in Trade Policy, The American Prospect, March 15, 2021
Rehabilitating protection and resituating trade agreements, The Hill, April 11, 2021
Mexico wants to import non-GMO corn, and U.S. grain suppliers say they can deliver it, The Organic & Non-GMO Report, May 14, 2021
Mexico: Presidential decree to eliminate glyphosate ruled unconstitutional, Justice Pesticides newsletter, September 2022
EXCLUSIVE Mexico to proceed with GMO corn ban, seeks international grain deals -official, Reuters. October 27, 2022
Enough is enough..stop the poison spread !
People should not be treated as Guinea pigs.
The EPA and FDA allows this because they are paid off. It is ALWAYS about money over human suffering! Stop the money, stop the BS!!
Sad that THE US doesn’t lead the way! Instead, we are being pumped with GMO Vaccines.
You’re 100%
No GMOs of any kind, anywhere. Stop trying to kill us with disease brought on by these chemicals.
YES. WE NEED TO BAN GMOS AND PESTICIDES WORLDWIDE. LET MEXICO LEAD THE WAY TO SOMETHI8NG THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE WORLDWIDE A LONG TIME AGO. PEOPLE DO NOT WANT POISON FOOD. WE NEED TO CHARGE THE MAKERS OF ALL GMOS AND PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES WITH CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY HARMING ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET WITH THEIR POISON FOOD,SOIL,AIR, AND WATER. IT IS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE HAD SOME SENSE AND DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT. TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION WORLD WIDE. WE NEED CLASS ACTION SUITS AGAINST THOSE COMPANIES THAT HAVE BEEN POISONING ALL OF US FOR YEARS. PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS ONCE AND FOR ALL.
The fact that much of the corn grown in the USA, was supposed to be used to make gasoline…Not for food! Healthy corn coming from Mexico, will help us both. It is so sad that the farmers went for ruining their soil so much, worms die. The very thing that makes soil! Worm casings. Also the minerals are depleted by toxic sprays.
Stop the poison spread.
Stop poisoning poorer countries!
No more GMO’S!! No more HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!! No MORE POISONOUS SWEETNERS OR CHEMICALS OF ANY KIND!! Stop the heard thinning!!
you are nothing but latter day pirates
Allow each country to make their own decisions. Mexico doesn’t want the poison, leave them be!
This is not about the individual countries, it goes much deeper than that: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/10/no_author/the-dark-origins-of-the-davos-great-reset/ or try this link; https://youtu.be/6G3nWyoQ5CQ
When $$$ talks the Horse $HIT walks!!!
We are ALL in this TOGETHER – Stand united, kick them in their pocketbooks.
We are the only country that ALLOWS all of these toxins. Other countries ban it. They are not financially corrupt like the FDA, EPA, are!
I agree
I live in Ohio USA and don’t want GMO corn, either.
In late 2020, Mexico announced that the country would be phasing out the use of glyphosate herbicides, the cultivation of GMO corn, and the import of GMO corn for human consumption and livestock feed by the end of 2024. Yet Bayer-Monsanto and Dow are suing Mexico to push their poisonous products into Mexico by trying to force a sovereign country to bend to their will. And they are doing so with the help of the US government. B-M and Dow and our government agencies must stop harassing Mexico in its pursuit of independence from B-M and Dow’s poisonous products.
Absolutely NO GMO corn or anything else!!!!!
Absolutely!
Mexico is setting a good example for the world to emulate.
It is critically important to keep Mexico’s rich and genetically diverse treasure, their corn, free of contamination by GM varieties.
Republiklans are traitors racists fascists that promote greed and death.
OMG! Such an increasingly unhealthy planet and inhabitants!!! GET RID OF ALL POISONS AND GMO asap!!!!
I agree
TOTALLY TRUE!!
We need to get rid of this in our own country, and the people who are pushing this should be in jail. And anyone that tries to pressure another country and poisoning their citizens a country that shows more regard for health and welfare of those citizens in the United States does, those people should be in jail. I am so sick of all of you.
stop putting profits over the health and environment of all of our people and the planet
Stop infusing deadly chemicals in our food.
Thank you Mexico for doing the right thing. The USA must stop this bullying right now- who do we think we are?
Keep fighting the good fight. Setting examples for the rest of the world. All of this nonsense needs to stop.
GMO corn and other products shouldn’t be anywhere.
The companies pushing GMO’s are morally corrupt and care little for your health or the health of the land.
GMO’s have long been a source of destruction across the globe. I pray that the US will follow Mexico’s policy as soon as those who are in power, and financially benefiting from corporate greed, will realize they are supposed to support the people of this country and reject GMO’s!
The companies pushing GMO’s are morally corrupt and care little for your health or the health of the land.
Bayer-Monsanto is as usual a company where profits are more important than saving lives.
They should not be catered too.
Yes Bayer-Monsanto does not care about the health of any human or animal.These evil corrupt pigs only care about $$$ .I pray karma catches up to them.They should all be in jail.
Natural is better, if they don’t want don’t force it
Stop the Monanto poisoning of the world!!
The 19 countries in the European Union has banned GMOs. Why? Look at the rate if obesity and disease in America compared to countries where they are banned. America receives much if it’s produce from Mexico. Mexico should also not have GMOs.
This would be only good for Bayer. NOT for people. Mal para la gente.
Let the farmers plant what they want
Wish we could ban it too.
No GMOs. Remember the law of unforeseen consequences.
NO GMO!
The United States government partnering in this or any other crime is unacceptable.
No to GMO!
NO GMO’S!!!!!
We need to stop poisoning our food!
The Mexican people deserve protection from corporate greed!
I live in Texas and am opposed to any U.S. support or pressure on Mexico – and any other country for that matter – which wants to ban the use of pesticides and herbicides widely considered dangerous. It’s their decision – not ours, and they have every right to decide what chemicals can be used in agriculture in their country.
Instead of pressuring other countries to use dangerous chemical pesticides and herbicides we should mind our own business and insist on a ban of them in the US.
They have no place on our planet.
GMO’s should be stopped worldwide
I find it disgusting that companies like Bayer-Monsanto are allowed to do business as For-Profit-Poisoners. Our elected representatives are to blame for protecting corporate interests over consumer safety and they should be publicly shamed for their collusion.
Greed and profits are going to be our ruination if we don’t take the obviously wise path and support the ban on poisons everywhere on our precious mother earth.
I find it disgusting that companies like Bayer-Monsanto are allowed to do business as For-Profit-Poisoners. Our elected representatives are to blame for protecting corporate interests over consumer safety and they should be publicly shamed for their collusion.
It is time to stop poisoning the world!!
Stop putting profits over peoples’ and our planet’s heath!
We are not the United States of Bayer-Monsanto. Mexico is an independent country. How dare Bayer-Monsanto bully any country to use their poison products! My hat is off to the country and people of Mexico who do not want to ruin their food supply nor ruin their land with these harmful products. I thank the people and the Government of Mexico for standing up to these big cororate bullies.
I live in North Carolina and I hate that GMO products are being slipped onto store shelves with labeling in almost hidden places that are disclosing *contains a GMO product. I am getting ready to wage my own war on such products.
I think it’s great that Mexico doesn’t want GMO corn or other GMO crops. Europe doesn’t allow
GMO crops and the United States shouldn’t either. But we definitely need to support Mexico in its choice. Monsanto and Bayer are bullies and don’t care about life or the environment. It’s time to put moral values ahead of large corporations and money.
I myself have been fighting and griping at Monsanto since Basic Training. They polluted and poisoned Fort McClellan, at Anniston Alabama so bad you still cannot walk on the property.
Any country that doesn’t want their poisons should have a say in this.
I highly commend Mexico for taking this stand.
toxic poison, toxic agenda, toxic malevolence
No GMO corn.
Eat GMO corn and you may become GMO.
People who took the mRNA shots have become GMO.
Not necessary and could have many consequences. Not worth the risk.
NO GMO!!
NO to GMO forever !!
Mexico needs to ban the toxic GMO “vaccines” first.
NO GMO!!!
No GMO please!
All the increase diseace are show something.
GMO IS NOT HEALTHY!
The nutricional tablette from GMO and ORGANICs are also different.
No hay alta nutrición en los GMO, hay determinados elementos MicroDivinos que NO EXISTEN en los GMO y que sí están presentes en su version organica. Los productores no estaban informados al respecto. Creian en la “equivalencia sustancial” pero esa equivalencia no existe.
Producir GMO, es producir caro, por lo que implica el valor agregado de la semilla y el “paquete tecnologico” y producir de mala calidad, porque no ofrecen los mismos nutrientes que los organicos.
Asi, que Detengan el cultivo de GMO Maiz en Mexico!
Good for Mexico! Maybe someday it will be banned everywhere
I’m learning Spanish as I’m proud of you saying no to Monsanto.
The EU has banned 464 dangerous chemicals, the USA has banned only 21 chemicals. Why? Chemicals cause many health problems like birth defects or premature births, respiratory illnesses like asthma and many cancers. It is time to decrease our use of all chemicals!
No GMO in Mexico OR ANYWHERE ELSE
Many many years ago World Trade Organization conference in Cancun Mexico COLLAPSED and was shut down several days before scheduled because millions of Mexicans vehemntly protested GMO corn being brought into Mexico.
To Mexicans maize is a sacred, holy food deeply rooted in Mayan, Aztec, Toltec, Olmec and Nahual culture. THEY DO NOT WANT GMO corn and view it as sacreligious and anti-human.
Even the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome issued a Papal Bull administrative ruling insisting that GMO food and livestock VIOLATES NATURAL LAW and all the teachings of the Christian Church.
Placing animal genes inside plant genes is HIDEOUS.
GMO was legalized in the USA in 1990. Massive lies it would “Solve World Hunger” BALONEY
Now it is 2022 and 32 years later World has increased exponentially and ALSO GMO has caused famine, crop failure and egregious harm to many nations. The entire cacao chocolate bean industry in Indonesia was DESTROYED about 10 years ago because Monsanto Bayer forcibly brought in GMO cacao trees which created massive blight and KILLED ALL cacao trees in Indonesia. Complete medial censorship world wide. I was at Food Tank conference in Sacramento about 4 years ago and ASKED during Q&A with a slick Monsanto executive about the destruction of the entire Indonesian cacaco industry and I WAS PHYSICALLY KICKED OUT OF THE CONVENTION CENTER BY THREE GOONS WHO COMMITTED FELONY BATTERY AGAISNT ME.
ALl I did was exercise my First Ammendment Rights of freedom of speech and asked a cogent well reasoned question and Monsanto thugs physically assaulted me.
Foodtank is a dubious GreenWashed NGO funded by GMO and junk food manufacturers whilst promoting themselves as “sustainable” and “Vegan Plant Based” BULLSHIT.
NOBDY wants GMO
It has NOT “solved world hunger”
In the 32 years GMO has been legal in the USA and other parts of the world WORLD HUNGER HAS INCREASED MANY 100s of times with global famine in every nation where GMO was forced down the throat of Third World Nations.
WHy should farmers and ranchers PAY ROYALTIES FOR LIFE just to plant seeds which were GMO tweaked by biotechnology? Seeds are the source of life and belong to The Commons and NOT to some crypto-fascist, Orwellian hegemonic, trans national corporate cartel.
ENOUGH !!!
Put an end to this crap now.
Thank you Green America for stepping up and demanding that Mexico stop using the pesticides permanently!!!
Coodos!!!
Thank you!!!
they’re not against corn (the developed corn), Secy. Vilsac JUST GMO CORN! JUST LIKE ME! LET’S GET RID OF IT!
GMO/GE foods, vegetables, meats, grains, are delivering poisons to the plates of people all over the world, and thos poisons that GMO/GE foods are drenched in, are a slow sickness, then death to the people who eat them.
Why should we force Mexico to do anything they are not willing to do? We shouldn’t. If they are smart enough to choose health then we should look to ourselves for an attitude change, not our neighbors.
The poisons put on farm products are expensive. It doesn’t improve yield and it destroys soil so that there will be fewer and fewer areas in which to grow healthy food. It gets in our water. The poison sprays linger in the air and fall down on us in the rain. It gets in our lungs, our digestive tracts, on our skin, and crosses into our brains. It does NOT make us smarter. It makes us foggy in our thoughts, causes insomnia, and along with cancer and non hodgkins lymphoma, plus a plethora of other diseases, it makes us sick, and death comes earlier than expected.
Why use GMO/GE products? No good reason at all.
GMO/GE foods, vegetables, meats, grains, are delivering poisons to the plates of people all over the world, and those poisons that GMO/GE foods are drenched in, are a slow sickness, then death to the people who eat them.
Why should we force Mexico to do anything they are not willing to do? We shouldn’t. If they are smart enough to choose health then we should look to ourselves for an attitude change, not our neighbors.
The poisons put on farm products are expensive. It doesn’t improve yield and it destroys soil so that there will be fewer and fewer areas in which to grow healthy food. It gets in our water. The poison sprays linger in the air and fall down on us in the rain. It gets in our lungs, our digestive tracts, on our skin, and crosses into our brains. It does NOT make us smarter. It makes us foggy in our thoughts, causes insomnia, and along with cancer and non hodgkins lymphoma, plus a plethora of other diseases, it makes us sick, and death comes earlier than expected.
Why use GMO/GE products? No good reason at all.
BAN FRANKEN FOOD! WE THE PEOPLE DO NOT THAT TOXIC GARBAGE!